Well that was certainly different...

[Candleicious Ghost]

Some kind of weird fanfic or something. I've been following this and well it's a thing alright..

Story was a fanfiction comic mixing various Trek periods and characters. I won't say more as to not spoil it.

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[FredH]

…and a lot of the comments on that page are about as loudly, hootingly dumb as I’d expect them to be. While it’s not the story I’d have written (and having recreated Kirk, isn’t Jurati essentially his mother?), the moment in question isn’t much different from similar instances in TOS (and I’ll be very surprised if it has much more longevity or consequences than those did). As ever, people are primed to find reasons to shout “Berman Lucas Davies Kurtzman-who-didn’t-even-write-this-thing is Drek!”, so they do.

““When someone seeks,” said Siddhartha, “then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing that he seeks, and he is able to find nothing, to take in nothing because he always thinks only about the thing he is seeking, because he has one goal, because he is obsessed with his goal.”
— Hesse

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

…and a lot of the comments on that page are about as loudly, hootingly dumb as I’d expect them to be. While it’s not the story I’d have written (and having recreated Kirk, isn’t Jurati essentially his mother?), the moment in question isn’t much different from similar instances in TOS (and I’ll be very surprised if it has much more longevity or consequences than those did).

Fair point. The whole story is rather silly though and I thought they were bold to go where they went linking Kirk to the Picard era

 

[FredH]

Fair point. The whole story is rather silly though and I thought they were bold to go where they went linking Kirk to the Picard era

The story as a whole certainly takes a different approach than I would have, but that’s their call. The opening of the first issue had Sato essentially telling the Gorn “Everybody else has joined, so you should too… or else,” whether or not he or the writers quite realized that’s what they were doing. I also find it weird that everybody’s so distrustful of the Jurati Borg in the 30th century, when way back in the 25th it sure looked like they were about to become provisional Federation members. But again, I figure judge their story on its own merits, rather than “They didn’t do what I think they should have!”

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

The story as a whole certainly takes a different approach than I would have, but that’s their call. The opening of the first issue had Sato essentially telling the Gorn “Everybody else has joined, so you should too… or else,” whether or not he or the writers quite realized that’s what they were doing. I also find it weird that everybody’s so distrustful of the Jurati Borg in the 30th century, when way back in the 25th it sure looked like they were about to become provisional Federation members. But again, I figure judge their story on its own merits, rather than “They didn’t do what I think they should have!”

That's fair enough.... I thought that bit weird but hey it's their prerogative as the author I guess.

 

[Maurice]

Be nice if you said something instead of driving us off-site to find out what the nominal subject is.

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

Be nice if you said something instead of driving us off-site to find out what the nominal subject is.

I edited sorry

 

[Just a Bill]

Would also be nice if this was in a more appropriate forum. Fan Art seems the right one? "Mixing various Trek periods and characters" doesn't really feel like a TOS topic. And yeah, like Maurice said, I had to go subject myself to random nonsense just to find out. But to be fair, that part's on me; I really need to learn that it's okay to just walk on past ambiguous clickbaity headlines.

 

[1001001]

What the hell am I looking at?

 

[Charlie Xmas]

What the hell am I looking at?

Should I click on it?

 

[1001001]

I guess this is about a comic book?

Whatever it is, it doesn't belong in TOS.

Would also be nice if this was in a more appropriate forum. Fan Art seems the right one? "

That seems as good a place as any.

 

[Adventerprise]

In Treklit, there's a discussion about "The Last Starship", the series this is speaking about.

 

[Santa Kang]

In Treklit, there's a discussion about "The Last Starship", the series this is speaking about.

Oh, is that what this was about? Definitely TrekLit not fanfic.

Comments are pretty hilarious. Usual rants about Kurtzman. And at least one person calling it "official". As if comic books have ever been official

 

[1001001]

In Treklit, there's a discussion about "The Last Starship", the series this is speaking about.

Thanks.

I don’t follow any of this stuff.

If it’s being discussed in Trek Lit then I’ll move it again. If the Mod there wants to merge it with the existing thread then they can do that.

Either way…moving again!

 

[David cgc]

As if comic books have ever been official

They're official (as in Paramount/CBS/Whoever Owns Star Trek This Week says "Give us some money and let us read them first to make sure you aren't doing anything that makes us look bad, and you're allowed to make Star Trek comics"), but not canon.

 

[tenmei]

The opening of the first issue had Sato essentially telling the Gorn “Everybody else has joined, so you should too… or else,” whether or not he or the writers quite realized that’s what they were doing.

"Or else"? Sato literally says that if the Gorn refuse to join the Federation, they will face no reprisal, other than Sato's disappointment. It's about the furthest you could get from gunboat diplomacy.