Just in time for next Black History Month, ‘Star Trek’ is doing another what-if comic that takes Uhura back to the Civil Rights Movement.
In 2017, IDW released Star Trek: Deviations, a one-shot that explored what would’ve happened if the Romulans made first contact with Earth instead of the Vulcans. For its next alt-history outing, the Deviations line is focusing on the original Enterprise‘s comms officer and translator, Nyota Uhura.
Written by Stephanie Williams (Nubia & the Amazons) and drawn by Greg Maldonado and Anthony Fowler Jr., the Threads of Destiny one-shot puts a different spin on the Original Series episode “The City on the Edge of Forever.” Instead of Kirk, Spock, and McCoy using the Guardian of Forever to travel through time, it’s Uhura, and it puts her in 1963 during the Civil Rights movement.
