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IDW announces Doctor Who/TNG crossover

^ Are you kidding? Of course you're not. Assimilation Squared is kind of a meh title in my opinion but I guess it'll have to do.


Eight issues long. Three more than the LOSH/Star Trek crossover. So Tony Lee is at least collaborating. That's a beautiful cover as well.
 
Interesting. I guess the board doesn't allow for superscript characters. I could have sworn that it did. I guess Assimilation^2 will need to suffice.
 
Allyn Gibson said:
Christopher said:
Allyn Gibson said:
the Lives of Dax is basically a Doctor Who anthology, which each Dax's story corresponding to the equivalent Doctor. The second Dax story is Troughton-esque, the fourth Dax story is like the Hinchliffe/Holmes era, the sixth Dax story is obviously about a mentally unstable, homicidal Dax. And there's a regeneration story, too.
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And the third is Earthbound. Though that seems like cherrypicking to fit a desired pattern rather than a built-in feature.
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I know that Marco has said it wasn't intentional, but the way the stories break down...

First Dax (Lela) -- Rebels and leaves homeworld
Second Dax (Tobin) -- Acts like a jokester
Third Dax (Emony) -- Earthbound and a woman of action
Fourth Dax (Audrid) -- Gothic horror
Fifth Dax (Torias) -- Self-sacrificing
Sixth Dax (Joran Belar) -- Passionate and homicidal
Seventh Dax (Curzon) -- A manipulative bastard

I've blanked on the eighth Dax (Jadzia) story in the book, and the ninth Dax story (Ezri) is a regeneration story.
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As interesting as this comparison is, I'm afraid I've never had enough knowledge of Doctor Who to draw these connections.
 
Heh, actually as a software guy I'm not all that fond of the German keyboard layout, it makes typing C-style programming language syntax a lot more cumbersome compared to the US layout. But it's what I grew up with and I can't be arsed to get used to a different layout, so I stick with it.

A more layout-independent solution to typing a superscript 2 is the compose key feature of most non-Windows operating systems (hit Compose, then ^, then 2), and I guess on Windows you can use some sort of arcane Alt+digits code.

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As cool as this is, I'm not personally interested in material that doesn't add continuity which is to be taken seriously. That said, I'm glad they are doing a TNG era story, at least.
 
As I mentioned earlier the Star Trek/LOSH went out of it's way to reference previous continuity for both franchises and set it where long term fans and even causal fans would be able to recognize where the crossover takes place. Chris Roberson the writer has proven his knowledge of both continuities and to me personally the Legion/Star Trek crossover could easily take place in season two of "Star Trek". I'd have to go back and still find the reference of when it does actually take place for the TOS crew. I imagine that the writers of this will do the same.
 
it would probably be either in it's fourth or fifth year to be on the safe side.

eight issue mini series is fantastic and by the title I am assuming that we are either dealing with the borg or cybermen which is great.
 
I know this is going to sound bad, but for years I had the idea of a crossover between TNG and Doctor Who and the baddies would be the Borg and the Cybermen because of the similarity between the two races.

So if you ever hear of a Superman/Doctor Who crossover, you'll know it was my idea first!
 
Captain Randy Hall said:
I know this is going to sound bad, but for years I had the idea of a crossover between TNG and Doctor Who and the baddies would be the Borg and the Cybermen because of the similarity between the two races.
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You and eleventy thousand other fans, I bet. It's not exactly a hard idea to think of.

Let me know when they do the Ferengi-Usurian teamup. Or Silurian-Gorn. Or Harry Mudd-Sabalom Glitz!
 
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