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"Hell Is Only a Word, Part 4" ("Defiant, Issue 15") is a Star Trek comic, the fifteenth issue of the Star Trek: Defiant series from IDW Publishing, released in May 2024.

Description[]

It's a good day to die! Left with no other choice, the crew of the Defiant assists Hugh in assimilating B'Elanna in hopes of reclaiming control over the parasite embedded in her brain stem. But it's a race against time and the undead as hordes of infected Starbase crew bang on the hangar doors, demanding Worf and his crew surrender and become one with the parasitic collective!

References[]

Characters[]

Jeffrey Gossford • Gron (Yridian) • Hugh • Nazzak • Ro Laren • Sela • Spock • B'Elanna Torres • Nymira Vondect • Worf • bluegills

Log entries

Tom Paris • B'Elanna Torres

Referenced only

Miral Paris • Jean-Luc Picard • Benjamin Sisko

Starships and vehicles[]

USS Defiant (Defiant-class escort)

Locations[]

Kor Neeron Space Station • Starbase 99

Races and cultures[]

Andorian • Bajoran • bluegill • Borg • Cardassian • Human • Klingon • Orion • Romulan • Vulcan • Xindi-Reptilian • Yridian

Referenced only

Nausicaan

Other references[]

ketracel-red

Appendices[]

Connections[]

Star Trek: Defiant (DFT)
Defiant, Volume 1	"Issue 1" • "Issue 2" • "Issue 3" • "Issue 4" • "Issue 5"
Day of Blood crossovers	"Part 2" (Issue 6) • "Part 4" (Issue 7)
Another Piece of the Action (Vol. 2)	"Part 1" (Issue 8) • "Part 2" (Issue 9) • "Part 3" (Issue 10) • "Part 4" (Issue 11) • "Annual 2024"
Hell Is Only a Word (Vol. 3)	"Part 1" (Issue 12) • "Part 2" (Issue 13) • "Part 3" (Issue 14) • "Part 4" (Issue 15) • "Part 5" (Issue 16)

Timeline[]

published order
Previous comic: Defiant, Issue 14	Defiant comics	Next comic: Defiant, Issue 16
chronological order
Previous Adventure: Pleroma, Part 2	Memory Beta Chronology	Next Adventure: Sons of Star Trek, Issue 3
Previous Adventure: Hell Is Only a Word, Part 3	Voyages of the USS Defiant	Next Adventure: Hell Is Only a Word, Part 5