A mistake on my part.
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A mistake on my part.
Don’t mind me, I don’t think I expressed myself at all well and, in all honesty I’ve been having chemotherapy pumped into me for 48 hours and my brain is wired and cranky on the steroids. Im probably being overly critical about everything, although I’m still kind of done with the comics for now, at least until they release reduced price TPBs.
I hope everything will end up well for you. Fuck Cancer.
Thank you, BillJ. My prognosis is rather terrible, but I fight on like a Klingon!
"Never give up, never surrender!"
Oh wait that's not actually Trek...
Oh wait that's not actually Trek...
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/star-trek-defiant-breaks-out-the-proto-warp-spoilers/
Article on this week's Defiant, yet it spends the vast majority of the article talking about the core Trek title
Article on this week's Defiant, yet it spends the vast majority of the article talking about the core Trek title
Oh, I must have missed that one.
Given this is Magnificent Seven, who do we think will join Worf, Spock, BElanna, Ro and Lore? We've got TNG, DS9, Voyager and TOS covered, so the other two may need to have a connection to one of the others? They've said they considered using Mariner in Trek, so wonder if she might fit here instead? And Tom Riker.
Given this is Magnificent Seven, who do we think will join Worf, Spock, BElanna, Ro and Lore? We've got TNG, DS9, Voyager and TOS covered, so the other two may need to have a connection to one of the others? They've said they considered using Mariner in Trek, so wonder if she might fit here instead? And Tom Riker.
Shaxs!
I was enjoying issue #7 quite a bit. I like the new addition to the team, but I didn't care for the ending.
It didn't make sense that a Jem'Hadar soldier would be with the Cardassians. I was surprised that it was a new character seemingly in charge though and not Garak. Makes me wonder if Garak will come in to rescue Sisko. Outside of the ending that didn't do it for me, I loved the Sisko-Kasidy reunion, and Sisko meeting Sarah for the first time. I also liked seeing more of the crew letting their hair down and interacting.
Just a heads up, the Star Trek Free Comic Book Day issue is already available online, contains a prelude story to Day of Blood:
https://www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-Prelude-Blood-2022-ebook/dp/B0C2FZ6CJL/ref=sr_1_18?crid=1YHN2YF1SAQG2&keywords=star+trek&qid=1683389547&s=comics-manga&sprefix=star+tr,comics-manga,296&sr=1-18
https://www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-Prelude-Blood-2022-ebook/dp/B0C2FZ6CJL/ref=sr_1_18?crid=1YHN2YF1SAQG2&keywords=star+trek&qid=1683389547&s=comics-manga&sprefix=star+tr,comics-manga,296&sr=1-18
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Tom Paris is completely useless in this series. Just another white man.
What does his skin color have to do with it?
I suspect it's about the common tendency in media to feel obligated to include a white male main character to appease audiences/executives who expect white male main characters, as a result of which that character is often the least interesting one in the story. Too often it's assumed that just being white and male is enough to make a character deserve our attention, so little effort is put into making the character interesting enough to earn our attention. Or else it's that society still defaults to the assumption that the "average" person is white and male, and such characters are often kept fairly bland and generic in the belief that it will make it easier for the "average" viewer to identify with them.
I recall Keith R.A. DeCandido expressing a similar opinion about Tom Paris in his Voyager rewatch -- that he was an uninteresting, unappealing character that the show simply assumed was deserving of our attention because he was the only young white male human in the core cast.
So the fact that of all the characters on the show, his arc throughout those 7 seasons showed the most personal growth, and that he went from an uncaring parolee to one of the most responsible members of the crew... means nothing, just due to his skin color?
To be fair, Paris IS completely useless in this comic series, and how good or poor his character or his arc in the show was is irrelevant to that fact.
So is this a phenomenon you’re attributing to Colin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing, or perhaps even IDW in general? Because if not that’s not a good explanation for the original comment.
Indeed, unless the comment was an accusation that IDW or these writers only included Paris in the comic because he’s white, and for whatever reason decided they didn’t need to bother making his character compelling or giving him anything useful to do, because him being white was all that was needed, then I see no reason to mention his race at all. Other than to make a completely unrelated negative comment against a specific race, which I imagine is against board rules. And I can’t imagine any serious person accusing those two writers or IDW in general of participating in the phenomenon Christopher describes.
So is this a phenomenon you’re attributing to Colin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing, or perhaps even IDW in general? Because if not that’s not a good explanation for the original comment.
Indeed, unless the comment was an accusation that IDW or these writers only included Paris in the comic because he’s white, and for whatever reason decided they didn’t need to bother making his character compelling or giving him anything useful to do, because him being white was all that was needed, then I see no reason to mention his race at all. Other than to make a completely unrelated negative comment against a specific race, which I imagine is against board rules. And I can’t imagine any serious person accusing those two writers or IDW in general of participating in the phenomenon Christopher describes.
No, as I haven't read the comics at all. I'm just saying that's my impression of what DS9forever might have intended by the comment. Please try to keep track of who's saying what. I'm just a bystander trying to offer some context.
I don't think anybody's trying to "accuse" anyone of anything. I just think that maybe DS9forever was referencing the broader pattern of bland white male characters. But I'm just speculating and i should leave it to DS9forever to respond if they so choose.
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To be fair, Paris is the VOY representative amongst the cast, so hardly in a role that no other character could quite have slotted into (and if we ignore that Lily and TLir are our ENT and likely DISCO nods, and that the drive system ties us into PROD)
It also means that all of the returning cast other than Scotty have or have had children, oddly.
It also means that all of the returning cast other than Scotty have or have had children, oddly.
