Comics/novels that feel like the films/series?

[Allyn Gibson]

IDW just reprinted DC's TNG Annual #1, "The Gift," written by John deLancie (with help from Michael Jan Friedman), in which Q gives Jean-Luc Picard a gift -- a world in which his younger brother Claude never died. I've always been fond of this story, which prefigures "Tapestry" to some extent (Q letting Picard live a life where something went different), and the reprint looks nice (though Data isn't sufficiently pale).

 

[dupersuper]

Some that I feel felt like an episode (or perhaps ones I just wanted to see adapted into episodes or movies):

Novels
Q-Squared
Imzadi
Vendetta
The Ashes of Eden
The Return
Art of the Impossible
The Sundered
The Battle of Betazed
Federation
The Pandora Principle
The Captain's Daughter
Serpents Among the Ruins
Catalyst of Sorrows
Cloak
Abyss
Resistance
The Left Hand of Destiny
Last Full Measure
The Good That Men Do

Comics
Early Voyages
Hive
The Khitomer Conflict
The Gorn Crisis
IDW Mirror Universe comics
Alien: Spotlight (some of these would be nice Short Trek adaptations)
Captain's Log (ditto for these)

I agree with so much on this, but then you go and put Hive on it. I could barely finish that dreck.

 

[DarKush]

I agree with so much on this, but then you go and put Hive on it. I could barely finish that dreck.

Ha.
I got to defend Hive. Good artwork, interesting enough story and look at what Trek's future could've been. I liked it a whole lot better than ST: Picard's first season.

 

[dupersuper]

Ha.
I got to defend Hive. Good artwork, interesting enough story and look at what Trek's future could've been. I liked it a whole lot better than ST: Picard's first season.

I have no issue with the art, but the "story" left a lot to be desired, and it would be a chilling look at Treks future (maybe better than Picard season 1, but that's one low bar.

 

[Danlav05]

Some that I feel felt like an episode (or perhaps ones I just wanted to see adapted into episodes or movies):

Novels
Q-Squared
Imzadi
Vendetta
The Ashes of Eden
The Return
Art of the Impossible
The Sundered
The Battle of Betazed
Federation
The Pandora Principle
The Captain's Daughter
Serpents Among the Ruins
Catalyst of Sorrows
Cloak
Abyss
Resistance
The Left Hand of Destiny
Last Full Measure
The Good That Men Do

Comics
Early Voyages
Hive
The Khitomer Conflict
The Gorn Crisis
IDW Mirror Universe comics
Alien: Spotlight (some of these would be nice Short Trek adaptations)
Captain's Log (ditto for these)

You don’t narrow it down!

good choices, I’m loving the Shatnerverse books at the minute, Spectrre next.

I see you have some of the Lost Era tales, a fascinating era.
You could easily imagine some of the IDW Kelvin timeline comics as films. Most of them in fact.

weighing in on Hive, yes the story let it down. The art was especially good, I especially loved the meeting of Captains and the Titan bridge. Yes Bragawas co writer but I hated the ending for two characters.

 

[JD]

I'm another big fan of Hive, both the story and the art.

IDW just reprinted DC's TNG Annual #1, "The Gift," written by John deLancie (with help from Michael Jan Friedman), in which Q gives Jean-Luc Picard a gift -- a world in which his younger brother Claude never died. I've always been fond of this story, which prefigures "Tapestry" to some extent (Q letting Picard live a life where something went different), and the reprint looks nice (though Data isn't sufficiently pale).

Was this before they introduced Robert, or was this a second brother?

 

[Christopher]

Was this before they introduced Robert, or was this a second brother?

It came out months before "Family." The DC Database lists its cover date as August 1990 (annuals don't have cover months, but they mean it was released at the same time as the August books), which means it probably went on sale around April '90, and "Family" aired in October '90.

 

[Stevil2001]

The GCD gives the on sale date as July 5.

 

[Indysolo]

It was definitely summer 1990. I remember it well.

 

[Khan 2.0]

IDW just reprinted DC's TNG Annual #1, "The Gift," written by John deLancie (with help from Michael Jan Friedman), in which Q gives Jean-Luc Picard a gift -- a world in which his younger brother Claude never died. I've always been fond of this story, which prefigures "Tapestry" to some extent (Q letting Picard live a life where something went different), and the reprint looks nice (though Data isn't sufficiently pale).

When the s2 trailer was released that annual actually came to mind from vague memories in the early 90s (had it as a reprint in the UK fortnightly TNG magazine ) along with Tapestry, AGT, Christmas Carol ,

 

[Christopher]

The GCD gives the on sale date as July 5.

Is that direct or newsstand? It definitely has the same interior and back-cover ads as the August '90 DC issues, which in my experience would've gone on sale in April. (That's why the letters at the back of a given comic were typically about the issue from 4 months before.) But I checked the GCD for the corresponding monthly issue, TNG #11, and it gives a July 12 date for the direct edition and no specific date for the newsstand edition.

The back cover ad for that month's issues was for a movie that came out on July 20 (Navy SEALs with Charlie Sheen). I'm not sure whether that argues in favor of a July release or against it (depending on how far in advance they prefer to advertise movies).

Well, in any case, the important part is that the issue was written well before Robert Picard was introduced on the show. (Or Robert Picardo, for that matter...)

 

[F. King Daniel]

IDW just reprinted DC's TNG Annual #1, "The Gift," written by John deLancie (with help from Michael Jan Friedman), in which Q gives Jean-Luc Picard a gift -- a world in which his younger brother Claude never died. I've always been fond of this story, which prefigures "Tapestry" to some extent (Q letting Picard live a life where something went different), and the reprint looks nice (though Data isn't sufficiently pale).

And that story was the first thing I thought of when I saw the latest Picard season two spy pic...

 

[Danlav05]

I love how the comics took artistic licence on drawing Q. In the robes all starry and in a pink not red uniform

 

[Khan 2.0]

reprint cover

The Trek Collective: The Gift and First Contact comic previews

 

[Allyn Gibson]

J.K. Woodward's recreation of Jerome K. Moore's original is impressive. (A logoless version has been my phone wallpaper for a couple of months now.) Picard's face is slightly different between the Woodward and Moore covers; Moore's is slightly sour, Woodward's is a little warmer. It was always a great piece of work.

 

[Jedi Marso]

Star Trek Vanguard was a book series that captured the spirit of TOS for me, and I'd have loved to see it done as a mini-series with the same production values seen in projects like New Voyages or Axanar. (Meaning actual TOS production aesthetics)

 

[Christopher]

J.K. Woodward's recreation of Jerome K. Moore's original is impressive. (A logoless version has been my phone wallpaper for a couple of months now.) Picard's face is slightly different between the Woodward and Moore covers; Moore's is slightly sour, Woodward's is a little warmer. It was always a great piece of work.

Hm. Woodward's version looks a bit colder to me. Although it seems they're from the same pencils, just painted in this case and inked in the original.

Also, the angle on the Enterprise is a little different; on Moore's cover, the "01" was behind Picard's head. Actually I think Woodward's version of the ship is inaccurate; it's missing the edge between the curved and flat portions of the saucer underside, though otherwise it's more detailed than Moore's version.

 

[DarKush]

You don’t narrow it down!

good choices, I’m loving the Shatnerverse books at the minute, Spectrre next.

I see you have some of the Lost Era tales, a fascinating era.
You could easily imagine some of the IDW Kelvin timeline comics as films. Most of them in fact.

weighing in on Hive, yes the story let it down. The art was especially good, I especially loved the meeting of Captains and the Titan bridge. Yes Bragawas co writer but I hated the ending for two characters.

Thanks. There's a lot of Trek novels and comics that I think would make good movies or episodes, if not series considering novel series like Stargazer, New Frontier, and Vanguard, and comic series like Early Voyages, Starfleet Academy and Boldly Go.

If I thought a bit more I could come up with even more selections. The TNG novel Crossover just came to mind. Another is Excelsior: Forged in Fire. The DS9 novels from Avatar to Unity could make a good season or two or three of a DS9 revival series. I also liked Starfleet: Year One, and wished that had influenced ENT. I thought DISCO's "Succession"

Spoiler

made for a better return to the Mirror Universe than we actually got,

and I also thought a beefed up "Aftermath" would work to get Strange New Worlds started.

 

[JD]

Is that direct or newsstand? It definitely has the same interior and back-cover ads as the August '90 DC issues, which in my experience would've gone on sale in April. (That's why the letters at the back of a given comic were typically about the issue from 4 months before.) But I checked the GCD for the corresponding monthly issue, TNG #11, and it gives a July 12 date for the direct edition and no specific date for the newsstand edition.

The back cover ad for that month's issues was for a movie that came out on July 20 (Navy SEALs with Charlie Sheen). I'm not sure whether that argues in favor of a July release or against it (depending on how far in advance they prefer to advertise movies).

Well, in any case, the important part is that the issue was written well before Robert Picard was introduced on the show. (Or Robert Picardo, for that matter...)

OK.

Star Trek Vanguard was a book series that captured the spirit of TOS for me, and I'd have loved to see it done as a mini-series with the same production values seen in projects like New Voyages or Axanar. (Meaning actual TOS production aesthetics)

I'm kind of surprised to hear someone say this, I thought Vanguard felt very, very different from TOS. That was actually one of the things I like about it, that it showed us a different side of the TOS era that we hadn't seen on screen at that point.

 

[Jedi Marso]

I'm kind of surprised to hear someone say this, I thought Vanguard felt very, very different from TOS. That was actually one of the things I like about it, that it showed us a different side of the TOS era that we hadn't seen on screen at that point.

It was a different side of TOS, but at the same time it WAS very much TOS. At least that's how I felt about it while reading it.