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Comics/novels that feel like the films/series?

Danlav05

Danlav05

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Inspired by @Khan 2.0 thread about The Ashes of Eden graphic novel, which literary publications feel the msot like their on-screen counterparts?

The stand-outs; The Ashes of Eden I fully agree feels like reading the adaptation of a lost 7th TOS movie, likewise The Next Generation/Deep Space Nine mini from Malibu/DC felt very much like the showso f the time, ahd they done a big crossover storyline.

IDW's TNG Hive also captures the actors' likenesses well, just post-Nemesis (and the resolution is just as disappointing!)
 
DC Annual 2 Kirk at the Academy feels like an adaptation of the Bennett SFA Trek VI and came out around the time of VI (and the VI DC adaptation.. think I remember buying them the same day)

Countdown feels like an adaptation of a ST09 prequel that was fast tracked for summer 2011 release (starring Nimoy, Bana, Stewart, Spiner. directed by Frakes) after the unexpected (US) success of ST09
 
A few comics spring to mind: IDW's Alien Spotlight: Borg is quite cinematic, both in the epicness of what the Borg are up to, and the very small scale intimate ending.

Wildstorm's Voyager: Planet Killer miniseries would have made a fun and nostalgic 2-parter or Voyager movie.

IDW's Crew, featuring the early career of Number One would work quite well as a modern limited TV series (maybe a bit more expanded and with a bit more of an overall arc).

Also from John Byrne, Assignment: Earth is the realisation of the spin-off Gary Seven TV series we never got.

And Marvel's Early Voyages is basically being made right now in the form of Strange New Worlds (if the TV series is half as good as the comics it will be amazing).

From novels, Titan springs to mind as being a great TV series in waiting, quite episodic but with overall arcs (maybe what Strange New Worlds is about to become).

And The Buried Age would make a really fun TNG prequel miniseries, with a recast young Picard.
 
8of5 said:
Also from John Byrne, Assignment: Earth is the realisation of the spin-off Gary Seven TV series we never got.
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To an extent, but I think the kind of stories Byrne told would've been the kind of big story the show would only have done once or twice a season, in between a lot of smaller-scale, more intimate stories. (Indeed, I think it jumps forward about a year per issue anyway, so it's like the highlights of a multi-season series.) I've read the series prospectus (pitch document), and I get the sense that it would've been the kind of "light" sci-fi show where many of the stories were fairly basic dramas and thrillers and the only SF elements were the technologies or superpowers the heroes used to solve the problems.

The prospectus specifically critiqued Quinn Martin's The Invaders for focusing on alien threats instead of relatable human antagonists and human-generated crises. Only the first and fifth issues of the comic fit that bill, but a 1960s-70s show would never have done an episode portraying President Nixon openly, let alone so mockingly (they'd either have had a fictitious president or an offscreen, unnamed president). So I think the first issue is the one that best captures what the show would've been like. Although the fourth issue, delving into Gary's masters and the fate of the preceding agents, is probably something they would've done sooner or later as a special episode, though certainly with less exotic-looking aliens. (It might've been more like the climax of The Questor Tapes, which was basically Roddenberry's third try at the Assignment: Earth concept, after the original 1966 half-hour pilot script and the version reworked for TOS.)
 
I saw the thread title and my first thought was "Worldsinger", issue 16 of DC's second "Star Trek" line. Doing a 5 year mission story at the time was unique and the art is spot on.
 
Indysolo said:
I saw the thread title and my first thought was "Worldsinger", issue 16 of DC's second "Star Trek" line. Doing a 5 year mission story at the time was unique and the art is spot on.
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Also notable for being the only published Star Trek work written by Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski.
 
8of5 said:
Also from John Byrne, Assignment: Earth is the realisation of the spin-off Gary Seven TV series we never got.
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I'd be surprised if the current production heads haven't discussed this at least once!

And Marvel's Early Voyages is basically being made right now in the form of Strange New Worlds (if the TV series is half as good as the comics it will be amazing).
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SNW is unusual as effectively it's not exactly a new idea. In fact it's the oldest idea in Trek history! Books have also covered this period

From novels, Titan springs to mind as being a great TV series in waiting, quite episodic but with overall arcs (maybe what Strange New Worlds is about to become).
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Of all the novel series I've read about so far this is the one I wish was on screen. I guess with the Lower Decks finale we're kind of close?

And The Buried Age would make a really fun TNG prequel miniseries, with a recast young Picard.
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They'll do a Picard prequel one day.
 
Even though it's not actually based on one of the series, SCE/Corps of Engineers is probably the (e-)book series that feels most like the TV shows.
 
JD said:
Even though it's not actually based on one of the series, SCE/Corps of Engineers is probably the (e-)book series that feels most like the TV shows.
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I always thought it felt more like a comic book series, with the serialized character arcs tying the episodic plots together.
 
Yeah, but a lot of the more episodic TV shows, like the NCISs and CSIs do the same kind of thing.
 
JD said:
Yeah, but a lot of the more episodic TV shows, like the NCISs and CSIs do the same kind of thing.
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It's just that it's a particular kind of serialization and storytelling approach that feels more like the classic Marvel (and later DC) formula than anything specific to TV. And I'm pretty sure that was intentional on KRAD's part.
 
Christopher said:
It's just that it's a particular kind of serialization and storytelling approach that feels more like the classic Marvel (and later DC) formula than anything specific to TV. And I'm pretty sure that was intentional on KRAD's part.
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To some extent, yeah, though I was also thinking of it at least a little in terms of the way an ongoing TV series would develop.....
 
Ongoings running concurrently with a show usually feel quite like it - DC's TNG, Malibu's DS9 and IDW Star Trek Ongoing and Boldly Go (following the 2009 movie) come to mind
 
I've always really enjoyed DC TNG #71-75, War and Madness. It involved the klingons, tholians and Hugh's cutoff borg. It had a great cinematic feel to it.
 
Khan 2.0 said:
Countdown feels like an adaptation of a ST09 prequel that was fast tracked for summer 2011 release (starring Nimoy, Bana, Stewart, Spiner. directed by Frakes) after the unexpected (US) success of ST09
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Not all the characters are in there but this fan trailer could just about fit the idea?
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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)
 
Ziyal's Ghost said:
I thought the TNG Pocket Book, "Q-in-Law" felt like an actual comedic episode.
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Especially the audio book, with Majel and John chewing up the scenery.

I found myself reminded of the second DC Comics Annual (Series 1) when "Star Trek: Discovery" revisited Talos IV in its second season.

The "Alien Spotlight: Andorians" comic would make a great episode, as would "Andor: Paradigm" in "Worlds of DS9".
 
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