My favorite was a short-lived TV show called Detroit 187 about a team of homicide investigators in Detroit. Except "187" is the code for a murder in the LAPD. It is not the code for murder for the Detroit PD.
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Much like CSI: NY, when the NYPD crime lab is actually called CSU (Crime Scene Unit). And that's not even getting into the insanity of CSI: Cyber, which wasn't even about anything CSI-adjacent.
I'm more willing to forgive CSI:NY because it was part of an existing popular franchise. The producers knew that it was really CSU, but they couldn't call it that because it was the third show in a sprawling franchise.
The creators of Detroit 187 genuinely didn't know that other municipalities used different codes, a level of ignorance that didn't really become writers of a police procedural.....
The creators of Detroit 187 genuinely didn't know that other municipalities used different codes, a level of ignorance that didn't really become writers of a police procedural.....
I actually liked some of the Gold Key depictions of the transporter rooms in that they were more elaborate:According to Dax's Comet, there's one of those gigantic airlock cogs in Ops.
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I guessed they had some special purpose growing up
They're always very consistent with the look and I've been wondering what they based it on for years.
Maybe if they'd actually had that many people in the room operating the transporter, fewer accidents would have happened.
Nahhh...more likely than not, they would be fully stocked with exploding consoles.
Nahhh...more likely than not, they would be fully stocked with exploding consoles.
It's an old classic that many have seen before, but still worth a share...
Yes. Pablo Marcos toned the musculature way down on the regular TNG book after that. (This was from the first issue of the six-issue TNG miniseries from DC that came out when the show was still in its first season. So about all writer Mike Carlin & artist Pablo Marcos were working from initially were the TNG Writers' Guide, the "Encounter at Farpoint" script, and a few stills.)
I'll have to ask my friend Bob Greenberger if the adjustment on the musculature was his directive as editor, or a request from Paramount.
Script by Peter David, Art by Pablo Marcos.From the TNG comic "The Modala Imperative"
Let's try to give the writers and artists credit wherever we can, please!
@JonnyQuest037 I'm sure they were flattered. 
To be fair, if anyone on the Enterprise spends time on their glamor muscles...
Zardoz Riker!From the TNG comic "The Modala Imperative"
I am absolutely convinced that Riker wore the skant uniform from time to time -- we just never saw it -- and I find this highly suggestive in that direction. I think Picard probably told him to lay off the skant when he mounted the Ready Room chair and flashed Picard one too many times as he sat.
It's more flattering if you mention their names.@JonnyQuest037 I'm sure they were flattered.
I like that there was the comic where Picard had a brother who died at age six, and Q alters the timeline to save him, and so Claude grows up...and becomes the head of a neo-nazi type organisation that takes over Earth and Starfleet and wreaks havoc on the galaxy. Nice one
"The Gift," by John DeLancie, Michael Jan Friedman, and Gordon Purcell. I was thinking of that story just yesterday. I like to think, we everything we now know, that it still works.
If you mean continuity-wise, I don't see how, unless it's in an alternate timeline. It names Picard's parents Claude and Christine, has them both alive and living in an urban (probably Parisian) apartment in 2332, and gives no indication that Robert exists.
That's all window dressing to the basic story. Nothing that couldn't be changed in a rewrite if it was being adapted to another medium.
Adapting "The Gift" would have made a far better Picard season 2