Star Trek: Early Voyages
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Yup -- Early Voyages' helm-officer Sita Mohindas plays a decent-sized supporting role throughout the novel.
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DSC: Drastic Measures, if MB is to be believed. Good job @Dayton Ward!
I corresponded a few times with Ian Edginton over the years - the last time around the publication of the omnibus - and, yes, they still had their notes for how they would have concluded the series. They even held out hopes for a conclusion via Pocket Books at one point, IIRC.
Marco Palmieri suggested I include Moves-With-Burning-Grace. I hadn't read the Corps of Engineers books, so I wasn't familiar enough with the character to do more than mention him.
Good way to avoid contradicting anything about him. Nevertheless, I appreciated the shout-out to the character.Marco Palmieri suggested I include Moves-With-Burning-Grace. I hadn't read the Corps of Engineers books, so I wasn't familiar enough with the character to do more than mention him.
This was followed by a notice that "Early Voyages" subscribers would be receiving "Iron Man" instead. If you weren't into superheroes, too bad.
I similar thing happened to me as a kid when I chose Super Friends as one of the four titles I subscribed to from DC Comics. The Super Friends title was canceled right after I subscribed to it, so DC sent me All-Star Squadron instead, starting with issue #7.
It all turned out OK, since All-Star Squadron gave me a love for DC's Golden Age heroes and the 1940s as a period of history. It also introduced me to the work of Jerry Ordway, one of my favorite artists. I've occasionally wondered why All-Star was the title they chose to send me instead. Did they consciously choose to substitute one superhero group title for another, or was it totally random? Were they just trying to push All-Star, one of their relatively new titles at the time? I should email one of the folks working at DC at the time and see if he might know...
Is there much difference? SNW is pretty much live action EV, just with a different supporting cast.
Early Voyages looks like what Star Trek set in this era should look like. SNW looks like it should be set AFTER the TNG era shows. I'm done with prequels like that. Unless SNW ends with some kind of loss of tech in their last episode so everything has to be redesigned to look like TOS, I'm not interested in anymore "prequel" shows. They're decent popcorn action adventure shows, but terrible Prime timeline Star Trek. Way too many continuity errors between SNW, DISCO and TOS for my liking too.
At least ENT did a good job of looking good for a modern audience, while still managing to convince us that the technology was way less advanced than TOS was.
It's been 8 years, dude. They're not going to undo the visuals now.
Likenesses in comic books are always in flux, surely each time a control on Spock's panel is drawn wrong, an atrocity is committed at least on part with SNW and a copy of the Official Star Trek Bridge Blureprints bursts into flames?
I think SNW has done a magnificent job of matching the aesthetic of TOS without looking ridiculous. Because, let's face it, if you remove the warp drive and transporter, Kirk's Enterprise is less technologically sophisticated than my house.
It's what they though the future would look like in 1966, but looks ridiculous now.
Also, you've got seriously selective memory, because there was a huge outcry in 2001 over the look of Enterprise and how it wasn't compatible with the tech of TOS (which it wasn't for the same reason).
It's what they though the future would look like in 1966, but looks ridiculous now.
Also, you've got seriously selective memory, because there was a huge outcry in 2001 over the look of Enterprise and how it wasn't compatible with the tech of TOS (which it wasn't for the same reason).
Yeah, there is no way you could do a big budget, futuristic show that looks more primitive than TOS, unless you went with some purposefully campy retro futuristic look. I think at this point they're just trying to look like they're set 200 years in the today's future, and I'm fine with that. I love the SNW, I think they've done a great job of updating the designs to look futuristic to today's audiences, but still including enough familiar TOS elements to be recognizable.
Nah, Enterprise did a good job of convincing ppl that it was technologically less advanced than TOS. Discovery and SNW are failing at this miserably. People thinking they're doing a good job of it are in denial.
They need to stop with the prequel shows and do something else.
That's not how I remember it in the slightest. And the first time I saw the 1701 bridge on Discovery, it sent shivers down my spine, It was so good. There was no doubt in my fanboy mind that they were stepping onto the bridge of the original Enterprise 1701.
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