Star Trek/Green Lantern: the Spectrum War

[JTShanks]

Am I the only one who thinks that this is a good idea for a Star Trek Crossover?

I mean, seriously; Green Lantern is practically a cosmic police officer with a ring powered by will, and one that can make anything his imaginiation limits him to.

To me not only does this premise actually do well in a Trek story, I'd say it's something out of a episode of TOS Trek.

But everyone; just sit back and imagine.....

Captain Kirk with a Green Lantern Ring........

 

[Stevil2001]

No, it sounds great! I with Joe, though, that the Tiptons rarely produce inspiring work.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Am I the only one who thinks that this is a good idea for a Star Trek Crossover?

I think it's a great idea.

You hit the reason why -- the Green Lanterns patrol the galaxy dispensing justice and bringing peace to dark corners of the galaxy. And, in a lot of ways, that's what Kirk and his crew do as well. They have a lot in common.

But everyone; just sit back and imagine.....

Captain Kirk with a Green Lantern Ring........

What I really want is one of the Impassioned Kirk Speeches(TM) to the Guardians on Oa. I don't know if that's part of the Chris Pine Kirk's makeup, but it should be. At least this time. Because if there's anyone who can call out the Guardians for their rampant assholery, it's Kirk.

I liked the Siciliano book. There was also a comic-book miniseries which pitted Holmes against the Opera Ghost, so I've read at least three takes on Holmes/Phantom of the Opera at this point.

I have that mini-series as well. Guy Davis did the covers.

I thought The Canary Trainer was better than Meyer's previous Holmes novel, The West End Horror, but neither holds a candle to The Seven-Percent Solution . . ..

Totally agreed. I've never been sure what the point of The West End Horror was, unless it was just to have Holmes hobnobbing with people like Oscar Wilde and Bram Stoker and Gilbert and Sullivan. And that just got old after a while.

 

[Greg Cox]

Totally agreed. I've never been sure what the point of The West End Horror was, unless it was just to have Holmes hobnobbing with people like Oscar Wilde and Bram Stoker and Gilbert and Sullivan. And that just got old after a while.

Yeah, I loved The Seven-Percent Solution, but The West End Horror was a big disappointment back in the day, and that's coming from a Bram Stoker fan.

 

[Therin of Andor]

The main problem with crossovers is that, usually, you have both main casts fighting for frame time. 16 or so main characters rather than eight.

But otherwise, cool!

 

[Eduardo]

Speaking of crossovers, Meyer also wrote a sequel, The Canary Trainer, in which Holmes investigates the strange case of the The Phantom of the Opera . . ..

I was... disappointed by The Canary Trainer. I expected something more from it, I guess.

A few years later I read Sam Siciliano's The Angel of the Opera, which was another Holmes vs. the Opera Ghost story. And I liked that one a lot, even though it had a non-Watson narrator.

I liked the Siciliano book. There was also a comic-book miniseries which pitted Holmes against the Opera Ghost, so I've read at least three takes on Holmes/Phantom of the Opera at this point.

I thought The Canary Trainer was better than Meyer's previous Holmes novel, The West End Horror, but neither holds a candle to The Seven-Percent Solution . . ..

Just to add something, in addition to the three novels, he also wrote two other Sherlock pieces:

- a short story called "Sherlock Holmes's shortest case" for the New York Times between the first and the second novel, in which Holmes deals with a case really similar to Watergate... (it is one page long)

- "A Sherlockian Miscellany" in 2005 for the Baker Street Journal, which is not a short story but a collection of letters and papers found in a box concerning Holmes (a report card, letters and telegrams from editors, friends, publishers, teachers, etc)

 

[Enterprise1701]

http://www.thetrekcollective.com/2015/04/star-trekgreen-lantern-crossover-comic.html

Is it just me, or does that Klingon wielding the yellow (Sinestro Corps?) ring appear to be General Chang with Into Darkness-style head ridges?

 

[DimesDan]

http://www.thetrekcollective.com/2015/04/star-trekgreen-lantern-crossover-comic.html

Is it just me, or does that Klingon wielding the yellow (Sinestro Corps?) ring appear to be General Chang with Into Darkness-style head ridges?

Yes I think you'd be the only one ever to make that connection.

 

[Christopher]

http://www.thetrekcollective.com/2015/04/star-trekgreen-lantern-crossover-comic.html

Is it just me, or does that Klingon wielding the yellow (Sinestro Corps?) ring appear to be General Chang with Into Darkness-style head ridges?

Hmm... if it were just the eyepatch in common, I'd say no, since other Klingons could have that. But he sports a similar Fu Manchu mustache, though it seems longer than Chang's. And the shape of the eye and nose are similar, though not identical.

So it could be Chang, or it could just be that the cover artist decided to use an image of Chang as photo reference for a new character.

Come to think of it, a Klingon wielding a yellow ring (powered by fear) seems incongruous. I'd think the Klingons would go more for the Red Lantern (rage) part of the spectrum.

 

[Idran]

http://www.thetrekcollective.com/2015/04/star-trekgreen-lantern-crossover-comic.html

Is it just me, or does that Klingon wielding the yellow (Sinestro Corps?) ring appear to be General Chang with Into Darkness-style head ridges?

Hmm... if it were just the eyepatch in common, I'd say no, since other Klingons could have that. But he sports a similar Fu Manchu mustache, though it seems longer than Chang's. And the shape of the eye and nose are similar, though not identical.

So it could be Chang, or it could just be that the cover artist decided to use an image of Chang as photo reference for a new character.

Come to think of it, a Klingon wielding a yellow ring (powered by fear) seems incongruous. I'd think the Klingons would go more for the Red Lantern (rage) part of the spectrum.

Keep in mind that the yellow ring is kind of weird compared to the others, in that it doesn't mean holding the emotion or being anexample of it, but causing the emotion. Batman and Scarecrow have both been picked by a yellow ring, for example. From that perspective, I can see a Klingon holding one; they certainly "inspire great fear". Red ring, though, I'd definitely also see, yeah.

 

[Christopher]

Sure, but one could argue that, in principle, Klingons don't want their foes to flee from them in fear; they want their foes to stand up to them and give them a good, honorable fight. At least, that's the ideal. There are certainly Klingons who are more about the power trip and intimidation than honorable combat, granted. But it doesn't seem like the best natural match to their cultural ethos.

 

[Jedi_Master]

The Enterprise crew interacting with the Green Lanterns actually makes a lot of sense.

 

[Christopher]

The Enterprise crew interacting with the Green Lanterns actually makes a lot of sense.

Yeah, it's a more natural fit than a lot of the crossovers we've seen. The Corps is a multispecies, spacegoing peacekeeping force. Sure, they use absurdly powerful rings rather than spaceships, but there are Trek-universe precedents for similar things. GL ring constructs are basically force-field constructs, similar to holodeck creations. A 29th-century mobile holoemitter is only a bit larger than a ring. TAS force-field belts allow survival in space without a spacesuit (although the question of where the air comes from is a major issue). And we've seen super-advanced beings and technologies capable of warp travel without a ship (e.g. Laas).

The hardest thing to reconcile is the whole mystical "emotional spectrum" thing, the idea that there's some fundamental emotional basis to the physics of the universe or whatever, and that emotions have signature colors. And that willpower and death are somehow emotions.

 

[Jedi_Master]

The hardest thing to reconcile is the whole mystical "emotional spectrum" thing, the idea that there's some fundamental emotional basis to the physics of the universe or whatever, and that emotions have signature colors. And that willpower and death are somehow emotions.

I doubt that the comic will untangle those issues, but there will certainly be a chance to explore how the Ring tech works, particularly how it searches out a new Bearer. Spock would make an excellent Green Lantern, me thinks.

 

[Idran]

I doubt that the comic will untangle those issues, but there will certainly be a chance to explore how the Ring tech works, particularly how it searches out a new Bearer. Spock would make an excellent Green Lantern, me thinks.

I thought that was just a central body of some sort controlling it by remote? Didn't Mogo control that manually for the GLs up to its destruction?

 

[Allyn Gibson]

I doubt that the comic will untangle those issues, but there will certainly be a chance to explore how the Ring tech works, particularly how it searches out a new Bearer. Spock would make an excellent Green Lantern, me thinks.

Bones would be an Indigo Lantern. Chekov might be a Blue Lantern.

Scotty an Orange Lantern, maybe?

I wonder if anyone from the crew could handle a White Lantern ring.

 

[Idran]

Scotty an Orange Lantern, maybe?

Is Larfleeze not the only one anymore? I haven't followed the Lantern storyline since about when New 52 started up.

 

[Stoek]

SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!!!!!!!!! er... ah... I mean. Hmm. It seems like an interesting premise. Perhaps I shall have to look at an issue and see what I think.

 

[JD]

I'm a big fan of the GLs so this is right up my alley.

 

[Elias Vaughn]

The hardest thing to reconcile is the whole mystical "emotional spectrum" thing, the idea that there's some fundamental emotional basis to the physics of the universe or whatever, and that emotions have signature colors. And that willpower and death are somehow emotions.

I doubt that the comic will untangle those issues, but there will certainly be a chance to explore how the Ring tech works, particularly how it searches out a new Bearer. Spock would make an excellent Green Lantern, me thinks.

An emotionless Vulcan would make a natural Alpha Lantern.