Spoilers Picard: COUNTDOWN! - Comic is available, spoiler discussion within
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Countdown... to Countdown... and how to reconcile Countdown with Countdown!
This might be the first Trek comic I buy since the original Countdown! I'm super pumped about ST:P.
So, the comic prequel starts in November and the tie-in novel is out in February. I guess everything's in alignment for Picard to have a winter premiere?
Where did you hear that? The only thing I've heard is that it follows a mission that will have some kind of a big impact on Picard.
Yeah, it does have Countdown as it's title, but it seems to me that's more of a generic "this is a prequel" title, rather than an indication it actually follows up on the Kelvinverse prequel.
I hear the author of the novelization hangs out here. Maybe you can ask him.Wasn't COUNTDOWN the one where Darkseid killed all the New Gods and Jimmy Olsen had sex with an alien insect-woman?
Or was that a different COUNTDOWN comic?
I wonder if the Starfleet characters in this new Star Trek: Picard - Countdown comic will wear the uniforms from the Lower Decks cartoon, since that seems to be set just after Nemesis too.
In Countdown' s 2387 , Data is alive (in B-4's body) and is Captain of the USS Enterprise. In Picard, B-4 is in parts in a drawer somewhere and Picard...
Visits Nemesis-era Data on the holodeck. Whether it's Data's actual consciousness or just a holographic recreation of Data is unknown as of yet.
But Picard takes place in 2399, so there's plenty of time for B4/Data to be drawered.
Given that one of the plotlines is about Picard's guilt at the death of Data - it seems pretty unlikely to inject "and then he was alive again for a bit and then not" - narratively it adds a confusing unnecessary beat.
Doesn't quite fit with "almost 20 years ago, Commander Data sacrificed his life for me."
Imagine the next line, "But he was fine until a couple of weeks ago."
That's what I suspected.
I doubt it. The original comic isn't consistent with Picard.
Isn’t Picard also the Ambassador to Vulcan(?) in Countdown? Based on the trailer and the backstory snippets released in the Picard museum there’s no sign that happened pre-PIC either. Left the Enterprise in 2381 and retired in 2385 IIRC.
Even if you squint I don’t think the original Countdown is going to fit in to any of this at all...
Even if you squint I don’t think the original Countdown is going to fit in to any of this at all...
