Star Trek: Early Voyages

[JD]

That is a pretty good explanation for April, and similar thoughts had crossed my mind for M'Benga had crossed my mind. At first I had thought there was a bigger gape between between SNW and TOS, and it was his son, but now that I know it's only 10 years, I'm not sure if that would work.

 

[Procutus]

As far as M'Benga goes, if there really are two of them, then my theory would be that Joseph is the older brother of the M'Benga who worked under McCoy in TOS. While I very much like Joseph, the two characters seem very different, so I would have no problem accepting the fact there are two brothers, who both became doctors.

After all, we have the Kirk Bros who both went into Starfleet. It will be interesting to see if this is brought up at all in the final three seasons.

 

[Kor]

I wasn't a big fan of the use of the prefix code against the TOS-era Miranda type ship, in the ancient Vulcanian colony story. I mean, it was cool in TWOK, but to me that's the kind of thing that can only be pulled off one time in the entire franchise.

Kor

 

[Procutus]

^

Yeah, you'd think the Starflleet Corp of Computer Geeks would come up with system that was more hack-proof.

 

[David cgc]

As far as M'Benga goes, if there really are two of them, then my theory would be that Joseph is the older brother of the M'Benga who worked under McCoy in TOS. While I very much like Joseph, the two characters seem very different, so I would have no problem accepting the fact there are two brothers, who both became doctors.

After all, we have the Kirk Bros who both went into Starfleet. It will be interesting to see if this is brought up at all in the final three seasons.

Two M'Benga's seems a lot cleaner than trying to figure out some explanation for how he gets demoted and figuring out an artful way to incorporate it into the storyline that's, potentially, years before it would actually be pertinent.

"This McCoy kid is a real hot-shot! In exactly seven years, I bet I'll be the one working for him! Now, to apply my skin cream and drink ginger tea to help me return to a youthful appearance and tenor." *Turns towards camera meaningfully as TOS theme plays*

No, much simpler to have a guest spot, or even just dialog about a younger brother, cousin, or even a previously-unmentioned older son and let us put the pieces together ourselves. Even though, with M'Benga mentioning his experience on Vulcan on SNW, it gets a little "Caprica" where you can tell they didn't realize that there was a timeline problem worth solving until they were halfway through.

 

[JD]

As far as M'Benga goes, if there really are two of them, then my theory would be that Joseph is the older brother of the M'Benga who worked under McCoy in TOS. While I very much like Joseph, the two characters seem very different, so I would have no problem accepting the fact there are two brothers, who both became doctors.

That works for me.

Two M'Benga's seems a lot cleaner than trying to figure out some explanation for how he gets demoted and figuring out an artful way to incorporate it into the storyline that's, potentially, years before it would actually be pertinent.

"This McCoy kid is a real hot-shot! In exactly seven years, I bet I'll be the one working for him! Now, to apply my skin cream and drink ginger tea to help me return to a youthful appearance and tenor." *Turns towards camera meaningfully as TOS theme plays*

Yeah, I would love to know if they actually put any real thought into how we go from SNW M'Benga to TOS M'Benga, because it doesn't seem to really fit. Even April is a better fit, if you're willing to overlook the race change.

 

[Procutus]

And there's also the matter of Dr. Piper being in-between M'Benga and McCoy. I'm not expecting that to be addressed in the time remaining, but if they are serious about lining up with TOS, there should at least be a mention of it.

 

[Stevil2001]

"This McCoy kid is a real hot-shot! In exactly seven years, I bet I'll be the one working for him! Now, to apply my skin cream and drink ginger tea to help me return to a youthful appearance and tenor." *Turns towards camera meaningfully as TOS theme plays*

LOL, this is how Roy Thomas would do it.

 

[David cgc]

Spoiler: SNW 3x02 "Wedding Bell Blues"

Well, it looks like they might be going with the two Doctor M'Begas answer after all, judging by the conspicuously unnamed fresh-faced Ensign Nurse who seems very familiar with Dr. M'Benga and has just been assigned to the Enterprise. Son? Nephew? Time-displaced duplicate from a parallel universe? And if he is TOS-M'Benga, will he be named Jabilo? Only time, or people who are annoyingly loose with spoilers, will tell (yes, it seems really obvious what they're doing, but I'd like to see how they do it for myself if they've decided to make it a twist).

 

[JD]

Glad to know I'm not the only one who thought of that.

 

[tenmei]

Spoiler: Episode 3x02

Ive seen the character called Ensign Dana Gamble in a few reviews.

 

[JD]

Yeah, I just saw that for the first time today.

 

[David cgc]

Spoiler: Episode 3x02

Ive seen the character called Ensign Dana Gamble in a few reviews.

Spoiler: New SNW Character

Maybe it's just wishful thinking, but they wouldn't be above dubbing a fake name into a advance release of an episode to attempt to hide a twist or reveal. There was the critics screening of clips from STID where they had an alternate version of the space-jump scene where Khan's name showed as "Harrison" on a computer display, and the whole rigamarole with Javid Iqbal, the fictitious actor who supposedly played Voq in DSC.

 

[rafterman1701]

Early Voyages was the best series from that Paramount run.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Early Voyages was the best series from that Paramount run.

Agreed.

I'd probably say Starfleet Academy was second-best, but I didn't enjoy it at the time because my expectations were for a different kind of book. I was expecting a Nog book, but he's a basically a side character in what is, essentially, a 90s X-Men spin-off comic, the 24th-century equivalent of Generation X, basically. On those terms, upon reread it works rather well, and I like the characters, especially T'Priell and Edam Astrun. Ironically, when Pava turned up in Titan, I was a touch disappointed because there were better SFA characters to choose from.

Marvel's DS9 and Voyager comics were just there, and the thought process on Star Trek Unlimited -- a bimonthly anthology with both TOS and NextGen -- eluded me completely.

 

[KRAD]

The thought process on STU was that TOS and TNG weren't current shows, so there'd be less interest in them, so they were relegated to an anthology series while the currently running shows -- DS9 and Voyager -- would get monthly titles. This backfired rather spectacularly, as no one quite realized then how much more popular TOS and TNG were than any of the spinoffs.........