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Funny, odd, amazing things in the ST Comics

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Before the Nausicaans appeared on screen :D

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Additional chairs popped up in one picture :D

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This was in 1991!

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Jacket/undershirt colors reversed - might've even looked better

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Okona breaking the 4th wall (or is it the 3rd in a comic?) since the actor almost got to play Riker

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A unique perspective from the fish tank! That would've been interesting on screen as well :D
 
NCC-73515 said:
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Before the Nausicaans appeared on screen :D

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Additional chairs popped up in one picture :D

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This was in 1991!

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Jacket/undershirt colors reversed - might've even looked better

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Okona breaking the 4th wall (or is it the 3rd in a comic?) since the actor almost got to play Riker

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A unique perspective from the fish tank! That would've been interesting on screen as well :D
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While the attempted coup against Gorbachev was in mid to late August 1991, the Soviet Union continued to exist until December 26, 1991. When in 1991 did that TNG issue hit the stands? Then factor in the lead-in time for plotting and scripting and it could have been written well before the coup attempt.
 
NCC-73515 said:
November, apparently :D
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If the cover date was November, then it probably first went on sale in July. Cover dates on comics and magazines aren't release dates, they're more like "display until" dates, and in comics they're usually four months after the release date (or at least they were back then, which is why the reader letters in the back of one issue were usually talking about the one four issues before it). And if it was released in July, then naturally it was written months earlier.
 
NCC-73515 said:
Nice LCARS log entries
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I think I found them hard to read because the text was so small, and sometimes the contrast was low.


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Tholians before ENT showed their whole bodies
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By far the least imaginative of the various extrapolations of the Tholians' bodies. Worlds of the Federation made them levitating creatures with inverted-cone bodies. J.M. Dillard's The Lost Years: Recovery posited that the "head" was a helmet worn over an organic tentacled creature. Martin & Mangels's The Lost Era: The Sundered gave them scorpionlike crystalline bodies. Making them just blocky bipeds was boring by comparison, and kind of silly-looking.
 
Spot's Day by Diane Duane was supposed to have Spot's thoughts as text - does anyone know what they took out? They also seemed to have deleted words from the Alexander comic, I read.
 
Christopher said:
By far the least imaginative of the various extrapolations of the Tholians' bodies. Worlds of the Federation made them levitating creatures with inverted-cone bodies.
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That was my favorite. They plugged right into the their ships, perhaps. TOS made their very ships look crystal--where ENTERPRISE had them metal---I didn't like that either.
 
Looks very similar to Voyager

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Nice to see the separate parts in action

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They're all droids and we're not 'noid.

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Is that the Data Playmates figure tool? :D

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Q opens the screen like a window :D

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De Lancie even wrote a comic

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Goat Picard :D

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The parasites are back!

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In an alternate timeline, it's Ambassador Sybok who takes Spock's role

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Flashback to Time's Arrow... and extinction by diet :D

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What happened to Bateson of the Bozeman after he was freed from the loop? There's a comic about it! :D

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The deleted scene from AGT is in the comic, but the D is unmodified

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I think the concern that a core breach might cause everything was also not in the episode

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Nice aliens, one with dozens of eyes :D

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They finally use the minimalistic console in Crusher's desk :D

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Hugh is back!

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The old Cardie uniform

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And a great picture of a Runabout

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Done with DC, moving on to Malibu!

Aliens with separate lower limb parts like our bones

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Revisiting 359

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A Cardie with pointy ears :D

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Number 3 could be a xindi, 4 could be the TFF caitian, 5 is from TVH I think

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And that one is right out of MiB :D

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Imagine that in the show :D

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They like old Sci-Fi :D

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Revisiting the best S1 episode

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And a little prequel to VOY!

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NCC-73515 said:
And a little prequel to VOY!
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Malibu did a couple of things like this, like the special with Lursa and B'etor looking for trilithium before Generations. As I recall, The Maquis mini-series was intended to tie even more closely into Voyager than it did.

Malibu also announced and solicited a two-part adaptation of "Caretaker" (which would have been published as #A and #B, because 90s comics were weird) that never came out.
 
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They also have really nice lighting effects, much more pronounced than in the previous comics
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Malibu was renowned in the comics industry in the 90s for their coloring department. It's long been rumored Malibu's coloring department is why Marvel bought them, but they really bought Malibu for the market share and to keep DC from buying them.

Amusingly, I had a conversation at work yesterday about Malibu. (I do work in the comics industry, so it's a topic that could well come up, but it never had before...) Every few years, Marvel will do something to keep their CrossGen trademarks current, but they have never done anything to retain the Malibu Ultraverse trademarks.
 
Allyn Gibson said:
Amusingly, I had a conversation at work yesterday about Malibu. (I do work in the comics industry, so it's a topic that could well come up, but it never had before...)
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Just checked out your site. I didn't realize you wrote for the Previews catalog. If you hear of any job openings in the comics industry, please LMK. I've written about the comics industry for 10 years (for TwoMorrows, SeqArt, and others), but I still haven't been able to break in with a regular gig in comics.
 
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