IDW winding down Trek?

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What is this fascination with zombies, anyway?

Perhaps what is most frightening about zombies is that unlike most creatures in horror films, the zombie is us.

From Why are we so fascinated with zombies? by Peter Dendle, Ph.D., associate professor of English at Penn State Mont Alto and author of The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia.

He doesn't discuss the proliferation of zombies in comics.

 

[kkozoriz1]

I have no fascination with zombies at all. Vampires either for that matter.

 

[DimesDan]

I have no fascination with zombies at all. Vampires either for that matter.

Nor I, I like Shaun of the Dead and Buffy the Vampire Slayer when it comes to Zombies and Vampires respectively, but that's about it, I do think that many many people, probably more so than what like Star Trek like those two genres which is why popular culture seems to have such a fascination with them to such an extent.

 

[kkozoriz1]

But how many like both genres? Would something like this attract people who like both or turn off those who only like one and not the other?

 

[DimesDan]

But how many like both genres? Would something like this attract people who like both or turn off those who only like one and not the other?

I don't know, nor do I particularly care one way or the other.

 

[kkozoriz1]

But how many like both genres? Would something like this attract people who like both or turn off those who only like one and not the other?

I don't know, nor do I particularly care one way or the other.

Well, thank you for that.

 

[DimesDan]

But how many like both genres? Would something like this attract people who like both or turn off those who only like one and not the other?

I don't know, nor do I particularly care one way or the other.

Well, thank you for that.

That's ok, if you really do want those two questions answered, you could look it up, ask people who like both Trek and Zombies and then you may find your answers. Asking someone who doesn't understand the fascination with the Zombie genre wasn't exactly going to yield the answers you were looking for.

 

[kkozoriz1]

I apologize. I didn't realize that this was your private thread and all questions must be directed to you.

 

[DimesDan]

I apologize. I didn't realize that this was your private thread and all questions must be directed to you.

You asked straight after I replied, which in turn, I was replying to you, I inferred that you were directing it at me, was I wrong in thinking that then? Of course, you'll probably say no to that though.

 

[kkozoriz1]

Nope, just tossing thoughts out in a general way, although responses to previous posts are included they aren't exclusive to the poster.

 

[Steve Roby]

I think the fundamental difference between zombie and vampire fiction is that the former is almost always about the human characters, while the latter is often focused on the nonhuman characters. One is about survival in the face of a force of (un)nature that can't be reaoned with and the other seems to be fantasizing about something more glamourous and powerful than us.

The obvious zombie analogue in the Trekverse is the Borg. Not sure there's much of a vampire analogue....

 

[BillJ]

I hope they do a Starfleet Academy omnibus reprinting the Marvel series from the mid-90's. Have the comics DVD, but it just isn't the same as having a book in your hand.

 

[F. King Daniel]

I think the fundamental difference between zombie and vampire fiction is that the former is almost always about the human characters, while the latter is often focused on the nonhuman characters. One is about survival in the face of a force of (un)nature that can't be reaoned with and the other seems to be fantasizing about something more glamourous and powerful than us.

The obvious zombie analogue in the Trekverse is the Borg. Not sure there's much of a vampire analogue....

Well, there's McCoy's not-quite-Nancy Salt Vampire, Nemesis' Remans and in Treklit there's an actual Vampire in Death's Angel, and virus-vampires in Bloodthirst.

 

[ryan123450]

An actual vampire? How's that?

And virus-vampires too?

 

[Mike Farley]

And the creature from DAY OF THE DOVE which was a kind of emotional vampire.

Also the vampiric cloud thing from "Obsession."

 

[Christopher]

An actual vampire? How's that?

Or rather, an alien who looked and acted exactly like a stereotypical vampire, one of a bunch of unimaginatively conceived aliens in Death's Angel that were just sentient versions of Earth animals or legendary creatures.

 

[Captain Robert April]

I did rather like the cover art for "Death Angel". Nice symbolism there. Can't say much for the story...

 

[F. King Daniel]

An actual vampire? How's that?

Or rather, an alien who looked and acted exactly like a stereotypical vampire, one of a bunch of unimaginatively conceived aliens in Death's Angel that were just sentient versions of Earth animals or legendary creatures.

What you see as unimaginative I see as endeeringly cheesy. TAS had the Kzinti, the Nasat, Satan himself, wizards and the rest of the "Megas Tu" aliens, ENT had giant ants, lizardmen and zombies and Death's Angel had a beetle, a vampire, a shape-shifting pyramid, a cat and a crocodile man - many of which were implied to have visited Earth and influenced legends in centuries past (as did the Furies from Invasion!, the "Megas Tu" aliens, Quark and family...)

 

[Therin of Andor]

Death's Angel had a ... crocodile man...

Si-s-s-s (click) on Therin of Andor's Flickr.

 

[Captain Robert April]

Oh, god, I'm having a flashback from that story now.

DAMN YOU, IAN!!