IDW announces crossover: Transformers, G.I. Joe, Trek, Ghostbusters...

[Daddy Todd]

Sweet Jebus, how did I miss THIS horrifying news?

"Like crossovers? Then you're going to love IDW's upcoming event involving Transformers, G.I. Joe, Star Trek, Ghostbusters, and C.V.O. - a crossover event that will be set in continuity and will have lasting effects within each series. "The License holders have been incredibly supportive," editor Tom Waltz said. We have an opportunity to revitalize several older projects that some folks might not have seen because they came to our books later. It's going to be a really challenging project."

Why oh why couldn't Bad Robot kill THIS idea, instead of killing the four Abrahamsverse novels?

I might have just found a convenient jumping-off point from IDW's increasingly disappointing Trek offerings.

Oh, and anyone have any idea what C.V.O. might be? I've never heard of it.

 

[8of5]

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I seem no reason to be pessimistic so far, all we know so far are which series are involved, and the titled "Infestation". It might not even involve any direct crossovers for all we know. If anything the claim it "will have lasting effects within each series" makes me a little hopefully IDW might start doing something with Trek that is actually capable of having a lasting effect!

If it is a direct crossover I hope they manage to add Jurassic Park and Doctor Who to that list of series too!

 

[F. King Daniel]

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Whatever happens, it can't possibly be sillier than Nero merging with V'Ger - even if, by the end, Bumblebee is communications officer of the Enterprise.

 

[C.E. Evans]

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The first thing that comes to my mind is that it'll be something like "Vector", the in-continuity crossover event Dark Horse Comics had with their primary Star Wars titles last year that went from the ancient Knights of the Old Republic era to the post-movie Legacy era.

"Infestation" could be a common villain or group of villains the various IDW books must face.

Oh, and anyone have any idea what C.V.O. might be? I've never heard of it.

C.V.O.=Covert Vampiric Operations.

 

[ryan123450]

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Wow. Weirdest. Idea. Ever.

Also, what kind of "lasting effects" could this have on Trek, especially since IDW has done a minimal amount of continuing storylines as it is? The other series I could understand, but not Trek.

 

[TheAlmanac]

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Whatever happens, it can't possibly be sillier than Nero merging with V'Ger - even if, by the end, Bumblebee is communications officer of the Enterprise.

Oh, please.

If anything, Blaster would be the communications officer, with his tapes as subordinates.

 

[C.E. Evans]

Re: IDW announces crossover: Transformers, G.I. Joe, Trek, Ghostbuster

Wow. Weirdest. Idea. Ever.

Also, what kind of "lasting effects" could this have on Trek, especially since IDW has done a minimal amount of continuing storylines as it is? The other series I could understand, but not Trek.

Maybe an all-new Trek series by IDW is spun out of this (in the way VOY was initially spun out of the Maquis uprising in DS9). Otherwise, I don't think it could have a lasting effect on IDW's Trek books either.

 

[JD]

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I don't know... this sounds a little to strange to me. I'm not saying it absolutely won't work, it just makes me nervous.

 

[SeerSGB]

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Okay...who told IDW that they could mine the fanfiction sites for comic-book ideals?

 

[Sxottlan]

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OOoooooooooookay.

Just for the freak show value, I'll at least skim through it at the store.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

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Why oh why couldn't Bad Robot kill THIS idea, instead of killing the four Abramsverse novels?

For all you know, Bad Robot's involved. No, really. Orci and Kurtzman could have said to IDW, "Y'know, Star Trek and Transformers? Two great tastes that could taste super-mega-great together..." And then they went to J.J., and then a ball started rolling...

I don't know that that's what happened. But it's not impossible or implausible.

There are all sorts of awesome science-fiction worlds that the Enterprise could visit.

When DC had the license, I always hoped for a mission to Thanagar or Oa or possibly even Apokalips. Just imagine Kirk trying to get into a fistfight with Darkseid! Legion prison planet Takron-Galtos was mentioned in one Peter David storyline.

When Marvel had the license, what if the Voyager had encountered Galactus in the Delta Quadrant? (Okay, okay, I admit that I plotted that one out. It was a really cool story, but there was nothing I could do with it.) And I recall some rumors of a Dark Phoenix/Star Trek story somewhere around '97.

For some of the series being tossed around for this crossover, there are some I can see Star Trek working with, and some I can't. Ghostbusters? No. Fucking. Way. But Transformers? There's honestly no reason why Star Trek can't work with Transformers. Maybe the Enterprise goes on a desperate mission to Cybertron. Maybe Unicron's orbiting head finally comes alive and threatens the Federation. Heck, we don't even know which continuities within each franchise are involved.

Seriously. This has the potential to be fun. It even has the potential to be good. Yes, it may sound silly right now, but you're judging it solely on the basis of, well... absolutely nothing.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

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Whatever happens, it can't possibly be sillier than Nero merging with V'Ger...

Or Decker merging with V'Ger...

 

[Daddy Todd]

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Seriously. This has the potential to be fun. It even has the potential to be good. Yes, it may sound silly right now, but you're judging it solely on the basis of, well... absolutely nothing.

Not nothing. I'm judging in based on on the fact that I nave no affection for any of those franchises, except Ghostbusters, which I thought was a fun movie.

I also thought Trading Places was a fun movie, but I don't think it makes a good crossover with Star Trek, either.

 

[Therin of Andor]

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"Spider-Man" went to see ST:TMP in a comic once, a Pocket Star Trek novel once merged "Here Comes the Brides" with TOS ("Ishmael") for a story, Marvel's "She-Hulk" gatecrashed a TOS/TNG movie while it was in production at Major Motion Pictures - and Marvel/Paramount Comics crossed over "X-Men" with Trek twice, and Pocket tied in with "Planet X". What's so different?.

 

[FordSVT]

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Your examples feature Trek as an entertainment product in the comic universe, like it is here. The last example, the X-Men crossover, was just weird. It's not that people think it's any different, it's the fact that it isn't any different that people find strange.

TF and GI Joe (already done), or TF and Trek, or Ghostbusters and Covert Vamp Ops all make a bit of sense, but to put all of them together? It will be interesting to see how they wrangle this, even if it does turn out to be crap.

 

[C.E. Evans]

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Upon thinking about it, the idea of something connecting Star Trek and Ghostbusters isn't that terribly far-fetched.

Trek has done it's share of ghostbusting over the years, but they're usually referred to as "entities". Redjac from TOS comes to mind right now, and it had a rap sheet that spanned centuries and several worlds...

 

[F. King Daniel]

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^The Real Ghostbusters cartoon also did a Star Trek tribute episode, where the 'busters went up to a space station and met a bunch of oddly familiar characters.

Maybe all the other franchises take place on as-yet-undiscovered TOS-style duplicate Earths.

 

[captcalhoun]

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GI Joe and Trek could work... it's not entirely unfeasible for there to have been a certain ophidian-themed terrorist group running amok during the Eugenics Wars, and a certain US commando force running around after them and fighting the forces of the Great Khanate...

throw in a time-travel plot...

 

[JoeZhang]

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I'd rather see Star Trek vs Aliens vs Predator.

 

[ClayinCA]

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Not too fussed about any of this, but I'd love to see a Star Trek/Doctor Who crossover. If memory serves, John Byrne actually wanted to cross over the Third Doctor and his UNIT chums with Gary Seven in his Assignment: Earth mini-series, but the BBC wouldn't let IDW do it.