Well, TWOK is the better movie... 
IDW Star Trek Ongoing...
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I'm assuming you mean Harrison who turned out to be Khan here - I had a look at IDWs website but couldn't find it, but then I don't like their site.
Where should one go to get info about upcoming ST comics and can you provide a link?
The John Harrison miniseries hasn't been announced on the IDW website, but it was mentioned at Trekmovie.com (they verified a tweet by Orci regarding it).
This is what I use. Of course at the moment, only information up to September is available. The John Harrison series (the working title at the moment) is supposed to begin in October.
Mark Martinez is the guru:
http://www.startrekcomics.info/
http://www.startrekcomics.info/idwstongoing.html
Ain Jalut
Lieutenant
I had no idea why they were sellers in the first place. Unless there is aditional background info in them why should i buy it?
There were additional scenes in each issue, IIRC, including a Shatner Kirk holographic cameo when Ambassador Spock meets Young Kirk.
But if you'd already watched the bonus footage on the DVD, I guess you'd already seen everything else.
Way back once upon a time when home video didn't exist, comic book adaptations and novelizations were really the only way you could enjoy the movie at home. But since home video now allows you to actually watch the movie itself at home, and DVDs even include bonus scenes, you can see why they wouldn't be huge sellers. Really surprised me when IDW did adaptations of TWOK and XI and it will surprise me if they do STID.
^There are more reasons to want an adaptation than just the unavailability of home video. Some people like seeing a story told in an alternative way, transposed to a format they enjoy like prose or comics. The TWOK adaptation was (belatedly) done because it was the only Trek movie not to have a comics adaptation, and some people found that unacceptable, because they wanted to see what it would look like as a comic.
Or, it was purely a marketing decision by IDW, who wanted to do a collection of the adaptations of all 6 TOS movies, but they had a big hole -- the one widely considered the best of the 6 had never been adapted to comics. So they did it as a comic just to have the material available to collect.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
I notice they haven't made any moves towards adapting Insurrection and Nemesis in order to fill out a TNG Movie omnibus (which could also include the adaptation of All Good Things.)
Personally, for me, it's that I want to be able to read the full story together. Where the movie is self-contained, I wouldn't be so bothered but here we have a prequel and a sequel both building on what was in the movie. The adaptation is desirable because I can then read the whole story from start to finish.
Just read the latest issue of ongoing at last. I certainly wasn't expecting the story to go in that direction but it's fun enough if a little vague on when Vulcans became immune to heat and smoke... The story feels a bit more comic-booky, although I'm enjoying the interludes with the romulans and klingons.
Biggest grip - still no T'Pau!
Just read the latest issue of ongoing at last. I certainly wasn't expecting the story to go in that direction but it's fun enough if a little vague on when Vulcans became immune to heat and smoke... The story feels a bit more comic-booky, although I'm enjoying the interludes with the romulans and klingons.
Biggest grip - still no T'Pau!
Did that actually happen, or was it just a pre-release rumor?
^The scene was scripted but not filmed. I remember reading the text of the scene at some point. It was a good scene, though it wasn't necessary to the film so I understand why it was left out. Although I think it came toward the end of the film and didn't involve the young Kirk.
I know it wasn't filmed; I was asking if it actually happened in the comics. I remember that TrekMovie speculated the scene would be in the comic, but that was before the final issue actually came out.
No, or it would have been in the DVD's bonus scenes. Shatner infamously said, "It don't do cameos". (Although he's done quite a few over the decades.) It was scripted, though.
Yes, it's in the comic.
Mmmm, quick riffle and I'm not seeing it. Did they use it in the Ongoing?
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The scene can be found in this early (and F-bomb laced, for those with sensitive ears/eyes) script here, for anyone interested: http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Star-Trek.html
serenitytrek1
Commander
Maybe tpau died on Vulcan....I find it kind of outlandish that tpring is even still alive. spock should have just mated with tpring and gotten over it. I don't get why he wonder of into a volcano in issue #22.
the after darkness comics is far far from impressive.
It's possible that she died but in a franchise that so far has no significant women in positions of power it seems like a criminal waste to kill her off camera when they could use her more regularly.
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