Planet of Hats - new TOS recap comic series

[BeatleJWOL]

Just found out about this new project:
http://www.mezzacotta.net/planetofhats/episodes/0001.html

Welcome to Planet of Hats! This is a weekly webcomic recap of the episodes of Star Trek (the original series).

Drawn by David Morgan-Mar (of Irregular Webcomic and Darths & Droids)

I lol'd. You might too.

 

[telerites]

I thought from the title it was a Krofft-Rodenberry production of "StarTrek" meets "Lidsville.". I'd love to see Spock vs. Merlot the Magician - science vs. magic, which would win. Think of the possibilities....

 

[BeatleJWOL]

Nah, "Planet of Hats" refers to this trope:

On their Wagon Train to the Stars, our intrepid heroes come across a planet with a single defining characteristic. Everybody is a robot, or a gangster, or a Proud Warrior Race Guy, or an over-the-top actor, or wearing a Nice Hat. To some degree, this is unavoidable; you only have so much screen time or page space to develop and explore a culture. This is especially true in episodic series where the heroes travel to a new planet each week and you have to both introduce a planet and tell a story all within a single episode.