Assimilation

“Star Trek: The Next Generation / Doctor Who: Assimilation²” is an example of one of those team-ups where the only real surprise is that it took this long for both licensers to sign off on it. IDW clearly had great success with their recent “Star Trek: The Next Generation / Legion of Super-Heroes” mini-series, and this is following along that line of mashing up two properties, but in more ways than one. Like the Enterprise crew meeting the LSH, Scott Tipton, David Tipton and Tony Lee start their story off by keeping the two groups of characters away from one another; the first half is about the Federation being invaded by a Borg and Cyberman joint task force, the second half a seemingly unconnected story about the Doctor, Amy Pond and Rory Williams in ancient Egypt tracking down an alien. It’s not until the final page that you finally see them meet, something that might frustrate a lot of readers. (Especially based on reactions to that last crossover mini-series, which pulled a simil