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Warning : contains spoilers forStar Trek : Defiant Annual 2024 !
Star Trekis set up Tasha Yar ’s daughter Sela as the franchise ’s ultimate Romulan anti - poor boy . Sela , half - human and half - Romulan , is a patriotic soldier in the Empire . challenging and cunning , Sela has on the face of it lost touch with her human side . Now , inStar Trek : Defiant Annual 2024,Sela is reunited with her female parent , and the brush stirs something in her , implant the seeds for a potential salvation arc .
InStar Trek : Defiant Annual 2024,written by Christopher Cantwell and draw by Ramon Rosanas , Sela gets her hands on an experimental young time traveling gimmick . An fortuity during transport in reality send Sela back far further than she intended , and finds herself present to cheek with her mother : Tasha Yar . She gets to see her mother in action , bring through Caitian hostages . After returning to her time , Sela sets a course of action to rendezvous with theDefiant .
As she warps her way to them , she reflects on her female parent ’s heroic and intrepid nature – and wonders if she can be those thing as well .
Sela is a Tortured Soul Thanks to Her Dual Heritage
Sela exist thanks to one of the most bizarre game twist inStar Trekhistory . Her mother Tasha Yarwas killed early in theEnterprise’smission . Later , thanks to a temporal Riffian , account was temporarily change and Tasha lived once again . The episode , entitle “ Yesterday ’s Enterprise , ” cease with the revived Tasha locomote back nearly 20 twelvemonth , where she allegedly perished . However , she survived and was enamor by Romulans . A few years afterward , Sela was born . Tasha attempted to escape with her daughter , but she was killed , leave Sela to be elevate by her Romulan Father of the Church .
Sela ’s dual nature , that of human and Romulan , has informed so much of her character . She knew her female parent ’s lovemaking for the first few years of her liveliness , only to have that rend by . The scars inflicted upon Sela ’s psyche by the incident were great , and to compound the psychic trauma , she was impart at the clemency of her Romulan Church Father . He , as well as Romulan smart set , grind every bit of Sela ’s humanity out of her – or at least they essay to . Sela is still human , and her ego - loathing over her treble inheritance explains her action .
Star Trek fans have long speculated that Tasha Yar was an early queer sub , and while it conduct decades , the franchise eventually agreed .
Will Sela Become a Force for Good in theStar TrekUniverse?
Yet now , after understand her female parent for who she really was , as opposed to simple retention informed by class of propaganda , Sela may at last be successful in reconciling her two face . By resolve these long - standing personal emergence , Sela is free to evince her human side more . Tasha attempted to impart love and benignity to Sela , and at long last these oppressed traits may be coming back . Sela has committed some horrible acts in theStar Trekuniverse , and if she is indeed to morph into a virtuously equivocal anti - hero , it will take some time .
Star Trek : Defiant Annual 2024is on sale now from IDW Publishing .
Star Trek : Defiant Annual 2024(2024 )
