In Brightest Day, in Blackest Night, no evil shall boldly go where no one has gone before! As soon as Kilowog figures out which button to push.
Star Trek/Green Lantern is a Crossover comic between Star Trek (IDW) and Green Lantern. Published by DC Comics and IDW Publishing, the series takes place in the "Kelvin Timeline" continuity of Trek started by Star Trek (2009). While the U.S.S. Enterprise is in the process of exploring a mysterious planet that appeared out of nowhere, the crew finds a handful of colored rings lying near the skeleton of an unknown alien. But as Scotty tries to examine the rings, they activate, seeking out those worthy enough to wield them. As friend and foe alike are granted powers beyond their wildest dreams, Captain Kirk and co. meet a man who can fly in space—Hal Jordan. It turns out his universe was destroyed by a second Blackest Night, and he and his fellow surviving lanterns have been transported to the Kelvin Timeline as a last desperate attempt to keep the light going. But as light survives, death is sure to follow, and now Kirk and Hal have to combine forces to stop Nekron before he unleashes another Zombie Apocalypse on this universe.
A sequel series was published focusing on the surviving lanterns being integrated into Starfleet, only for the discovery of a living Manhunter—the Green Lantern's predecessors—to throw things into a tizzy as Sinestro prepares to obtain true power. All the while, one man prepares to unleash his wrath upon the universe once more...
The series was written by Mike Johnson, with penciling work done by Angel Hernandez.
Compare with Planet of the Apes/Green Lantern, another comic crossover between Green Lantern and an iconic sci-fi franchise, and Star Trek vs. Transformers, which crosses Star Trek over with another iconic sci-fi series.
This series contains the following tropes:
- Adapted Out: The series sticks with the old "Manhunters revolt against the Guardians" story whereas the Manhunters went rogue in the current canon due to being reprogrammed by the rogue guardian Krona. Also, Atrocitus is able to live without his ring once Khan takes it from him, whereas Red Lanterns will mostly die without their rings.
- Back from the Dead: Nekron is able to resurrect the destroyed Vulcan, including Spock's mother. Of course, seeing as they're all Black Lanterns, it's more of a case of Came Back Wrong.
- Badass Boast: After Hal Jordan tells everyone about the situation with Nekron and the end of the DC universe and how Necron has invaded the Star Trek universe, Kirk responds with this: "A no-win scenario, Jordan? You've come to the right ship."
- The Bad Guy Wins: Nekron is able to start a second Blackest Night and destroys the DC Universe, leaving only a handful of survivors that Ganthet sends to the Kelvin Timeline.
- Big Bad Ensemble: The sequel has both Sinestro and Khan independently acting as the main antagonist.
- The Bus Came Back: In the second series, Khan returns after his imprisonment in Star Trek Into Darkness.
- Call-Back:
- When discussing how he ended up in the Kelvin Timeline, Hal mentions how Nekron tried to destroy the universe by raising the dead before.
- The Romulan Senator Decius mentions how his people were being blamed for the destruction of Vulcan, as caused by Nero in the 2009 film.
- Khan mentions to his fellow supermen how he looks different, a reference to his self-titled miniseries that revealed he underwent Magic Plastic Surgery to resemble a white man.
- The Coup: Chang, the Gorn Prince Glocon, and the Romulan Senator Decius immediately kill all of their respective governments and seize control upon gaining their rings. It's then immediately followed by Sinestro, Atrocitus, and Larfleeze coming by to remind them who's really in charge. All three governments are in disarray because of these coups by the end of the first series, and come the second, Sinestro and later Khan seize the Klingons for themselves.
- Crossover: Between Star Trek (IDW) and Green Lantern.
- Crossover Couple: Carol Ferris/Star Sapphire and Montgomery Scott hook up in Stranger Worlds. Hal's pretty bummed when he finds out.
- Crossover Power Acquisition: Most of the entire crew of the Enterprise gain powers of different Lantern Corps.
- Dead Alternate Counterpart: Inverted. Ganthet dies at the start of the first miniseries, but the second miniseries reveals he has a counterpart in the Star Trek universe who survives in the end.
- Death by Adaptation: The entire DC Universe was destroyed when Nekron unleashed a second Blackest Night, realizing that the dead far outnumbered the living. All that's left are Hal, Guy, John, Kilwog, Carol, Saint Walker, Larfleeze, Sinestro, and Atrocitus, who are transported to the Kelvin Timeline with what little energy Ganthet has left. Unfortunately, Nekron follows suit. The first series specifically mentions Kyle Rayner was killed by Nekron to keep him from summoning the White Entity, while the second sees Atrocitus killed by Khan to claim his ring. Larfleeze also gets killed by Khan once he's deemed no longer useful to the genetic tyrant. Also, once McCoy's Indigo ring is rendered inert after the recreation of the Life Entity, the Indigo Tribe is rendered defunct.
- Demoted to Extra: Saint Walker ends up being knocked out for most of the first story, and spends the entirety of the second as a prisoner.
- Dies Differently in Adaptation:
- In Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, General Chang dies when the Enterprise is able to hit his Klingon Bird-of-Prey with a torpedo. His Kelvin counterpart suffocates in space when he loses his ring.
- The U.S.S. Constellation was destroyed in "The Doomsday Machine" when Commodore Decker rammed the ship into the titular machine, while his crew was destroyed by it long beforehand. The ship and all hands here are destroyed by the Red Lantern Gorn and Atrocitus.
- Eviler than Thou:
- In the first series, Sinestro, Larfleeze, and Atrocitus demonstrate a far greater threat than the Klingons, Romulans, and Gorn combined.
- In the second, Atrocitus learns the hard way that his wrath is nothing compared to Khan Noonien Singh.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Ganthet, last of the Guardians, uses the rest of his energies to send the surviving Lanterns into another universe, keeping their lights burning.
- In Spite of a Nail:
- Though it's 29 years early, Kirk still comes into conflict with General Chang, as they did in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.
- Despite the fact the Kelvin Timeline is an entirely separate universe from DC, it does have its own Oa and Guardians of the Universe. The ending hints there also may be a Krypton.
- Likewise, the Guardians imprisoned Parallax in the Central Power Battery, and it can still access the Anti-Matter Universe.
- Irony: The person who stops the unleashing of a third Blackest Night by channeling the entire emotional spectrum is none other than the typically stoic, emotionless Spock. The reasoning is rather simple in hindsight: it's not that Vulcans don't experience emotions, they're just good at suppressing them. Controlling them, even.
- Late-Arrival Spoiler: The series takes place post Into Darkness, so it doesn't hide the presence of Khan Noonien Singh, or how his followers are imprisoned on an astroid.
- Logical Weakness: While the lantern rings are powerful, they only work when they have enough power. Unfortunately, with the DC Universe and their worldsnote gone, and with no existing counterpart in the Kelvin Timeline, the rings have no central batteries to recharge from and risk conking out on their owners at the worst possible moments. The second series then reveals that there is an Oa in the Kelvin Timeline, and part of the plot is attempting to stop Sinestro from accessing it.
- Rule of Symbolism: Each of the characters who get Lantern Rings accurately represent their respective emotions. The idealistic and hopeful Chekov ends up with a Blue Ring, the grouchy but still dedicated Dr. McCoy gets an Indigo Ring, the loving and kind Uhura gets a Violet Ring, an angry and vengeful Gorn Prince (and later Khan, who's infamous for his wrath) end up with a Red Ring, a greedy Romulan Senator with plans to seize everything he wants gets an Orange Ring, and General Chang—a proud Klingon Warrior who would strike fear into the hearts of his enemies—ends up with a Yellow Ring. And at the end of the second series, the fearless James T. Kirk ends up with a Green Ring.
- Sequel Hook: The first miniseries Spectrum War ends with Sinestro, Larfleeze and Atrocitus escaping, while the second miniseries Stranger Worlds ends with Sinestro escaping once more and the Federation vying to help their universe's versions of the Guardians found an equivalent to the Green Lantern Corps. At the same time, the Enterprise crew picks up news of a planet with a red sun, implying the existence of Krypton in the Star Trek universe.
- Shout-Out: Kirk becoming a Green Lantern references how Chris Pine was a favorite choice to play Hal Jordan in the DCEU prior his casting as Steve Trevor in Wonder Woman (2017).
- Took a Level in Badass:
- Uhura, Chekov, and McCoy end up with rings of love, hope, and compassion respectively, giving them a slew of powers unlike that of any Starfleet officer. Scotty is even able to reverse engineer the tech to give Starfleet officers a psuedo-white ring that lets them use it like a phaser.
- If there was ever any doubt about Kirk's fearlessness, those doubts are quelled when he becomes the Kelvin Timeline's first Green Lantern.
- Took a Level in Kindness: Lampshaded by Scotty, who notes that Dr. [McCoy] is less grouchy than usual since he got that Indigo Ring.
- Villain Forgot to Level Grind: Subverted. In spite of Nekron losing the first time with his plans to bring forth death to all, he learns from his mistakes and decides to resurrect all the dead as Black Lanterns, reasoning that they far outnumber the living. He also kills Kyle Rayner first to ensure the White Entity could not be summoned to destroy him.
