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Double Trouble
IDW brings Star Trek: The Motion Picture to comics in Star Trek: Echoes
THERE’S SOMETHING very familiar about the antagonists in Star Trek: Echoes, IDW’s new five-parter, which takes place just after 1979’s Star Trek: The Motion Picture. That’s because the criminal mastermind and the bounty hunter pursuing them, who arrive from an alternate dimension, turn out to be spitting images of members of the Enterprise crew.
“Certainly, on its surface, we’re making reference to the fact that we’re meeting doppelgängers – specifically of Uhura and Chekov,” says writer Marc Guggenheim of the title. “But we’re also echoing the past by referencing the episode ‘Mirror, Mirror’, and I even have plans to echo the future in the fifth and final issue.”