Review: Star Trek: Countdown #4 — Spock

General Worf's fleet appears to comprise K'Vort-class ships. These larger Birds-of-Prey are likelier to challenge the mammoth Narada than the smaller B'rel-class. Of course, since both sizes are virtually identical, and because scale is impossible to determine in these animated panels, the fleet may comprise both classes.

When the Klingon armada begins its attack, the Narada engages its cloaking shields — and is still able to fire its weapons. Normally, in the Star Trek universe, cloaked vessels can't do that. However, General Worf immediately declares, "They must have stolen that trick from us!" He's referring to General Chang's prototype Bird-of-Prey from Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, because it, too, could fire weapons while cloaked. However, all the technical schematics for this "trick" must have been lost when the Starships Enterprise-A and Excelsior destroyed that Bird-of-Prey. Awfully convenient, wouldn't you say?

Nero demands that Worf shuttle over to the Narada and surrender in person. Why not use the transporter? Well, because it wouldn't serve the plot, which is for other Klingons to board the Narada with Worf and attempt to take the ship. Surely, Nero would have considered this course of action from Worf, but as he asserted to Ayel in the last chapter, Nero believes his miners are ready to be soldiers and deal with what's to come.

Anyhow, Worf's shuttle looks like a Toron-class shuttlepod, which the Klingon smuggler Koral used in TNG's "Gambit, Part II."

During the Klingons' raid on the Narada, one of the Romulans can be seen fighting with a dagger like Shinzon's from Star Trek Nemesis.

On Vulcan, Geordi encrypts the Jellyfish's controls with a voice activation lock that will respond only to "Spock." This includes Ambassador Spock (Prime) and young Spock in the Star Trek movie, when he commandeers the Jellyfish from the Narada's hold.

During her shooting match with the Narada, the Enterprise suffers damage from Levels 1 through 26. This is another clue in our Star Trek: Countdown quest to find out "which" Enterprise this is. In Star Trek Nemesis, the Enterprise-E had at least 29 decks, so she's still in the running.

And the final panel of this four-part prequel to the Star Trek movie reveals … none other than "U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-E." Yay … what a happy ending. Now I can finally move on and reveal my scintillating observations from the Star Trek movie itself. Y'all c'mon back now, y'hear?