Funny, odd, amazing things in the ST Comics
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I just got the Complete Collection DVD (all issues from 1967-2002), and find many interesting, funny, and odd things in the earliest comic books already.
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In the very first issue, Spock uses colorful language, and they destroy a whole planet with their lasers!
Must have been the Mirror Universe
It's been almost two decades, but I vaguely remember the DC Trek comics having two characters that were squirrels. Anyone else remember that?
Starfleet rodents!
That's actually what I was remembering! Good to know I wasn't just making that up.
So they told Simon Pegg and Doug Jung to make Star Trek Beyond "more like Guardians of the Galaxy" and they missed out on including these guys? Kelvin No-Pants can only dream.
I'm more disturbed at naming a starship after Cortez, as if he were a great explorer rather than a genocidal conqueror.
But then, I was the one who decided to call the NX Refit the Columbia class without thinking through the name's origins, so maybe I'm not one to talk...
But then, I was the one who decided to call the NX Refit the Columbia class without thinking through the name's origins, so maybe I'm not one to talk...
Unfortunately, we're even stuck with a canon Cortez. Best to just assume it's named after someone else.
Taken from another (older) thread, because it's more appropriate here:
How could Star Trek Picard Season 3 deny us the return of the twp most important TNG characters, the Bickleys?!? Who among us would not have wanted to see an early 25th-century version of that one-piece with cape uniform ensemble? Are they still together? Are they still bickering during shfits? Has Patricia made captain while Michael remains a junior officer and has to take her orders?
More Bickleys!
Speak for yourself, I'll buy any Treklit featuring a return of the Bickleys!
How could Star Trek Picard Season 3 deny us the return of the twp most important TNG characters, the Bickleys?!? Who among us would not have wanted to see an early 25th-century version of that one-piece with cape uniform ensemble? Are they still together? Are they still bickering during shfits? Has Patricia made captain while Michael remains a junior officer and has to take her orders?
More Bickleys!
Found this one on Facebook. Granted, according to posters on the page, the term was newly coined at that moment, so readers wouldn't know what it was.
In honour of this amazing typo
I used AI to bring Slotty to life!
I used AI to bring Slotty to life!
According to Dax's Comet, there's one of those gigantic airlock cogs in Ops.
Perhaps the least of the stupid things in that comic. Everything about the portrayal of the title object is beyond idiotic -- the "comet" is a fireball instead of an iceball, it's somehow capable of interstellar travel, its course endangers dozens of worlds, etc.
I will never understand why so many people writing about space make no effort to do even the simplest research that would tell them how space works. Even basic, elementary things that you could look up in two minutes, like what a comet is.
Hey! No one tells Terry Nation how to write!
The use of "science" (and I use that term loosely) of his Doctor Who stories is so staggeringly stupid that it becomes part of the charm. Like, no, you can't drill a hole into the Earth's and install an engine and fly it around the galaxy... and yet, why not?
Hey! No one tells Terry Nation how to write!
The use of "science" (and I use that term loosely) of his Doctor Who stories is so staggeringly stupid that it becomes part of the charm. Like, no, you can't drill a hole into the Earth's and install an engine and fly it around the galaxy... and yet, why not?
I see that more as poetic license than ignorance. At least he knew the Earth had a core. It's one thing to choose to tell a story in a fanciful way. It's another thing entirely not to know any better. I was always taught that you have to learn the rules before you can effectively judge when to break them. The problem is when people skip the learning stage and just make up nonsense, or uncritically embrace ignorant myths like the antiquated belief of a comet being a fireball.
Granted, it's not just when it comes to space that people fail to do their research. Just this morning I was reminded of the 1980s animated series based on RoboCop (yes, they did one), whose writers failed to research Detroit well enough to know it never had a subway system and uses radio/TV call signs beginning with W instead of K. But it seems to happen more often, and more egregiously, with space. The kind of errors you typically see in TV/movie depictions of space are on a par with saying Detroit is six blocks wide, 2000 years old, located on top of Mt. Everest, and the home of the Eiffel Tower.
You can really tell the artists are more used to drawing superheroes - everybody's muscles are straining their suits.