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Do superhero comic books and related media still exist in the 22nd-24th centuries?

It was actually Marauder Mo. https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Marauder_Mo

Marauder Mo was a 24th century Ferengi action figure for male Ferengi children. One of the accessories available was an energy whip.

Quark owned several Marauder Mo figures as a child, and they were later considered valuable collectibles. However, Ishka noted that their value would have been much higher if Quark had left the figures in their original packaging. (DS9: "Ferengi Love Songs")
 
It was actually Marauder Mo. https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Marauder_Mo

Marauder Mo was a 24th century Ferengi action figure for male Ferengi children. One of the accessories available was an energy whip.

Quark owned several Marauder Mo figures as a child, and they were later considered valuable collectibles. However, Ishka noted that their value would have been much higher if Quark had left the figures in their original packaging. (DS9: "Ferengi Love Songs")

Thanks for the correction.
 
Yes, but the Wayne's were killed in a Romulan attack on Khitomer.

My idea for a 23rd century version of Batman is this;

Bruce Wayne is born to Thomas and Martha Wayne on a Earth colony world called New Gotham, in the Ophichus system. Once, New Gotham was a great colony, but it's become like Nimbus III, with the capitol city of New Gotham particularly affected and being somewhat rundown like Paradise City became.

Thomas is a businessman of great repute, and has built Wayne Enterprises into a great company that makes great technological devices, ably assisted by Lucius Fox, however, he prefers to work at the main hospital in New Gotham City. One night after attending an old movie (the Zorro movie starring Antonio Banderas) in the downtown district, he, Martha, and Bruce are walking back to their hover car, get in, and begin to drive back to their estate outside of town when all of a sudden, they are intercepted by space pirates attacking them in combat shuttles. They are forced off of the 'road' and made to get out of the car. The leader of said pirate band, Chesterfield Cobblepot, only wants to kidnap the Waynes, but underling Joe Chill panics when Thomas tries to protect his family and shoots him dead with his phaser, followed by Martha when she tries to back up her husband. Bruce could've ended up the same way, but the local law enforcement shows up, stuns Chill and the other pirates (Cobblepot was elsewhere directing the attempted kidnapping), and he's saved. His parents are still dead, and young Bruce is inconsolable.

After the funeral, Bruce maps a plan for his life: he studies a ton of science and technology subjects, becomes physically adept and proficient in all sorts of fighting skills, learns how to fly spacecraft and also starships, and studies how to be a detective. After many years away on Earth and elsewhere doing this, he returns to New Gotham determined to fight space piracy and whatever crime exists in New Gotham City. But how will he do it?

He remembers being scared by bats while visiting Earth, so he decides to use the iconology of a bat to frighten crinimals while fighting crime. He builds a Batmobile (think of the one from Batman Beyond, but with 23rd century technology) that has cloaking technology which allows him to be invisible and to make getaways to Wayne Manor without being seen. He also builds a small starship called the Batwing, which has the same cloaking tech that allows him to 'attack' pirate ships without being seen initially (he only attacks a pirate ship to disable it, then he boards it stealthily to fight and disable the crew without killing them, much as Batman always does now.) His Batsuit is black and stealthy, allowing him to sneak up on anybody on planet and fight them in the manner of the original comic book hero, and it also produces a form of 'invisibility' to sensors so that local police, or anybody else, can't just detect him coming and going untill he wants them to.

As Bruce Wayne, he lives the life of a playboy enjoying all of the social things a millionaire playboy would do, but as Batman, he fights his never ending war against crime on the streets of New Gotham and in space.
 
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My idea for a 23rd century version of Batman is this;

Bruce Wayne is born to Thomas and Martha Wayne on a Earth colony world called New Gotham, in the Ophichus system. Once, New Gotham was a great colony, but it's become like Nimbus Iii, with the capitol city of New Gotham particularly affected and being somewhat rundown like Paradise City became.

That would make a great Elseworlds story. :)
 
Not all that long ago, all stories were superhero stories. There was no point in telling a story about a loser who did not possess superpowers. It's just that back then, superhero stories covered all the bases and weren't limited to revenge fantasies for the nerdy and the weak (or then derivative pseudo-clever "commentary" on said).

That is, those were the stories with staying power, the ones worth carving in marble or copying by hand, or even retelling in general. Today, staying power is irrelevant: any negligible phenomenon can claim prominence because the five practitioners can all be reached in milliseconds and their objects of worship can and thus will be mass produced.

Tomorrow... Well, what we have now is not real staying power. Comics exist on a medium that cannot stand the test of time. Sure, they can go digital, but that medium best reveals their inherent weaknesses, and calls for major improvement such as animation and interactivity. So I could see comics as a thing dying essentially overnight, within a year of today, if some celebrity or hate group chooses to attack their anti-ecological basic nature. Superheroes would be mere collateral damage there.

But superheroes (still) have universal appeal, in that both China and India are major markets and originators. If the West decided to drop the genre, history probably would fail to take any notice.

Timo Saloniemi
 
I wonder how popular science fiction would be in a world where science fiction is a reality. I suppose there will always be science fiction stories because humanity will always progress. Perhaps galaxy spanning stories like Star Wars or stories set in multiple galaxies would be where science fiction is by the 23rd/24th centuries. Or maybe more cyberpunk styles of stories.

I imagine fantasy would increase in popularity. I can also see an upswing in super hero stories. Those might still be in the realm of fiction.
 
Well, us living in the realm of spaceflight and clever machines and superhuman powers of all sorts hasn't managed to kill science fiction quite yet. To the contrary, it is thriving...

..But so is feng shui literature. Thriving really doesn't amount to much nowadays. Why should it matter in the future? Baseball or television can remain stone dead without in any way stopping an irrelevant billion from dabbling in it. It suffices for the remaining trillions to declare it dead.

Timo Saloniemi
 
Not all that long ago, all stories were superhero stories. There was no point in telling a story about a loser who did not possess superpowers. It's just that back then, superhero stories covered all the bases and weren't limited to revenge fantasies for the nerdy and the weak (or then derivative pseudo-clever "commentary" on said).i

Are you referring to mythological stories like Hercules or something? I'd argue that was fairly "long ago." Certainly I don't think it's the case since the formation of the "novel" as a form of literature that main characters with superhuman qualities were common. I mean, what were notable early novels? Don Quixote? Robinson Crusoe? Candide? There's no superheroes among them.
 
I’m sure comics are accessible in historical databases, just no longer produced en masse since corporations such as DC or Marvel are a TNG-era no-no. However, if an artist wanted to express themselves in comic book form, who is Picard to say no, so I’d imagine it’s more of an indie art form than an industry.

Yeah, web comics seem to do pretty well today. Some equivalent to that could be popular in the future when everyone is browsing that goofy information network from VOY "Non Sequitur."

I wonder how popular science fiction would be in a world where science fiction is a reality. I suppose there will always be science fiction stories because humanity will always progress. Perhaps galaxy spanning stories like Star Wars or stories set in multiple galaxies would be where science fiction is by the 23rd/24th centuries. Or maybe more cyberpunk styles of stories.

I imagine fantasy would increase in popularity. I can also see an upswing in super hero stories. Those might still be in the realm of fiction.

Perhaps science fiction would have subversive social commentaries arguing that genetic engineering is okay. Or it's all a throwback to simpler stuff like Captain Proton.

Kor
 
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I wonder how popular science fiction would be in a world where science fiction is a reality. I suppose there will always be science fiction stories because humanity will always progress. Perhaps galaxy spanning stories like Star Wars or stories set in multiple galaxies would be where science fiction is by the 23rd/24th centuries. Or maybe more cyberpunk styles of stories.

I imagine fantasy would increase in popularity. I can also see an upswing in super hero stories. Those might still be in the realm of fiction.

We live in a world where science fiction is reality - at least some of Jules Verne. People walked on the moon, after all, and managed some other feats described in his books as well. So the genre then simply moves its goalposts. Why would that be any different in the 23rd/24th century ? But, it could be that their science fiction takes off in very different directions because science has opened up new alleys we can't foresee- much like Verne couldn't possibly have predicted some ideas in science fiction today. Their SF might be far more exotic than the relatively mundane "intergalactic instead of interstellar!".
 
Kirk and Spock would probably laugh at X-Men after the events of "Bread and Circuses"

Kirk & Spock were in a crossover comic book featuring themselves and the X-Men called 'Star TreX', so that's been shot down; also, they and the rest of the Enterprise crew were in a comic book crossover between themselves and the Green Lantern Corps, so again, that's been shot down.

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Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' Watchmen was named one of the 100 best English-language novels since 1923 by Time magazine in 2010. Art Spiegelman's Maus won a Pulitzer Prize in 1992. Comic books have also won Hugo Awards, the Bram Stoker Award, and the World Fantasy Award.

Comic books are absolutely literature, and you're just displaying your ignorance by claiming otherwise.

Very, very, very few comic books are like "Watchmen". No other medium, except perhaps television, has the crap-to-art ratio of comics.

Not that they aren't fun, or that it's wrong to enjoy them. It's just disingenuous to say Watchmen validates crossover fanwank like the kind mentioned above. Not that I wouldn't skim through all of the above myself. Not every meal needs to be gourmet. Not all media needs to be enlightening.
 
It's just disingenuous to say Watchmen validates crossover fanwank like the kind mentioned above.
Good thing I never said anything like that, then.

I never denied that crappy comics exist. I was protesting against the assertion that comic books are inherently crap. Comics are like any other medium. Good stuff and bad stuff both exist within it.
 
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What is the logical connection between the events of "Brad and Circuses" and Kirk & Spock's attitude toward X-Men comics?
They took a serum that gave them telekenetic powers, after being tortured by people with telekenetic powers. I imagine living it would impact your view of a fictitious version, much like how real veterans view Call of Duty games.
 
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