Wow, some IDW fun news in here - and stunning cover art!
http://www.startrek.com/article/idw-trek-comics-for-this-week-and-march
http://www.startrek.com/article/idw-trek-comics-for-this-week-and-march
IDW's "Legacy of Spock", plus UK strips collection
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So, I take it this is basically IDW wrapping up the story of Spock Prime?
Or doing a tribute to Nimoy. It sounds like it's flashing back to an event that's already in the past of the comics and movies, the search for New Vulcan. So I'd speculate that it will be a frame story for flashbacks about Spock Prime's life, much like Spock: Reflections.
It seems my friend you've got it just there:
http://www.thetrekcollective.com/2015/12/idws-march-titles-and-other-star-trek.html
Hmm, and here I was thinking it would finally address Spock Prime's disappearance mentioned in the After Darkness story.
Meanwhile, according to this New Vulcan is actually a new planet settled on after Vulcan's destruction? Since Vulcan already had colony worlds, wouldn't it be more, well, logical to select one of those to be the new Vulcan capital?
Meanwhile, according to this New Vulcan is actually a new planet settled on after Vulcan's destruction? Since Vulcan already had colony worlds, wouldn't it be more, well, logical to select one of those to be the new Vulcan capital?
I thought so too, but I guess Abrams and his crew thought that starting from scratch would make a better line in the movie. How stupid.
The '09 movie already seemed to have implied that they didn't have significant presence off Vulcan anyway (the cited number of 10,000 surviving Vulcans and all, there's no way that number makes sense if they had colony worlds), so they're probably just continuing with that. Though it is ridiculous, yeah.
I'm really looking forward to the UK strips.
Sounds logical, but were any ever confirmed canonically?
I recall Vulcana Regar in TNG, but fan debate ensued as to whether it was a colony planet, or simply a city or region on Vulcan itself.
Memory Alpha lists only:
- Paan Mokar
- Vulcanis Lunar colony
- Vulcan Monastery Planet (location of P'Jem)
Technically, Romulus is a Vulcan colony. Well, a Vulcan settlement.
Well, if you had to return to Vulcan every seven years or die, would you want to take the risk of living on a colony world?
Stop ruining my joke!
No reason it has to be Vulcan, just wherever your bondmate lives. Spock had to return to Vulcan because T'Pring was there. But both Tuvok and Vorik managed to resolve their pon farrs in the Delta Quadrant. Mirror T'Pol resolved hers with help from Trip Tucker, so it was probably aboard Enterprise, not on Vulcan.
That stupid After Darkness arc of the ongoing comic portrayed that Spock and several other Vulcans on New Vulcan were going insane without their actual planet.
The Academy comics feature a standoff where the Vulcan cadet is chastised by visiting Vulcan dignitaries for not doing her part in preserving the species, i.e. procreating to avoid extinction.
I'm liberal with the movies because they're cinema-only products, but assuming a species is confined to a single planet when it's part of an interstellar multispecies nation...
I'm liberal with the movies because they're cinema-only products, but assuming a species is confined to a single planet when it's part of an interstellar multispecies nation...
Unfortunately it's a common tendency. Most characters onscreen belonging to a given species are usually assumed to be natives of that species' home planet. Only a few human regular characters in Trek have been given birthplaces anywhere other than Earth -- Beverly Crusher in Copernicus City, Luna (according to an onscreen graphic), Tasha Yar on Turkana IV, Annika Hansen/Seven of Nine on the Tendara colony. Every other human main-title regular whose birthplace was given was a native of Earth. And Spock was a native of Vulcan, Worf was a native of Qo'noS, Deanna was a native of Betazed, etc. ST writers only seem to remember colonies when they want to do stories about them.
^^Tuvok was born on the Vulcanis Lunar Colony, though it would seem his family moved back to Vulcan at some point during his childhood. What about Mayweather? Granted the Horizon was a ship, not a colony, but he's still someone was wasn't born or raised on his race's homeworld.
Honestly, when Therin mentioned the paucity of Vulcan colonies in canon earlier I was trying to think of any Federation non-human colony worlds that had been mentioned in canon, and I couldn't come up with any besides those three worlds, two of which were pre-Federation and one which might not have even been outside the Vulcan system. Did we ever see or hear of a Federation colony world that wasn't human in on-screen Trek?
Oh, yeah, of course. I didn't even consider the ENT characters because I figured "Aw, that early, they'd all be from Earth." I should know better, considering I've written four books about them now. Duh.
Nothing specific, though there were a bunch of "Federation colonies" whose population makeup was never specified, or that had a mix of species.
Non-canonically, the first resource that gets very ambitious about listing Federation colony worlds, and ratios of populations, is "Introduction to Navigation" within Bantam's "Star Trek Maps".
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