IDW Star Trek Ongoing...

[Idran]

TNG created new villans/aliens.The Ferengi (for a time), Q and The Borg, they did not rehash dangers from the past e.g The Tholian Web, The Apollo God,

For half the run of DS9, the main antagonists were a rehash of a TNG alien.

What's important isn't "have we seen it before", it's "is the way we are seeing it now good". "Original" and "good" aren't even correlated with one another, they're two completely unrelated concepts and neither so much as implies the other. I mean, yes the TNG introduced Ferengi. But the Ferengi were horrible, annoying, gamboling goblins in TNG with nothing interesting to them whatsoever. Being original didn't make them any good; they weren't any good until DS9 took the race (instead of coming up with a new one) and did interesting things with them.

 

[Avro Arrow]

Might it be this Endeavour? http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/USS_Endeavour_(alternate_reality)

Probably not, since I thought all the ships sent to Vulcan (except Enterprise) got destroyed.

Of course, we didn't see it, and it's just a name, so there's probably no way to tell anyway.

 

[The Wormhole]

For half the run of DS9, the main antagonists were a rehash of a TNG alien.

As were the main antagonists in the latter half of Voyager.

 

[JD]

Do any of the comics between Into Darkness and Beyond explain what happened to Carol Marcus? The end of STID makes it feel like she's going to be sticking around as a full time crew member, but then she's gone by the time we get to Beyond and there's no mention of her anywhere.

 

[Christopher]

Do any of the comics between Into Darkness and Beyond explain what happened to Carol Marcus? The end of STID makes it feel like she's going to be sticking around as a full time crew member, but then she's gone by the time we get to Beyond and there's no mention of her anywhere.

Well, there's a time jump of nearly 3 years between movies. Not that they couldn't do a story about her departure if they thought there was something worth telling there, but a crew member moving on sometime in the course of 3 years is a lot less mysterious than it would be if the films were set closer together.

 

[JD]

I understand there was plenty of time for her to have left, I was just curious what happened to her.

 

[Christopher]

I understand there was plenty of time for her to have left, I was just curious what happened to her.

Understandable, but you were talking about it as if it were some kind of a mystery. I just don't see it as a big deal; I was used to seeing crewmembers appearing and disappearing all the time on TOS.

 

[Enterprise1701]

Do any of the comics between Into Darkness and Beyond explain what happened to Carol Marcus? The end of STID makes it feel like she's going to be sticking around as a full time crew member, but then she's gone by the time we get to Beyond and there's no mention of her anywhere.

Nope, she appears in a few post-STID issues and disappears without explanation.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

I was used to seeing crewmembers appearing and disappearing all the time on TOS.

They didn't have a "where did Sulu go/welcome back Sulu party" episode or throwaway line when he took a break to film something else, and they didn't have a "let's introduce Chekov to everyone" episode when he became a regular. Shows didn't think like that as often. These days, new team members for cop shows get a welcome episode, or a series of episodes where so and so is introduced to the team some other way and gradually works toward becoming a team member.

 

[Christopher]

They didn't have a "where did Sulu go/welcome back Sulu party" episode or throwaway line when he took a break to film something else, and they didn't have a "let's introduce Chekov to everyone" episode when he became a regular. Shows didn't think like that as often. These days, new team members for cop shows get a welcome episode, or a series of episodes where so and so is introduced to the team some other way and gradually works toward becoming a team member.

You could also see this with TOS's sister show Mission: Impossible. For six seasons, characters were swapped out without explanation, just stepping into their predecessors' roles as if they'd been there all along, and pretty much written identically as well, modified only by the actors' performances. But by the time season 7 came along in the early '70s, TV was starting to develop a bit more interest in continuity, so when Barbara Anderson temporarily replaced Lynda Day George during the latter's maternity leave, they gave Anderson's Mimi a debut episode showing how she joined the team, and put in references in several episodes to George's Casey being on temporary assignment in Europe.

 

[F. King Daniel]

IIRC, Simon Pegg said that earlier versions of the Beyond script mentioned Carol (and a few other Into Darkness tidbits) but the lines were cut from later drafts.

 

[Nyotarules]

My theory Marcus and Kirk had an affair and things did not work out (again) hence Kirk's depressed state at the start of Beyond

 

[Stevil2001]

I laughed out loud when I realized Christopher was explaining that not every little difference in Star Trek needed an explanation.

 

[DimesDan]

I laughed out loud when I realized Christopher was explaining that not every little difference in Star Trek needed an explanation.

Oh that is ironic.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

I laughed out loud when I realized Christopher was explaining that not every little difference in Star Trek needed an explanation.

After a time, you may find that needing is not so similar a thing after all as wanting.

 

[Interstella5555]

Does anyone know what is happening with the IDW comics now that Boldly Go has ended? I've caught some of the Mirror Universe titles but is anything going to happen in the Prime or Kelvin universes?

cheers
Cammy

 

[Leto_II]

Does anyone know what is happening with the IDW comics now that Boldly Go has ended? I've caught some of the Mirror Universe titles but is anything going to happen in the Prime or Kelvin universes?

Some comics are still slated for publication (such as the wrap-up of John Byrne's New Visions series, TNG: Terra Incognita, and the last couple Discovery: Succession issues), but they announced that they were putting the brakes on further, post-Beyond Kelvinverse comics for the time being, possibly due to wanting to have a slightly better idea of what the next movie's going to do, storywise. And as far as new Prime Universe comics, no word yet, though that will likely change down the road, here.