Are they still making Superman Comics in 2155?

[Guy Gardener]

In the immortal episode Shuttle Pod One, Trip steps up to defend the man of steel from the limey's turned up nose... I believe his defense was "Subtext layered upon Subtext, layered upon subtext."

I'm not talking about Fanpublicated ecomics, or maybe I am? but since there's no money anymore how do they control copywrite laws and creative licensing that there ain't protestants and factions and denominations of Superman Comics? ...But printed on Paper Comic books about Superman following some wrote or succession of continuity, are they still being made in such a way that comics are being circulated throughout whatever margin of the public is interested?

of course Khan might have stained the name a little?

 

[Pensive]

Comic books could still exist, but on PADDs or something similar. They don't necessarily have to be on paper.

Also, paper books are still published, even though many of us spend our time reading things on the internets or on a computer.

 

[commodore64]

I hope so!

 

[Jack Bauer]

Tom Paris read comic books so they must still exist even in ENT's time. And I think they still used money in the ENT era. It's just the TNG era where money no longer existed.

 

[ChristopherPike]

Well certainly movies do, beyond the public domaine material shown by Trip in the mess hall.

Films all about WWIII swept the Oscars according to the episode 'Home'. Supes was probably again used as propaganda like in those Fleischer cartoons. See the Man of Steel whoop Bin Laden's butt etc...

 

[Guy Gardener]

In Enterprise, they went on several times about having a "free economy" most notably in Shadows of P'Jem, where Tucker was amazed by the shanty town surrounding the Capital of Corriden. Kirk said there was no money in the 23rd century in Star trek Movie IV, and Tom Paris said "Well, er, when the New World Economy took shape in the late twenty second century and money went the way of the dinosaur, Fort Knox was turned into a museum." in Dark Frontier... And we would have to guess that the new economy fell into place probably at pace with final formation of the completed United Earth Government in 2150 according to Beverly in TNG Attached... Although there has been mention of "Federation Credits" it has always been as a medium for the Federation to interact with other cultures which still do use a capitalistic economy, since Quark has said that the federation always pays their bills and was even threatened once with having to pay rent on his bar retroactively from when the federation took over the running of DS9. Money is a double standard in the future.

Money isn't the issue though, it's about "ownership". If Earth had really become bunch of tree hugging commies, then nodding your cap to "creators" of this and that, credit, avoiding plagiarism would be a courtesy ... You'd have to wonder if a lot of stuff was just instantly kicked into the "public domain" that anyone could write and publish Superman comics willy nilly without Time Warner's lawyers locking onto their genitals like a pitbull.

As far as digital comics go, the piracy issues surrounding comic books are EXTREME... Halfway through every Wednesday in America, almost all the new comic books issued that day are already online free of charge offered by pirates believing they are monks illuminating manuscripts that might possibly be lost by a careless civilization...

Tom and Charles as boys could easily have read OLD Superman comics, because with a decent Broadband connection I could download just about every Superman comic ever made in a day, and %90 of them are already online, but were they reading NEW Superman comics?

And considering the comic medium tries to stay contemporary, what exactly would a Superman comic retconned to be contemporarily set in the 22nd or 24th century look like, if they all weren't historical works set in the 20th century?

Remember that Phantom cartoon set in 22nd century?

Time is hilarious.

 

[Nebusj]

I just hope they go back to making the comics where every insane idea Julius Schwarz ever dreamed up gets infliced on Jimmy Olsen. (``Jimmy Olsen's an anthropomorphized squid with magical powers over anything that's wiggly! And he's fighting Robin Hood! In Medieval Venice Of Outer Space!'')

 

[Admiral_Young]

We do know that the Federation has somesort of economy based system still, and remember that the Doctor from Voyager had problems trying to get his holo-novel published so I assume that there are still some kind of creative liscening/copyright laws out there. The question though should be does DC and Marvel still exsist? Joe Q is running around as a cyborg publisher!!!

 

[Unicron]

They'll still be making Superman comics in 2965.

 

[Trekwatcher]

While the dramatic reasons for having cast members interested in 20th and early 21st century mass media/pop culture phenomena were obvious, this always struck me as ridiculous. I.e. Trip and Superman, Tom Paris and Harry Kim with Captain Proton (standing in for Flash Gordon, etc), Picard with Dixon Hill, etc, were just there so we could better "relate" to the characters and possibly have some common interests. Still, this always was a big reach for me.

How many people today are AVIDLY interested in books from the year 1650? Sure, we all read Dickens and Chaucer in high school, but do we want to play in those worlds? Also, why were they never avid fans of movies/books etc from their OWN TIMES, like most people are? Why was movie night on ENT never a current movie made in 2155?

With the exception of Anton Karidian in "The Conscience of the King" and Naomi Wildman playing with Flotter, there are almost no references to contemporary (i.e. in the timeframe of the show) actors/writers/performers etc in any trek series.

 

[Guy Gardener]

In ENT Home: Hernandez said they'd made a couple new Movies about World War IV. And in DS9 they said that a very popular holonovel was Vulcan Love Slave II THE REVENGE! ...Surely database of Federation Fiction which Janeway refused to trade for forbidden transporter technology had to have had a few contempory books in it, even if she still had to embrace a holonovel of Jane Eyre rather than actually reading the book and be oblivious to the conclusion. meanwhile as mentioned already, the doctor was able to get into print and various "memoirs" of earlier characters were mentioned through out the "serieses" so it's not hard to become a celebrity, is it?

I just want to say two more words "Robin Hood".