"The End" Week: Star Trek #60!

Sixty issues would be five years for a monthly comic, so I guess their five-year mission was over? From 2016, Star Trek #60, "Connection, part 2 of 2" Written by Mike Johnson, art by Tony Shasteen.

This was IDW's "Kelvin" continuity comic, or the one based on the last two or three movies. (Three: Star Trek Beyond was probably still in theaters when this issue came out. I really liked that one...) Today, a space anomaly is causing the main crew of young movie Enterprise to swap minds with classic original series Enterprise. Despite the swaps, the crews on both ships work to solve the problem, free the living anomaly, and get back where they should be. There's no deep reason for it, it's just fun.

Movie Uhura has to ask if her counterpart gave Spock the eye; and maybe isn't completely convinced when he says it wasn't like that. Classic Kirk has a bit of fun with Bones, ribbing him that his counterpart was in great shape. (I was going to say "and significantly younger," but DeForest Kelley was in his late forties when the original series filmed, and Karl Urban was maybe 44 in the last movie.) Both Kirks are left with some data from the other's universe, which they mark as classified...but still peek at. 

Sadly, the issue closes with a tribute to Anton Yelchin, who played Chekov; he had been killed in an accident in June 2016.