Marvel's Star Trek Comics (1980-82) - Page 4

Relayer1 · September 5 2011, 07:51 PM

Cadet49 wrote:

Christopher wrote:

ryan123450 wrote:

I read these on the Comics DVD and was struck by how many rediculous stories there were. Dracula, Gnomes, Ghosts, etc. I know they were working under limitations, but seriously?

Sure, it's not like Star Trek would ever have done an episode about a haunted house, or Jack the Ripper, or Alice and the White Rabbit...

...or a recreation of the Old West, meeting a Greek God, Romans in Space ...
Seriously, those bizarre, Twilight Zone-ish episodes that made the classic Trek so great ... you never knew what to expect "out there"!

I just recently read those 80s Marvel comics, and thought many of them were great - really keeping with the tone of TOS.

Or another viewpoint would be that canon they may be, but that's what made classic Trek sometimes, er, pants...

King Daniel · September 5 2011, 08:03 PM

I say it made it fun!
Big, epic and fantastical stuff like the Enterprise crew being the Milky Way's antibodies against an 11,000 mile-long invading space amoeba? Awesome stuff.

Greg Cox · September 5 2011, 08:52 PM

Relayer1 wrote:

Cadet49 wrote:

Christopher wrote:

Sure, it's not like Star Trek would ever have done an episode about a haunted house, or Jack the Ripper, or Alice and the White Rabbit...

...or a recreation of the Old West, meeting a Greek God, Romans in Space ...
Seriously, those bizarre, Twilight Zone-ish episodes that made the classic Trek so great ... you never knew what to expect "out there"!

I just recently read those 80s Marvel comics, and thought many of them were great - really keeping with the tone of TOS.

Or another viewpoint would be that canon they may be, but that's what made classic Trek sometimes, er, pants...

Don't forget Abraham Lincoln, Don Juan, Leonardo da Vinci, and women who turn into cats . . . and vise versa!

I gotta admit: I love the wilder, more fantastical aspects of TOS. I hope STAR TREK never takes itself so seriously that they can't run into Dracula or a giant floating hand once in a while . . . .

DorkBoy [TM] · September 6 2011, 12:32 AM

Congratulations guys, you made me pull out my DVD collection (Goodreader + iPad = win) and start re-reading the Marvel run. I am a sucker for the TMP era.

I'm also painstakingly combining jpegs into PDFs with Acrobat now ... thanks for the link!

BillJ · September 6 2011, 04:00 PM

Greg Cox wrote:

I gotta admit: I love the wilder, more fantastical aspects of TOS. I hope STAR TREK never takes itself so seriously that they can't run into Dracula or a giant floating hand once in a while . . . .

This. First and foremost I want Star Trek to be entertaining.

September 5 2011, 08:03 PM	#47
King Daniel Admiral Location: KingDaniel has fallen Into Darkness (in England)	Re: Marvel's Star Trek Comics (1980-82) I say it made it fun! Big, epic and fantastical stuff like the Enterprise crew being the Milky Way's antibodies against an 11,000 mile-long invading space amoeba? Awesome stuff.

September 6 2011, 12:32 AM	#49
DorkBoy [TM] Captain	Re: Marvel's Star Trek Comics (1980-82) Congratulations guys, you made me pull out my DVD collection (Goodreader + iPad = win) and start re-reading the Marvel run. I am a sucker for the TMP era. I'm also painstakingly combining jpegs into PDFs with Acrobat now ... thanks for the link! __________________ Homer: The information superhighway showed the average person what some nerd thinks about Star Trek.

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