Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Reveals the Horrifying Truth Behind the Seeds of Destruction – And It Is Surprisingly Familiar

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The fan-favorite crew from Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is staring down a whole new kind of interstellar threat, and it is eerily familiar to another monstrous menace.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds — The Seeds of Salvation #2 (by Robbie Thompson, Travis Mercer, JP Jordan, and Jodie Troutman) follows a trek into the watery depths of the planet Poilant in search of a missing team of Starfleet researchers. Chapel, Spock, La'An, Scotty and D6 find themselves poring over ominous sigils as a nefarious force plots against them from the shadows. Unfortunately, that nefarious force has taken hold of Chapel's friend and fellow scientist, Jinare. Worse still, Jinare's horrifying transformation is just the beginning of what Star Trek's latest plant zombies have in store for the galaxy.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds — The Seeds of Salvation #2

Written by ROBBIE THOMPSON
Art by TRAVIS MERCER
Colors by JP JORDAN
Letters by JODIE TROUTMAN
Design by NEIL UYETAKE
Main cover art by TRAVIS MERCER
Variant covers by SKYLAR PARTIDGE and TRAVIS MERCER

Spun out of the events of the hit Star Trek: Strange New Worlds television series, The Seeds of Salvation from IDW Publishing finds the leading scientists of the USS Enterprise embarking upon a whole new kind of harrowing adventure. When Chapel's old friend Jinare offers her the opportunity to explore and research Poilant, she leaps at the opportunity, only for Jinare and her entire team to go missing before the Enterprise can catch up with them. What ensues is an encounter with a new breed of horror, one intent on spreading its influence throughout the cosmos.

The official solicit synopsis for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds — Seeds of Salvation #2 from IDW Publishing reads, "Now deep under the ice-crusted surface of the planet Poilant in search of a missing team of Starfleet researchers, Una, Chapel, La’An, Spock, Scotty, and D6 discover a mysterious alien temple. It’s covered in vines and the tech on the crew’s submersible is showing the researchers are inside — but before they can investigate further, a new enigma appears... and this one’s got tentacles!"

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds — Seeds of Salvation is just one of several new Star Trek series from IDW Publishing. Readers can also dive into their favorite sci-fi setting in the pages of Star Trek: Voyager - Homecoming by Susan and Tilly Bridges and Ángel Hernandez, Star Trek: Red Shirts by Christopher Cantwell and Megan Levens, and Star Trek: The Last Starship by Jackson Lanzing & Collin Kelly and Adrián Bonilla. While all of these series have something to offer, The Last Starship has been the subject of particular interest for marking the return of Captain James T. Kirk (as modeled after original Star Trek star William Shatner) to the world of comics.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds — The Seeds of Salvation #2 is on sale now from IDW Publishing.