Changes: After Darkness, Part 2

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"After Darkness, Part 2" was the twenty-second issue of IDW Publishing's ongoing series of Star Trek comics, published in June 2013. Colors and lettering were done by Stellar Labs. This comic was edited by Scott Dunbier, with Roberto Orci credited as the story consultant.

Summary

: After the events of Star Trek Into Darkness, the U.S.S. Enterprise embarks on a five-year mission to explore uncharted space. But when Commander Spock experiences the onset of the Vulcan condition known as Pon Farr, the Enterprise changes course arrives at the colony of New Vulcan, in the hope that a cure for Spock's fever can be found there. Meanwhile, agents of the secretive Section 31 petition the Romulan senate to join them in destroying the Klingon Empire. But the Klingons have plans of their own...

On Romulus, two senators discuss their alliance with Section 31. The humans are doubtlessly planning to betray them, as the Romulans are planning to do the humans but the elder notes the Romulans have something the humans desperately want. Something that makes for an excellent insurance policy against them.

On New Vulcan, Spock and T'Pring explain pon farr to an incesnsed Nyota Uhura. Pon farr is not a simple physical bond, it exists on a psyhic level that cannot be explained in human terminology. Spock and T'Pring were bonded at the age of 7 but Spock severed their bond when the departed for Starfleet Academy. Though he had believed that would end any ties he had to T'Pring, recent events have proven that belief unfounded. Spock then convulses and is taken away by other Vulcans. Sarek explains to Kirk more about pon farr and that modern medicine cannot help his son, encouraging Kirk to return to his ship. Though Kirk believes the elder Spock could be of aid, Spock the Elder has left New Vulcan on a mission of an undisclosed nature.

Back aboard the USS Enterprise, Kirk and McCoy discuss Spock. McCoy wants to beam Spock aboard and treat him but Kirk points out that McCoy's treatments were ineffective. Right now, Sarek is the best hope for Spock. Kirk then visits Uhura and tries to comfort her only to be cut off. Uhura knew this day was coming. While she was unaware of pon farr, she knew Spock settled on Earth to embrace his human half with the unspoken fact that he was fleeing his Vulcan heritage. But Spock had never fully let Uhura in, hiding aspects of his Vulcan heritage and Uhura knew that, one day, one of those aspects would call him back home.

The Enterprise is then hailed by T'Pring who brings troubled tidings. As Spock was being prepped in the ret dator, the blood fever reached its speak and he overpowered his guards in a primal rage. Though Kirk is ready to beam down medical parties to aid the injured and find Spock, T'Pring postulates Spock is no longer in the city. Rather he has run off to join the Sasaud, a term meaning "vanished" in the Vulcan language. The Sasaud were unable to cope with the loss of Vulcan in a logical manner and reverted to a state reminiscent of their ancestors of the pre-Surak era. Kirk preps to beam down to find Spock but T'Pring offers a final warning. Mating is only one of two ways to alleviate the blood fever. The other is through extreme violence.

In the chaotic wilderness of New Vulcan, a primal and disoriented Spock flashes back to the volcano of Nibiru. Kirk, Uhura, Sulu and Kai beam down to the hellish landscape where they are beset upon by the primal Vulcans with Spock at the head.

On the bridge of a Klingon warship, the Commander Kor orders his fleet to rendezvous to prepare for an assault. Though a subordinate believes further testing of the new technologies is required, Kor is unconcerned. The new Klingon ships have been augmented by the Narada's technology. And whatever their enemies have will be insufficient.

To be continued...

References

Shipboard locations

bridge
Referenced only: sickbay

Races and cultures

Human • Klingon • Romulan • Vulcan

States and organizations

Sasaud
Referenced only: Section 31 • Starfleet • Starfleet Academy

Ranks and titles

captain • chief medical officer • commander • doctor • first officer • lieutenant • officer • senator • son

Science and technology

kilometer • medicine • phaser • red matter • warp drive

Other references

colony • death • emotion • fleet • The Great Awakening • logic • love • Plak tow • Pon farr • ret dator • transport • tunic • union • volcano • Vulcan

Appendices

Background

The only title information given is on the cover, with the phrase After Darkness. The Part 2 is taken from solicitation information.

Images

Cover gallery

Connections

Stories set in the Kelvin timeline
comics	When Worlds Collide: Spock Confronts the Ultimate Challenge • Nero (1 • 2 • 3 • 4) • Starfleet Academy (1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5) • Star Trek Movie Adaptation (1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6) • IDW Star Trek: Volume 1 (Where No Man Has Gone Before: 1, 2 • The Galileo Seven: 1, 2) • Volume 2 (Operation: Annihilate: 1, 2 • Vulcan's Vengeance: 1, 2) • Volume 3 (The Return of the Archons: 1, 2 • The Truth About Tribbles: 1, 2) • Volume 4 (13 • 14 • Mirrored: 1, 2) • Volume 5 (17 • 18 • 19 • 20) • Countdown to Darkness (1 • 2 • 3 • 4) • Volume 6 (After Darkness: 1, 2, 3 • 24) • Volume 7: The Khitomer Conflict (1 • 2 • 3 • 4) • Khan (1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5) • Volume 8 (Parallel Lives: 1, 2 • I, Enterprise!: 1, 2 • Lost Apollo: 1, 2) • Volume 9: The Q Gambit (1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6) • Volume 10 (Behemoth: 1, 2 • Eurydice: 1, 2, 3 • Volume 11 (The Tholian Webs: 1, 2 • Deity: 1 • 2 • Flesh & Stone) • The Spectrum War (1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6) • Volume 12 (Live Evil: 1 • 2 • 3 • Reunion: 1 • 2) • Volume 13 (Legacy of Spock: 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • Connection: 1 • 2) • Manifest Destiny (1 • 2 • 3 • 4) • Stranger Worlds (1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6) • Boldly Go: Volume 1 (1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6) • Volume 2 (7 • 8 • 9 • 10 • 11 • 12) • Volume 3: IDIC (1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6)
novels	Star Trek • Starfleet Academy (The Delta Anomaly • The Edge • The Gemini Agent • The Assassination Game) • Into Darkness • The Unsettling Stars • More Beautiful Than Death
video games	Delta Vega: Meltdown on the Ice Planet • Academy Trainer • Cadet Training Facility • D-A-C • Race to Destiny • The Mobile Game • Star Trek • Rivals • Dark Remnant
board games	Expeditions	live-action shorts	Transporter Commercial • Brilliant Enterprise Commercial • Collision insurance commercial • Bold Explorers
websites	Starfleet Shipyard • Dossiers • Experience The Enterprise	apps	Star Trek App
prequels in original timeline	Countdown (1 • 2 • 3 • 4)

previous comic: After Darkness, Part 1	The Original Series (IDW series)	next comic: After Darkness, Part 3

External Links

After Darkness, Part 2 article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
And the Star Trek After Darkness Saga Continues at StarTrek.com, the official Star Trek website

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 ==Summary==
+; '' '' : ''After the events of ''[[Star Trek Into Darkness]]'', the ''[[USS Enterprise (Kelvin timeline NCC-1701) personnel roster|U.S.S. Enterprise]]'' embarks on a five-year mission to explore uncharted space. But when Commander Spock experiences the onset of the Vulcan condition known as ''Pon Farr'', the ''Enterprise'' changes course arrives at the colony of New Vulcan, in the hope that a cure for Spock's fever can be found there. Meanwhile, agents of the secretive ''Section 31'' petition the Romulan senate to join them in destroying the Klingon Empire. But the Klingons have plans of their own...''
-On Romulus, the senator does not trust Section 31. The senator has figured that the humans are after the Red Matter.
+On [[Romulus]], two senators discuss their alliance with [[Section 31]]. The [[human|humans]] are doubtlessly planning to betray them, as the [[Romulan|Romulans]] are planning to do the humans but the elder notes the Romulans have something the humans desperately want. [[Red matter|Something]] that makes for an excellent insurance policy against them.
-On New Vulcan, Spock explains that pon farr is caused when Vulcans are bound to each other for possible marriage. This union remains unbroken until death. He and T'Pring had been bonded since childhood, but they broke up. Then, there is trouble. Spock has a pain and goes into a coma. Sarek then informs Kirk that Spock Prime has left, and he does not know where he is.
+On New Vulcan, {{kt|Spock}} and {{kt|T'Pring}} explain pon farr to an incesnsed {{kt|Nyota Uhura}}. ''[[Pon farr]]'' is not a simple physical bond, it exists on a psyhic level that cannot be explained in human terminology. Spock and T'Pring were bonded at the age of 7 but Spock severed their bond when the departed for [[Starfleet Academy]]. Though he had believed that would end any ties he had to T'Pring, recent events have proven that belief unfounded. Spock then convulses and is taken away by other Vulcans. {{kt|Sarek}} explains to {{kt|James T. Kirk|Kirk}} more about ''pon farr'' and that modern medicine cannot help his son, encouraging Kirk to return to his ship. Though Kirk believes the elder [[Spock]] could be of aid, Spock the Elder has left New Vulcan on a mission of an undisclosed nature.
-On the ''Enterprise'', McCoy is cross because Sarek and T'Pring would not let him help.  Kirk is letting Spock go. After arguing with Dr. McCoy, Captain Kirk goes to see Uhura who is sad that Spock has to do this. Kirk and Uhura talk about Spock. Then, there is trouble. T'Pring contacts the ''Enterprise''. Spock is in trouble. The blood fever that he was going through has driven him insane. T'Pring is worried that Spock is with a group of Vulcans called the Sasaud who have gone over-emotional. Kirk decides to help them get back to civilization and logic. Kirk and Uhura beam down and see that Spock and the others have gone insane.
+Back aboard the {{USS|Enterprise|Kelvin timeline NCC-1701}}, Kirk and {{kt|Leonard McCoy|McCoy}} discuss Spock. McCoy wants to beam Spock aboard and treat him but Kirk points out that McCoy's treatments were ineffective. Right now, Sarek is the best hope for Spock. Kirk then visits Uhura and tries to comfort her only to be cut off. Uhura knew this day was coming. While she was unaware of ''pon farr'', she knew Spock settled on [[Earth]] to embrace his [[human]] half with the unspoken fact that he was fleeing his Vulcan heritage. But Spock had never fully let Uhura in, hiding aspects of his Vulcan heritage and Uhura knew that, one day, one of those aspects would call him back home.
-On a D7-class battlecruiser, Commander Kor has come up with a plan for a surprise attack on the Federation. Little do they know that they are about to be attacked by a fleet of Romulan ''Centurion-class'' flagships.
+The ''Enterprise'' is then hailed by T'Pring who brings troubled tidings. As Spock was being prepped in the ''[[ret dator]]'', the blood fever reached its speak and he overpowered his guards in a primal rage. Though Kirk is ready to beam down medical parties to aid the injured and find Spock, T'Pring postulates Spock is no longer in the city. Rather he has run off to join the [[Sasaud]], a term meaning "vanished" in the [[Vulcan language]]. The Sasaud were unable to cope with the loss of {{Planet|Vulcan}} in a logical manner and reverted to a state reminiscent of their ancestors of the pre-[[Surak]] era. Kirk preps to beam down to find Spock but T'Pring offers a final warning. Mating is only one of two ways to alleviate the blood fever. The other is through extreme violence.
+In the chaotic wilderness of New Vulcan, a primal and disoriented Spock flashes back to the volcano of [[Nibiru]]. Kirk, Uhura, {{kt|Hikaru Sulu|Sulu}} and Kai beam down to the hellish landscape where they are beset upon by the primal Vulcans with Spock at the head.
+On the bridge of a [[Klingon]] warship, the Commander {{kt|Kor, son of Rynar|Kor}} orders his fleet to rendezvous to prepare for an assault. Though a subordinate believes further testing of the new technologies is required, Kor is unconcerned. The new Klingon ships have been augmented by the ''[[Narada]]''<nowiki/>'s technology. And whatever their enemies have will be insufficient.
 [[After Darkness, Part 3|To be continued...]]
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 ==References==
 ===Characters===
-:{{ar|Spock}} • [[Romulan]] [[senator]] • unknown Romulan • {{ar|Nyota Uhura}} • {{ar|Leonard McCoy}} • {{ar|James T. Kirk}} • {{ar|Carol Marcus}} • unknown [[Vulcan]] • unknown Vulcan • {{ar|T'Pring}} • {{ar|Sarek}} • [[Spock|older Spock]] • {{ar|Pavel Chekov}} • {{ar|Hikaru Sulu}} • unknown Vulcan • unknown Vulcan • {{ar|Kor}} • [[Sasaud]] • Sasaud • Sasaud • Sasaud • Sasaud • Sasaud • Sasaud • Sasaud • [[Klingon]] officer • Klingon officer • Klingon officer
+:{{kt|Pavel Chekov}} • {{kt|James T. Kirk}} • {{kt|Kor, son of Rynar}} • {{kt|Carol Marcus}} • {{kt|Leonard McCoy}} • {{kt|Sarek}} • {{kt|Spock}} • [[Spock|Spock Prime]] • {{kt|Hikaru Sulu}} • {{kt|T'Pring}} • {{kt|Nyota Uhura}} • [[unnamed Klingons]] • [[unnamed Romulans]] • [[unnamed Vulcans]]
+{{ref}} [[Surak]]
-{{ref}}[[Surak]]
 ===Starships and vehicles===
-:{{ar|USS Enterprise}}
+:{{USS|Enterprise|Kelvin timeline NCC-1701}}
 ===Locations===
-:[[Earth]] • [[Romulus]] • [[New Vulcan]]
+:[[Earth]] • [[New Vulcan]] • [[Romulus]]
+{{ref}} [[Nibiru]] • {{planet|Vulcan}}
+====Shipboard locations====
-{{ref}}[[Vulcan (planet)|Vulcan]] • [[Nibiru]]
-===Shipboard locations===
 :[[bridge]]
+{{ref}} [[sickbay]]
-{{ref}}[[sickbay]]
 ===Races and cultures===
-:[[Humans]] • [[Romulan]] • [[Klingon]] • [[Vulcan]] • [[Sasaud]]
+:[[Human]] • [[Klingon]] • [[Romulan]] • [[Vulcan]]
 ===States and organizations===
+:''[[Sasaud]]''
-:{{Ref}}[[Section 31]] • [[Starfleet Academy]] • [[Starfleet]]
+:{{ref}} [[Section 31]] • [[Starfleet]] • [[Starfleet Academy]]
 ===Ranks and titles===
-:[[Senator]] • [[lieutenant]] • [[captain]] • [[doctor]] • [[first officer]] • [[son]] • [[chief medical officer]] • [[officer]] • [[commander]]
+:[[captain]] • [[chief medical officer]] • [[commander]] • [[doctor]] • [[first officer]] • [[lieutenant]] • [[officer]] • [[senator]] • [[son]]
 ===Science and technology===
-:[[Red matter]] • [[phaser]] • [[warp drive]] • [[medicine]]
+:[[kilometer]] • [[medicine]] • [[phaser]] • [[red matter]] • [[warp drive]]
-===Other===
+===Other references===
-:[[death]] • [[union]] • [[Pon farr]] • [[Plak tow]] • {{dis|Vulcan|language}} • [[colony]] • [[logic]] • [[love]] • [[ret dator]] • [[tunic]] • [[The Great Awakening]] • [[emotion]] • [[kilometer]] • [[volcano]] • [[fleet]]
+:[[colony]] • [[death]] • [[emotion]] • [[fleet]] • [[The Great Awakening]] • [[logic]] • [[love]] • [[Plak tow]] • [[Pon farr]] • [[ret dator]] • [[transport]] • [[tunic]] • [[union]] • [[volcano]] • [[Vulcan language|Vulcan]]
-{{ref}}[[sickbay]] • [[transport]]
 ==Appendices==
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 *{{m|TOS|Star Trek Into Darkness}} - The Klingons are still reacting to the events of Star Trek Into Darkness.
 *{{c|TOS|After Darkness, Part 1}} - This issue is a continuation of the previous issue.
-*{{g|TOS|D-A-C}} - The Romulan ''[[Centurion class (flagship)|Centurion-class]]'' flagship appears at the end.
+===Images===
+====Cover gallery====
+<gallery>
+file:iDW Star Trek, Issue 22.jpg|Regular Cover
+IDW TOS 22 Sketch cover.jpg|Sketch Variant
+IDW TOS 22 Photo cover.jpg|Photo Cover Variant
+</gallery>
 ===Connections===
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 }}
 {{end box}}
+===External Links===
+* {{Memoryalpha}}
+* {{Startrek.com|and-the-star-trek-after-darkness-saga-continues|And the Star Trek After Darkness Saga Continues|article}}
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