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Set course with Captain Pike and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise to the Scorpius Constellation as they become the first Federation vessel to explore this uncharted region of space!
Ouch. That is not how constellations work. The known stars in the direction of the sky that we assign to Scorpius range from as near as 17 light years to as far as 32,600 light years.
In the novels, we introduced the convention of "the [Constellation Name] Reach" to refer to the endlessly expanding wedge of space that corresponds to a given constellation, e.g. the Taurus Reach. Or rather, Vanguard introduced the Taurus Reach, and I continued the convention in my novels with references to the Cygnus Reach and, as a matter of fact, the Scorpius Reach.
There appears to be a crucial scene missing between Sons of Star Trek issues 2 and 3.
Issue 2 ends on a cliffhanger with a squad of Breen soldiers confronting Jake, Alexander and Tuvix with Q Junior excitedly telling everyone that "this is the good part". In the next issue, Jake and Tuvix are in a conference room and Q Junior suddenly has no powers anymore. There are no flashbacks in the issue explaining what happened. Did the writers forget to script the scene?
All five stories in Star Trek Celebrations were very boring. Most of them were just slice of life moments that added nothing to the characters they focused on or the wider Star Trek universe. The cover blatantly lied since Culber, Adira and Gray don't appear in any of the stories.
"The Knight Errand" was the most interesting of the stories because it involved first contact with a new species. But 6 pages was nowhere near long enough to flesh out the Vatalon species. I would've liked to see what the Enterprise crew did to offend them instead of hearing about it in Sulu's exposition. Also, the artwork was terrible.
"Lady Luck" is a class reunion story about Raffi and Seven that somehow has even worse art than the previous story. I couldn't take seriously the idea of adult Starfleet captains behaving like high school bullies towards Raffi.
"Facemaker" is a 2250s story about Christine Chapel developing a new way to disguise Starfleet officers as aliens that doesn't involve surgery. Some of the scientific concepts discussed were interesting, but The Enterprise Incident showed Kirk getting surgery to look like a Romulan, so Chapel's research clearly didn't have any impact. It was nice to see Doctor Phlox, but he looks a lot older than he did in "Flesh and Stone", which takes place later.
"Innovation Interruption" is a Discovery story about cybernetic "nano-sized spiders" that were clearly the same size as regular spiders. Enough said.
"Risian Rendezvous" is a Lower Decks story with very little humor.
For a comic meant to celebrate lgbt couples, we saw Shax-T'ana way more than Mariner-Jennifer. And lgbt or not, Mariner is an awful girlfriend: Jennifer is of a species adapted to cold climates, and you take her to the beach? Even after she points this?
Or what we saw in TOS was just a 1960s interpretation of the future and shouldn't be taken as absolutely literal in every detail. If they can update the sets and the costumes, they can update the technology. Maybe the "surgery" McCoy did to Kirk in "The Enterprise Incident" was actually a genetic disguise. We didn't see it happen, so how can we know?
It's the prerogative of long-running fiction series to update themselves. In Marvel Comics, Reed Richards was originally a World War II veteran; now he's a veteran of some unspecified war around the turn of the century. But the comics still pretend that most of what happened in those 1960s stories still happened, just with different details. Canon is not about individual details, it's about the overall narrative.
Still reeling from the battle on Qo’noS, Worf and the Defiant crew have been ordered to return to Starfleet headquarters. Despite their heroic actions, the Federation can’t celebrate the crew’s involvement in the fight against Kahless and the Red Path. In fact, they’re forced to discharge Worf and his crew! With the unspoken, unwritten agreement that they’ll operate with full Starfleet authority… completely off the books. Disavowed from Starfleet, Worf and his crew set out in their new roles as secret bounty hunters for the Federation. Their targets: untouchable criminals protected by treaties and alliances. They’ll take on villains from across Star Trek’s history such as an individualized ex-member of the Borg Collective, a time-traveling con man from The Next Generation, and an alien gangster from Sigma Iotia II. Collects issues #8-11 and the Defiant Annual.
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Welcome to the Pleroma, a place outside time and space where god-level species have gathered to discuss the fate of the universe! It’s up to Captain Sisko and his valiant crew of the U.S.S. Theseus to persuade the gods to allow them to help repair Kahless’ unraveling of space-time-but will they listen to mere mortals responsible for their prophesied undoing?
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Kevin Uxbridge says he caused 15 billion deaths instead of 50 billion. Charles Evans refers to the Thasians as Thalassians and looks nothing like the actor who played him. The Nacene are described and depicted as noncorporeal energy beings and the Caretaker is still alive and well.
The credits list a group editor, an assistant editor and an editorial assistant. Did none of them bother to proofread this comic?
Kevin Uxbridge says he caused 15 billion deaths instead of 50 billion. Charles Evans refers to the Thasians as Thalassians and looks nothing like the actor who played him. The Nacene are described and depicted as noncorporeal energy beings and the Caretaker is still alive and well.
The credits list a group editor, an assistant editor and an editorial assistant. Did none of them bother to proofread this comic?
Thasian is properly spelled earlier on in the comic, so that just seems to be a typo, as for Likeness, maybe they couldn't get permission from the actor's estate
Memory-Alpha lists the Nacene as "at least partially non-corporeal or energy-based". Probably where they got it from
Thasian is properly spelled earlier on in the comic, so that just seems to be a typo, as for Likeness, maybe they couldn't get permission from the actor's estate
Memory-Alpha lists the Nacene as "at least partially non-corporeal or energy-based". Probably where they got it from
If they visited the Memory Alpha Nacene page, they would've seen what Nacene actually look like, which is nothing like what they ended up putting in the comic.
"The Nacene are described and depicted as noncorporeal energy beings and the Caretaker is still alive and well."
And... aren't they? The old man playing the banjo was obviously not the Caretaker's true form, just a form that humans may understand.
As for "being alive and well", the info page lists him as "a non-corporeal species first encountered by USS Voyager", and later he speaks in the first person plural. Meaning, this is another caretaker, not the exact same individual one the Voyager met. It's like the Beyonder from Marvel, first just one-of-a-kind, and later one of a whole species... taking the name of the one we knew, just for convenience.
Of course not, but the Caretaker's true Nacene form in "Caretaker" was not an energy being, but a jellyfish-like blob creature that shrank down into a solid lump upon his death:
If it leaves a corpse, it's corporeal, pretty much by definition.
The Caretaker was described as a sporocystian life form, meaning an organic life form that reproduces through spores. Unfortunately, the writers of "Cold Fire" absurdly referred to Suspiria emitting "sporocystian energy," as if "sporocystian" were just a bit of random technobabble rather than a word with an actual meaning, presumably because they fell into the lazy habit of assuming all advanced Trek aliens have to be energy beings. But no, Nacene were not intended to be noncorporeal, because using the word "sporocystian" for an energy being would be a contradiction in terms. (I choose to believe that the "sporocystian energy" gibberish in "Cold Fire" was just a shorthand for "the specific energy signature we associate with the sporocystian life form called the Caretaker and don't have a better name for.")
It’s now or never for the Defiant crew if they are to survive the parasitic infestation on the isolated Section 31 outpost Starbase 99. But with B’Elanna still connected to both Borg ally Hugh and the parasite hivemind, Nymira nowhere to be found, and a giant portal connecting their reality to a horde of hellish bugs just itching to burrow into each of their brain stems, things are looking dire at best. The third arc of the critically acclaimed series ends here!
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Since it doesn't see to have its own thread I'll just post about it here.
I read the DS9 miniseries Dog of War last week, and I really enjoyed it.
It felt to me like it did a pretty good job of recreating the later seasons of the series, and the characterizations felt pretty right to me. The story was really good too, I liked all of the stuff around the Borg device, and as a dog person I loved all of the stuff with Latinum.
The final chapter! What do you get when you cross three of the Federation’s most celebrated sons with a misguided god? An alternate reality full of lessons that may be just what the doctor ordered. But with Jake Sisko’s enrollment in the Pennington School, Alexander Rozhenko’s prison sentence, and Nog’s first Starfleet posting all fast approaching, they’ll have to move fast to defeat the Breen once and for all if they’re to convince Q Jr. to return them to their home reality.
Since it doesn't see to have its own thread I'll just post about it here.
I read the DS9 miniseries Dog of War last week, and I really enjoyed it.
It felt to me like it did a pretty good job of recreating the later seasons of the series, and the characterizations felt pretty right to me. The story was really good too, I liked all of the stuff around the Borg device, and as a dog person I loved all of the stuff with Latinum.
FYI, SDCC panel, so they will probably be some news about upcoming titles, #500, etc.
SUNDAY, 7/28 11:00-12:00: STAR TREK: BOLDLY EXPLORING THE COMICS panel in Room 7AB with Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing and moderated by IDW Group Editor Heather Antos.
