I always see it as THE LA STARSHIP and expect it to be the gayest Trek ever.
Ahead of tomorrow's release -
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Comic Book Preview – Star Trek: The Last Starship #6
IDW Publishing releases Star Trek: The Last Starship #6 next week, and you can get yourself a sneak peek at the issue below with the official preview… In the shadow of the Burn, the Federation w…
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Interesting issue -
So the Emerald Chain is here to stay and First Officer Carter has exited stage left. There's a mild hint that Carter Snr might have sold the Omega out to the Chain before his death, but it's nebulous as to if this is the backdoor into the system or being behind the exile of non-Earth citizens.
Kirk seems to be now officially XO though.
Kirk seems to be now officially XO though.
Issue 6 is now available on hoopla.
Reading through the latest arc and I noticed a few things. I see that there was a Dax representing Trill at Babel. This issue would have dropped a few weeks after we saw Dax on Starfleet Academy. Also, having Ferenginar as a founding member of the Emerald Chain is new information but it makes sense, doesn't it? Now that Academy season 1 is in the books, I hope the next arc brings in more characters and concepts from the show.
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Set aboard the USS West Hollywood and they have foam parties in the conference room.
This is going to sound like a newbie question from a longtime Trek fan, but I've never really understood the concept of a Borg Queen. The Borg were introduced as collective mind with no personality. Then First Contact introduced a Queen who says "I am the Borg". She is killed and we get yet another Queen in Voyager. So the concept has evolved to treating the Borg like a Honey Bee nest? How many Queens are there at one time?
General questions about how the Borg work would probably be best directed to one of the show or movie forums, or GTD. However, since this is the Lit forum, I will mention that I thought one of the novels (Before Dishonor, maybe?) introduced the concept of “royal jelly”, to create a queen, making the “beehive” comparison even more explicit. However… I can’t find any reference to this on Memory Beta, so I’m not sure if I’m mixing this up with some other franchise or something.
OK, I just checked my ebook copy of Before Dishonor, and search didn’t find any instances of the word “jelly”. Not sure now if this exists somewhere else, or if I’m just making it up.
If I am to be honest, you kind of have to not think about it too hard because the movie writers didn't think about how they were breaking the Borg's formidability and scariness as antagonists in favor of having a human face for sex appeal, and the TV writers never came up with any explanation, just as they also continued the framework that the Borg knew about Earth via time travel even before "Q Who" and yet still lost their capital ship at the hands of some puny unassimilated aliens in Star Trek: First Contact.
I guess we should count ourselves very lucky Star Trek: Enterprise never brought to fruition the season 5 shark-jumping concept of making the Borg Queen herself originate on 22nd century Earth.
You're thinking of Greater than the Sum.
Yes, definitely. Star Trek needs to be jumping fewer sharks.
It seems often that screen writers get to be lazy/play fast and loose with continuity and story beats and let the novel authors and comic writers to create "retcons" and explanations.
glances at J.J. Abrams and his visible-from-other-planets planetary explosions
Yup! Nature of entertainment multimedia, for better or for worse.
Considering that we actually got a shout-out to Dax in the comic before the second arc even ended, I'm very hopeful for more Academy shout-outs and cameos.
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