STAR TREK: YEAR FIVE launch day!

[comicbookwriter]

‪It’s launch day!

STAR TREK YEAR FIVE from @idwpublishing brings the original crew back home. But what threats new and old stand in their way? The final mission back to Earth begins now and things will never be the same!‬

A writing team of JACKSON LANZING, COLLIN KELLY, JODY HOUSER, BRANDON EASTON and JIM MCCANN.
‪#startrek #tos #ncbd

 

[Greg Cox]

Just picked up a copy. Haven't had a chance to read it yet.

 

[Stevil2001]

Oh, I forgot this was so soon.

Preview pages here if anyone's interested: https://trekmovie.com/2019/04/23/pr...r-five-1-and-star-trek-waypoint-2019-special/

Art looks good for an IDW Star Trek comic.

 

[Yistaan]

‪It’s launch day!

STAR TREK YEAR FIVE from @idwpublishing brings the original crew back home. But what threats new and old stand in their way? The final mission back to Earth begins now and things will never be the same!‬

A writing team of JACKSON LANZING, COLLIN KELLY, JODY HOUSER, BRANDON EASTON and JIM MCCANN.
‪#startrek #tos #ncbd

I had a few questions

Spoiler

Does this take into account the Animated Series at all? Presumably issue 1 takes place sometime in 2269 (the five year mission started in 2265 and this issue was on the 4th anniversary of that launch).

McCoy talks about going to the Shore Leave planet, but in the Animated series they would already know the Shore Leave planet lost its keeper. So this must take place before the Animated Show?

How will (if they do) Arex and M'Ress feature in all of this? They featured in DC Fontana's Year Four comics (which presumably take place before this) but aren't in this issue of Year Five. If this is indeed the final mission back to Earth, will the series encompass a year and weave between the Animated Series episodes?

 

[KimMH]

Can’t wait! I usually pick up my pulls on the weekend so am looking forward to that!

 

[JD]

I forgot this was coming out so soon. I definitely plan on checking this out, but I'll probably wait for the trade/s.

 

[KimMH]

I waited too long for the Q series so will probably have to get the trade for that. This sounded interesting from the first announcement

 

[Klink]

Has anyone read it yet? I may have come across a miss print

 

[Therin of Andor]

Has anyone read it yet? I may have come across a miss print

Just read it a few minutes ago. An enjoyable Part 1, making use of...

Spoiler: Enterprise

interpretation of Tholians.

 

[tgiokdi]

Having both Waypoints and Year 5 drop on the same day is confusing my memory, but I believe I was happy with the Year 5 story but unhappy with the TOS Waypoints story. The opening splash page is going to look fantastic when I eventually get a wallpaper version of it on my computer

 

[Pauln6]

The story is great fun. The dialogue shows a lot of respect for the source material and the story is off to an intriguing start . Worth a look!

 

[Extrocomp]

I was surprised seeing a Tholian in a class M environment. Didn't In a Mirror Darkly establish that Tholians couldn't survive in normal temperatures? Or was that only established in the novels?

 

[Yistaan]

I was surprised seeing a Tholian in a class M environment. Didn't In a Mirror Darkly establish that Tholians couldn't survive in normal temperatures? Or was that only established in the novels?

Well, Mirror humans are different from humans (the eye thing), so it's possible mirror Tholians are different from Tholians.

 

[Christopher]

I was surprised seeing a Tholian in a class M environment. Didn't In a Mirror Darkly establish that Tholians couldn't survive in normal temperatures? Or was that only established in the novels?

Yes, IaMD showed that Tholians needed a temperature of 480 K to survive (normal Earth temperature is c. 290-300 K). Mirror Archer tortured the Tholian by lowering the temperature, and its exoskeleton nearly shattered at 380 K. So a Tholian shouldn't be able to survive in M-class conditions unless it's got some kind of protective suit or force field.

 

[KimMH]

Finally got a chance to read it! A good intro and am definitely going to continue reading. Honestly may never have noticed the issue about the Tholian’s core temp on my own.

A lot of books have detailed the difficulties of humans and Tholian interactions due to the huge disparity between their environmental requirements; I’m sure it will be addressed later. If not I’m honestly ok with that too.

I didn’t like the poke at Scotty’s weight to be honest.

Other nuggets and Easter eggs were much appreciated and help alleviate a situation you know has gone very very badly.

 

[Boris Skrbic]

It might’ve been better to invent an original starship (or better yet, spaceship), since this version of year five will hardly weave between fifty years of year-five events, and then we’ll naturally see it overwritten by future versions of the same year.

 

[JoeZhang]

It might’ve been better to invent an original starship (or better yet, spaceship), since this version of year five will hardly weave between fifty years of year-five events, and then we’ll naturally see it overwritten by future versions of the same year.

But that's always the case with tie-in fiction - the only way to judge this stuff is on the merits of if it's a good story - I doubt there is much of an audience for USS Lollypop: Year Five.

 

[Christopher]

But that's always the case with tie-in fiction - the only way to judge this stuff is on the merits of if it's a good story - I doubt there is much of an audience for USS Lollypop: Year Five.

Right. Nobody's ever said "There's no room for more Sherlock Holmes stories, so let's see a story about some other Victorian consulting detective nobody's ever heard of."

There are decades' worth of stories purporting to be set in that last untold year (or two, if they ignore TAS) of the 5-year mission. And it's been decades since it's been possible to fit all the extant stories into a single timeline. (Heck, "Mind-Sifter" alone covers nearly 2 years of story time.) So why should that suddenly start to matter now?

 

[JoeZhang]

Right. Nobody's ever said "There's no room for more Sherlock Holmes stories, so let's see a story about some other Victorian consulting detective nobody's ever heard of."

There are decades' worth of stories purporting to be set in that last untold year (or two, if they ignore TAS) of the 5-year mission. And it's been decades since it's been possible to fit all the extant stories into a single timeline. (Heck, "Mind-Sifter" alone covers nearly 2 years of story time.) So why should that suddenly start to matter now?

Hell - I *like* having different versions of the same period (year five in this case) because it's interesting to see how writers try to logically fill such a gap in different ways.

 

[Christopher]

Hell - I *like* having different versions of the same period (year five in this case) because it's interesting to see how writers try to logically fill such a gap in different ways.

Yes. Yes. Continuity is not the sole priority of storytelling. You can tell stories that are in continuity with each other, or you can tell stories that offer alternative versions of events. Both approaches have their own benefits, so it's good that both exist.