Just wondered, how many references to STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE have been made in the new Trek comics by IDW? The only one I've noticed so far is in the first issue of the Klingons: Blood Will Tell miniseries where there's a very brief flashback to the events of "Affliction/Divergence". Have the writers avoided making too many references due to the show's relative unpopularity with fans?
ENTERPRISE references in IDW comics?
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As stated, Blood Will Tell references the "Affliction"/"Divergence" backstory. Alien Spotlight: Vulcans mentions Vulcans having served on Starfleet vessels before. Alien Spotlight: Andorians uses the ENT-style Andorian design, the terms "Andoria" and "pink-skins," the concept of Andoria as an ice planet, architecture like that seen in "The Aenar," and the ushaan-tor weapons (which, yes, come from an RPG supplement, but I assume the specific look comes from ENT's production designers). AS: Orions alludes to Orion females' pheromonal control and uses the ENT-style design for its Tellarite characters. Intelligence Gathering uses ENT-style Andorians and Rigelians.
Regardless of its popularity, ENT is part of the tapestry of the Trek universe now, and writers will draw on whatever of its concepts they find worth using.
Regardless of its popularity, ENT is part of the tapestry of the Trek universe now, and writers will draw on whatever of its concepts they find worth using.
And sometimes, we'll do it just because we know it'll rile up the more extremist segments of anti-ENT fandom
And sometimes, we'll do it just because we know it'll rile up the more extremist segments of anti-ENT fandom
I rather liked Enterprise, more so that Voyager on occasions
I rather liked Enterprise, more so that Voyager on occasions
Here. Here. The characters of ENT, especially the Big Three and Phlox, to be much more interesting and likable than the ones on VOY. While I disagree with the choices made by TPTB, I can still sit down and watch ENT more than I can ever sit down and watch VOY.
Too bad. I'd love to see them do some DSN stuff to tie-in with the re-launch novels. Especialy if they got John Byrne to work on it.
That isn't likely to happen. Byrne, by all accounts, hates doing character likenesses (note the contortions he went to in order to avoid showing the faces of the Enterprise crew in Assignment: Earth), so I couldn't see him going for a DS9 comic.
Anyhow, IDW would need to negotiate a new license for it to happen.
Anyhow, IDW would need to negotiate a new license for it to happen.
With a cameo by Phlox, IIRC.
Not everything can be a reference. Every now and then you have to make new stuff too.
^ Thanks for the tip. 
It's also unlikely since Byrne is only a fan of TOS and pretty much only TV era TOS at that.
Also while Byrne isn't fond of doing likenesses I think a lot of his issues with doing licensed work that deals with the principles of the work (Kirk and Spock as opposed to Gary Seven for instance) stems from a really bad experience with the Lucasfilm licensing department on Marvel's The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones.
^^Byrne doesn't completely avoid doing likenesses. He illustrated a brief story in the Angel: After the Fall series from IDW. True, the characters looked more like John Byrne drawings than like the actors from the show, but at least you could tell who they were supposed to be.
He's also got an Angel in World War I story coming up, as well as Crew, and another Assignment:Earth mini.
Byrne's actually been having a pretty good time working on licensed stuff at IDW. Presumably the people in the Angel and Trek lisencing departments are not as inept as those working at Lucasfilm in the early/mid-eighties.
Byrne's actually been having a pretty good time working on licensed stuff at IDW. Presumably the people in the Angel and Trek lisencing departments are not as inept as those working at Lucasfilm in the early/mid-eighties.
John Byrne doesnt give himself enough credit. He drew Kor, Koloth and even a brief shot of Kirk in the Romulans Hollow Crown series. I can easily tell who was who.
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