What's the worst non-canon decision in the history of Trek?

[WarpTenLizard]

Not a very big deal long term, but the early TNG comic where they meet f$@!ing Santa Claus was one of the worst ideas I’ve ever seen.

Which one was that? I HAVE to read that.

Worst decision? Getting rid of the Borg.

Word. Again, I love the decision in "Picard" to just continue the story, without hitting any giant reset buttons or using any Deus Ex Machinas.

 

[Christopher]

Which one was that? I HAVE to read that.

Issue 2 of DC's first TNG miniseries.

 

[TJames03]

True. It just seemed to get more noticeable around the time The Soul Key came out. I think a big part of the reason for that was in TNG/Titan timely Ezri was captain of her own starship, while in The Soul Key she was still on DS9 as a Commander (or was it Lt. Commander, I forgot). After that it seemed they started doing more crossovers, in fact I think it was a while before we got a DS9 novel that actually carried the DS9 logo. But if they wanted to do more crossovers then I guess it made sense to bring it up to the same time period as TNG/Titan.

Voyager was interesting. When Beyer took over that line from Christie Golden she brought it pretty close to the time period TNG was, but then they fell behind again. Though in that case it didn't seem to matter as much since the crossovers didn't involve Voyager at all. I think the only thing that seemed to crossover was when Tuvok joined the Voyager fleet for a period of time. Like I said, it'll be interesting to see if any of the ships or characters from Voyager appear in Coda or if we find out how things eventually turned out, since TNG/Titan/DS9 are several years in the future last we saw.

The “Soul Key” would have been good had it actual shown alternate Kira’s like the book described!

 

[TJames03]

Issue 2 of DC's first TNG miniseries.

omg! Those first TNG comics are horrid!

 

[BillJ]

omg! Those first TNG comics are horrid!

I love them. I was excited every month to get a new issue. Sometimes, Trek is silly and that's okay.

 

[Steve Roby]

I still remember the day I found a large envelope in the mail, and inside it was a photocopy of the uncoloured pages of the first issue of the miniseries with a note from Bob Greenberger saying DC was sending advance copies to the folks who wrote letters of comment to the TOS comic so they could get comments and run a letters column before the miniseries was over. Being a fan can be pretty cool sometimes. And fortunately the first issue wasn’t the Christmas story.

 

[Charles Phipps]

The Andorian transporter duplicates weren't "bad" so much as "a nagging, dangling thread."

As a huge fan of Pava from STARFLEET ACADEMY's Marvel Comics. This was like a personal dagger to my heart.

 

[DGCatAniSiri]

As a huge fan of Pava from STARFLEET ACADEMY's Marvel Comics. This was like a personal dagger to my heart.

Same. I was excited to get an exploration of her, but she was treated as just a plot device in Fallen Gods, and then the whole thing just never got touched on until that brief resolution in Coda.

 

[Charles Phipps]

Same. I was excited to get an exploration of her, but she was treated as just a plot device in Fallen Gods, and then the whole thing just never got touched on until that brief resolution in Coda.

It's the saddest issue of Trek tie-in fiction in that original characters will always probably get the short end of the stick and even popular ones will normally have a very short shelf life. It's rare you get a whole bunch of arcs like the NF, Khitomer, or Vanguard crew.

So if I have a choice for anything to put back in the novels?

A tie for T'Ryssa Chen and Pava!

 

[DrBeverly]

Which one was that? I HAVE to read that.

It's available in this collection, if that's any help to you: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Star-Trek-Classics-Vol-Beginnings-ebook/dp/B00D59O91E

 

[Elias Vaughn]

2. The Denobulan resolution in the Picard biography.

What was this again?

 

[The Wormhole]

What was this again?

The Denobulans transported their homeworld into another dimension. Then years later, the people of the planet Hobus attempted to do the same thing, only they were attacked by Romulans, which ended up triggering the Hobus Supernova. The Picard Autobiography was written before the Picard TV series was a thing and retconned it as the Romulan star going nova, so they stuck with Hobus as established in the Countdown comic there.

 

[20fridge]

The Denobulans transported their homeworld into another dimension. Then years later, the people of the planet Hobus attempted to do the same thing, only they were attacked by Romulans, which ended up triggering the Hobus Supernova. The Picard Autobiography was written before the Picard TV series was a thing and retconned it as the Romulan star going nova, so they stuck with Hobus as established in the Countdown comic there.

I found that whole storyline to be a mixed bag. On the one hand, I thought it was the best explanation for the Hobus supernova at the time and loved the use of

Spoiler: character

Phlox

. On the other, Christopher Bennett's The Buried Age was a far better introduction for Data. I was indifferent to whether this was a good fate for the Denobulans.

 

[Christopher]

On the other, Christopher Bennett's The Buried Age was a far better introduction for Data.

I appreciate it.

I was indifferent to whether this was a good fate for the Denobulans.

I've never understood the idea that the Denobulans needed a "fate" to explain why we didn't see them in later productions. I mean, we hardly ever saw Andorians or Tellarites in TNG, but they were mentioned occasionally so we knew they were around. Besides, ENT established that most Denobulans didn't like to leave their homeworld, so there was already a built-in explanation for why they weren't around much.

Plus, of course, we've now seen Denobulans in Strange New Worlds, Lower Decks, and Prodigy, so it's canonical that they didn't go anywhere.

 

[Charles Phipps]

The Denobulans transported their homeworld into another dimension. Then years later, the people of the planet Hobus attempted to do the same thing, only they were attacked by Romulans, which ended up triggering the Hobus Supernova. The Picard Autobiography was written before the Picard TV series was a thing and retconned it as the Romulan star going nova, so they stuck with Hobus as established in the Countdown comic there.

That was a terrible thing because it made the Federation so unappealing that the Denobulans didn't want to even be in the same dimension as the rest of the races of the Alpha Quadrant.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Are they dating on the show, or is that just hoped for on Facebook groups? I thought they only just began grudgingly accepting each other when the season ended.

Have you seen this forthcoming cover art from IDW?


Star Trek Celebrations by Ian McLean, on Flickr

 

[Bryan Levy]

Sure did see it! I’m pretty sure I made that other post before the most recent season, in which they were most definitely dating.

 

[Corran Horn]

I still remember the day I found a large envelope in the mail, and inside it was a photocopy of the uncoloured pages of the first issue of the miniseries with a note from Bob Greenberger saying DC was sending advance copies to the folks who wrote letters of comment to the TOS comic so they could get comments and run a letters column before the miniseries was over. Being a fan can be pretty cool sometimes. And fortunately the first issue wasn’t the Christmas story.

So from a recent charity auction I won a gift basket from a local comic shop. Among other things in there were some few Star Trek comics. So many names in the letters pages from the psiphi boards back in the day (and now here):

Ian McLean
Robert F. Lyons
Alex Rosenzweig

And actually Alan Sepinwall (critic from Rollingstone now, various places previously) is in issue 26's column back in 1991.

 

[Stevil2001]

So from a recent charity auction I won a gift basket from a local comic shop. Among other things in there were some few Star Trek comics. So many names in the letters pages from the psiphi boards back in the day (and now here):

Ian McLean
Robert F. Lyons
Alex Rosenzweig

And actually Alan Sepinwall (critic from Rollingstone now, various places previously) is in issue 26's column back in 1991.

I found our own @youngtrek in an issue of All-Star Squadron (or was it Infinity, Inc.? I forget), which is how I learned we live in the same town.

My favorite random find, though, was modern sf critic Lisa Yaszek, now a professor at Georgia Tech, who wrote a very enthusiastic letter to Green Lantern: Mosaic back in the 1990s as a graduate student.

 

[Therin of Andor]

So many names in the letters pages from the psiphi boards back in the day (and now here):

Ian McLean.

Oh, very cool! When they published entire addresses, it was a great way to promote fan clubs. We scored quite a few new members through DC's lettercol.