Brannon Braga writes 4 issue TNG comic!

[Captaindemotion]

I don't get the hate for Brannon Braga. He had his share of bad episodes, like anyone, but he wrote or cowrote a lot of good stuff too. Reunion. Cause and Effect. Frame of Mind. All Good Things. Star Trek First Contact.

Yes. A decent body of work. Many people choose to disregard that and single out the bad stuff in his CV. As if he's the only one with duds among the plums.

And if the thought of BB writing this comic bothers anyone, the solution is quite simple. Don't buy it.

 

[Trekker4747]

The good episodes he wrote were under the tutelage of a better writer. When he does things on his own? We get "Genesis" and "Threshold" and, hell, most of Voyager.

 

[M'rk son of Mogh]

The good episodes he wrote were under the tutelage of a better writer. When he does things on his own? We get "Genesis" and "Threshold" and, hell, most of Voyager.

Or, in TNG, we get Cause and Effect or Parallels, 2 of my favourite episodes.

I thought the TNG forum would have been a bit more forgiving with him since the work on TNG was generally well regarded.

Silly me. To the haters, sorry for posting this.

 

[BillJ]

The good episodes he wrote were under the tutelage of a better writer. When he does things on his own? We get "Genesis" and "Threshold" and, hell, most of Voyager.

Or, in TNG, we get Cause and Effect or Parallels, 2 of my favourite episodes.

I thought the TNG forum would have been a bit more forgiving with him since the work on TNG was generally well regarded.

Silly me. To the haters, sorry for posting this.

Sometimes you fuck up so bad it even sours the positive memories of earlier works. I think that is what is at play with Brannon Braga.

 

[Trekker4747]

Or, in TNG, we get Cause and Effect or Parallels, 2 of my favourite episodes.

I thought the TNG forum would have been a bit more forgiving with him since the work on TNG was generally well regarded.

Silly me. To the haters, sorry for posting this.

In both of those cases Braga was still working under a head-wrtier to guide things. IIRC, in "Cause and Effect" Michael Piller heped to guide Braga's original idea into what it eventually became.

On Voyager Braga was the head writer and could pretty much do whatever he want. Meaning we got continuity nightmares, inconsistencies in the premise and an overuse of The Doctor, Seven, and plot devices to save the day.

 

[The Borg Queen]

The good episodes he wrote were under the tutelage of a better writer. When he does things on his own? We get "Genesis" and "Threshold" and, hell, most of Voyager.

Or, in TNG, we get Cause and Effect or Parallels, 2 of my favourite episodes.

I thought the TNG forum would have been a bit more forgiving with him since the work on TNG was generally well regarded.

Silly me. To the haters, sorry for posting this.

He wasn't his own boss on TNG, hence his record of not-badness.

Voyager... he pretty much got to do his own thing, and it shows.

 

[Tosk]

Silly me. To the haters, sorry for posting this.

Yeesh. It's not "hating" just to have a negative opinion of something.

Did anyone here say that hated everything he's ever done?

 

[Dream]

All Good Things was the ending of TNG for me!

First Contact was the epilogue. There was no more TNG after that!

 

[Kronos]

A story involving time traveling Borg, with Data and Seven of Nine as main characters; his imagination is as strong as ever :P

He must have a checklist he goes over for every story

 

[Trekker4747]

I flipped through at my LCS today. Meh. Can't say it, the art, or the writing in it interested me one bit.

 

[rafterman1701]

I downloaded it and read it already. Seems underdeveloped so far. It might read better as a whole. Braga is credited with story but not the script.

 

[davejames]

It's still early, but right now it's feeling like just a gimmicky rehash of VOY's Scorpion two-parter. Only instead of Species 8472, it's some other alien race who's invading our dimension.

It doesn't help that the Borg have just become utterly boring as an enemy by now.

 

[Trekker4747]

It's still early, but right now it's feeling like just a gimmicky rehash of VOY's Scorpion two-parter. Only instead of Species 8472, it's some other alien race who's invading our dimension.

It doesn't help that the Borg have just become utterly boring as an enemy by now.

That's our Braga!

 

[horatio83]

I don't get the hate for Brannon Braga. He had his share of bad episodes, like anyone, but he wrote or cowrote a lot of good stuff too. Reunion. Cause and Effect. Frame of Mind. All Good Things. Star Trek First Contact.

This. I am not a particular Braga fan, many of his stories have a strange kind of darkness in them but overall he has done solid work for Trek and unlike one of his former colleagues who substituted technobabble with theobabble in his show Braga knew from the very beginning that Trek is sci-fi.

 

[Jeyl]

There was one page that I would like to comment on.

Seven? What kind of Borg vessels are those that are being so easily destroyed?

Seven: This is a Class 4 tactical vessel. Heavily armed. The central plexus is protected by multi-regenerative security fields.

Ok. A single "normal" Borg Cube was capable of wiping out dozens of starfleet ships and almost assimilated Earth TWICE before the crew of the Enterprise did it's magic. This Tactical Borg Cube is supposed to be an all around improvement of the original cube that even Seven hesitates going against. After all, Voyager is only a science vessel that doesn't have the Federation's fleet backing them up or the crew of the Enterprise to give them that magical moment that destroys it with incredible ease. How can Voyager possibly go up again such incredible-

Yes. Voyager, a mere science vessel that was having power issues in it's first two episodes beat the freaking Borg Tactical Cube. And to make it better, Neelix was manning a bridge station. Teleplay by Brannon Braga and some guy named Joe.

The reason I'm making such a big deal about this is because this comic wants me to believe that the Borg are still a serious threat that should be taken seriously. But to show how dangerous this new rehash 8472 aliens are, they are shown destroying tactical cubes. If a Tactical Cube cannot win against a federation science vessel, how am I supposed to believe that it can go up against anything?

 

[USS Intrepid]

Well I read it and enjoyed it, so ;p.

Also Voyager wasn't a science vessel. It was supposedly a light explorer, and according to onscreen dialogue, one built for combat performance.