Are you kidding? That happens all the time. Often to cover plot points from scenes they didn't have the room to include in the comics adaptation. Or sometimes to say the same thing in a less wordy way.
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Are you kidding? That happens all the time. Often to cover plot points from scenes they didn't have the room to include in the comics adaptation. Or sometimes to say the same thing in a less wordy way.
Thanks for that find! (Issue #42.) I went through issues looking for it, and found letters from people like John S. Drew and Rich Handley.
I updated my blog post with this, plus some comments on the Memory Beta article and a fan's take on the ship on DeviantArt based on her appearance in issue #16.
If love isn't 3,200 words on an obscure bit of Star Trek history, then I don't know what is.
That's not what happens. If something appears in the comics adaptation that isn't from the movie, it means it was a scene in the script that got cut from the final film. A comics adaptation (unlike a novelization) doesn't have room to add stuff.
Which is pretty cool. I experienced this for the first time as kid reading the Karate Kid books.
in the Star Trek V: The Final Frontier adaptation there's a great bit of something that Korrd says upon meeting Caithlin Dar that i am actually undecided as to whether it was mined from the script or a fill-in from the fevered imagination of scribe Peter David. its just one of the magic moments of a tie-in, i'll say that much
It's basically from the script, but rephrased.
https://www.st-minutiae.com/resources/scripts/tff.txt
haha no, that stretches the meaning of the word "rephrased" Mister L. Bennett sir. that's not at all what made it into the comic
right you are, i see it now, much further into the script than where i had looked. there was a lot of text to that scene and i assumed it absent when i saw a different barb at the beginning of the conversation. thanks for narrowing in on itYes, it is.
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Even after watching a few episodes of Strange New Worlds, I think most of the Early Voyages Marvel comics can still be handwaved and headcanon'd into continuity. Obviously Una's name is different, April's a bit different, etc. but Early Voyages is still circa 2254, a good 5 years before Strange New Worlds' 2259. They don't really clash in any major way.
Peter David liked getting cute.
Picard's fish tank is much bigger in the DC TNG miniseries 
They did Deja Q long before it happened on screen
And Data is really emotional
Everyone must work out all the time when they're not on duty
Bele from TOS returns!
The TFF comic is underwhelming like the movie, but it includes the deleted scene
Instead of Moon's a Window to Heaven, Uhura sings her TOS song, and the Army of Light thinks she means Sybok! Quite brilliant, actually!
They did Deja Q long before it happened on screen
And Data is really emotional
Everyone must work out all the time when they're not on duty
Bele from TOS returns!
The TFF comic is underwhelming like the movie, but it includes the deleted scene
Instead of Moon's a Window to Heaven, Uhura sings her TOS song, and the Army of Light thinks she means Sybok! Quite brilliant, actually!
For what it's worth, the DC artists only saw photos of the Enterprise-D bridge set prior to drawing that miniseries (and only read the "Farpoint" script), hence everything being so Gold Key bizarro. Perhaps Picard having a fish tank was mentioned in the series bible or something.
Also Bele is half-black-and-white on the wrong sides
Also Bele is half-black-and-white on the wrong sides
Also Bele is half-black-and-white on the wrong sides
He must have come from the Mirror Universe.
Yeah, writer Peter David didn't have the lyrics to the song Uhura sang in the movie, so he decided to substitute her song from "Charlie X." Cool choice!Instead of Moon's a Window to Heaven, Uhura sings her TOS song, and the Army of Light thinks she means Sybok! Quite brilliant, actually!
Outside of the name, there was nothing in the story to indicate that was supposed to be the same Bele as on TOS. So it's more of an homage or an in-joke than anything.Also Bele is half-black-and-white on the wrong sides
Everyone must work out all the time when they're not on duty
The hyper-exaggerated dynamic poses Pablo Marcos gave the TNG characters are wild. I can't imagine Patrick Stewart contorting himself to match the way Marcos sometimes drew him, not without throwing his back out.
