Connecting with the voyages of the ongoing Star Trek comic series, Defiant, Vol. 5 delves into intrigue and rebellion!Avoiding a major family decision, Captain B’Elanna Torres attempts to find clarity dismantling minefields in the Alpha Quadrant, but discovers an explosive political situation about to blow.Meanwhile, Alexander has been tasked with a mighty Errand of Valor: rescue the workers rebelling against a deuterium mega-power, Archanis Inter-Corporate. However, when a face from Alexander’s bloody past appears, his heart, and urges for vengeance, are truly tested.Volume 5 collects issues #22–25. Christopher Cantwell is a writer of comic books that include The Blue Flame, She Could Fly, Everything, Doctor Doom, The Mask, Iron Man, Captain America, and Star Wars: Obi-Wan. He served as an executive producer of the television adaptation of the comic book Paper Girls. Cantwell is also a writer, producer, and director of television. He is best known as one of the two co-creators of the TV series Halt and Catch Fire, for which he served as a producer, showrunner, screenwriter, and director. He also directed the 2019 film The Parts You Lose.