why no 'Star Trek vs Aliens' comic series?
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I went and reread the original press release. In three months I'd forgotten that this project was to reteam the Tiptons and J.K. Woodward. I guess that the Mirror TNG series, which is also by the Tiptons and Woodward, is essentially its replacement.
What I find interesting about the original announcement, now that I've reread it, is that it has no quotes at all from Dark Horse.
Not gonna lie...I was ready to read the hell out of this. 
I've not heard a thing.
Maybe approvals fell through on one end or the other. Maybe it was announced prematurely without all the i-s dotted and the t-s crossed. (Wouldn't be the first time for this particular creative team that something like that happened; they announced a sequel to Assimilation2 at New York Comic Con -- and then IDW lost the Doctor Who license.)
Maybe approvals fell through on one end or the other. Maybe it was announced prematurely without all the i-s dotted and the t-s crossed. (Wouldn't be the first time for this particular creative team that something like that happened; they announced a sequel to Assimilation2 at New York Comic Con -- and then IDW lost the Doctor Who license.)
Well, there's one benefit of the license going to Titan.
Hre's what we could have got from Tony Lee, a DS9/Doctor Who crossover with a visit to the Enterprise era! - https://www.bleedingcool.com/2015/05/12/tony-lees-pitch-for-a-doctor-whodeep-space-9-crossover/
My suspicion is that the only thing worse than a Tipton Trek/Who crossover would be a Tony Lee Trek/Who crossover.
ETA: I mean, c'mon. "Jadzia Dax meets Tobin Dax as O’Brien discovers that Hoshi Sato is the great great great great grandmother of his wife Keiko." TWO JAPANESE PEOPLE!? They must be related! Genius storytelling from Tony Lee. Does it serve a story purpose? Let's not get crazy here.
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Dredging this up...
If you want an example of what a "Star Trek does Aliens" story would be like, Alien: Covenant is that. I went to see it yesterday, and it kept nagging at me how much the story played by Star Trek rules -- and, for that matter, how much parts of it felt like "The Cage." There's a human distress signal from a planet that shouldn't be possible, a landing party, a healthy dose of "strange new worlds," and a very literal exploration of the hoary "what does it mean to be human" chestnut. Covenant plays out like the absolute worst case Star Trek scenario, and the wonder to me as I left the theater was why things like that don't happen to Starfleet crews more often.
Suffice it to say, I liked the film a lot. And the Tiptons' cancelled crossover would probably have been nothing like it.
If you want an example of what a "Star Trek does Aliens" story would be like, Alien: Covenant is that. I went to see it yesterday, and it kept nagging at me how much the story played by Star Trek rules -- and, for that matter, how much parts of it felt like "The Cage." There's a human distress signal from a planet that shouldn't be possible, a landing party, a healthy dose of "strange new worlds," and a very literal exploration of the hoary "what does it mean to be human" chestnut. Covenant plays out like the absolute worst case Star Trek scenario, and the wonder to me as I left the theater was why things like that don't happen to Starfleet crews more often.
Suffice it to say, I liked the film a lot. And the Tiptons' cancelled crossover would probably have been nothing like it.
All the Covenant crew was lacking was Starfleet Academy training (to pull back the blind panic), tricorders that could pick out spores and growing parasites - and hand phasers set to disintegrate.
Archer's crew would have been screwed...
Archer's crew would have been screwed...
Alien is well-known for being more graphic, especially when it comes to depicting the xenomorph life cycle. But Trek has generally tended to be more more "family-friendly" when it comes to violence and disturbing content (aside from TNG "Conspiracy," that is 
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So I'm not sure how well the two would mesh.
Kor
).So I'm not sure how well the two would mesh.
Kor
At this point, we all pretty much know how little aliens are made. There's a happy medium that could be struck.
The story is the key.
The story is the key.
Alien is well-known for being more graphic, especially when it comes to depicting the xenomorph life cycle. But Trek has generally tended to be more more "family-friendly" when it comes to violence and disturbing content (aside from TNG "Conspiracy," that is
AVP showed that a PG-13 Alien story could be done. I don't think a Trek/Aliens necessarily needs to be viscerally graphic or have the rampant f-bomb usage found in most of the Alien films. There are ways of suggesting the horror without being graphic about it.
As I said a few pages back, a well-done Alien story would take the Star Trek characters way outside of their comfort zones. Space isn't supposed to be friendly or comfortable. It's an unforgiving environment implacably hostile to human life, and the Xenomorph is the embodiment of just how hostile the universe really is.
The more I think about it, the more I can imagine some really meaty storytelling possibilities.
They decided Aliens wasn't enough are planning to crossover the whole nine yards, right?
Just missing Robocop.
