Spoilers Star Trek: Waypoint Discussion Thread

[Defcon]

Modern day Gold Key Trek?

“The Menace of the Mechanitrons!” is our contribution to Star Trek: Waypoint, a six-issue mini-series in which IDW is showcasing all-new stories penned and drawn by various folks with some sort of Star Trek connection past or present, as part of celebrating Star Trek‘s 50th anniversary. Sarah invited us to participate several months ago, and immediately took a liking to our pitch to write an all-new story that pays homage to those gloriously off-beat Gold Key Star Trek comics of the late 1960s and 1970s. Such tales were my first exposure to comics featuring Captain Kirk and the gang, and for all the many, many ways they are so totally inconsistent with the show from which they take their cue, they possess a charm that is all but impossible to deny.

Making things even better was Sarah’s enlisting of artist and Star Trek comics veteran Gordon Purcell, who as I write this is studiously working to complete his work drawing the pretty pictures which will breathe life into our pithy words. If the cover he came up with is any indication, this whole thing is going to be epic. Check it out:

Look! It’s our names! On the cover! I need a cigarette! I don’t even smoke!

:: ahem ::

The art provided by Gordon is for the issue’s “subscription variant” cover. The “regular” version for stores will feature art by David Malan.

https://daytonward.wordpress.com/2016/08/22/cover-for-star-trek-waypoint-2/

When you have to haul out an original issue of the old Gold Key Star Trek comic so that you can compare the color of the word balloons to make sure they're being done the right way on a comic being drawn and lettered 45 years later.

I DO THIS FOR YOU PEOPLE.

https://www.facebook.com/dayton.ward/posts/10210594172871580

 

[F. King Daniel]

Fantastic!

 

[Tosk]

Oh man, I forgot it was only six issues. Bummer.

 

[Dayton Ward]

Exactly. @Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore`s entry will pretty much be a modern day Gold Key comic if I'm understanding Dayton's social media comments correctly.

And it will be canon.

In my head, I mean.

 

[Christopher]

Oh man, I forgot it was only six issues. Bummer.

I would expect them to do more if it sells well enough.

 

[Danlav05]

This weird alt-post-Nemesis is pretty bad, but I'll be even less interested if they come up with their own post-DS9 setup.

On the one hand it;'s fun to get different interpretations and ideas but it's a pity Pocket/IDW etc has not worked together to create a unfied post-Nemesis continuity, we've had the novelverse, Online, Hive, Countdown, Waypoint etc

 

[Christopher]

On the one hand it;'s fun to get different interpretations and ideas but it's a pity Pocket/IDW etc has not worked together to create a unfied post-Nemesis continuity, we've had the novelverse, Online, Hive, Countdown, Waypoint etc

I don't think it's a pity. I've always seen the freedom of Trek tie-ins to explore multiple alternative paths as a feature rather than a bug. It's interesting to see how different people take the same ideas in totally different directions. IDIC, y'know.

 

[tenmei]

I'd quite enjoy further adventures in the Puzzle-verse.

 

[Dayton Ward]

Only this one is canon. All others are apocryphal.

 

[Christopher]

^What? Why did they call that "Battle on the Planet Klingon" if there were no Klingons in the picture? Or did somebody assume that "Klingons" were tentacle monsters that would cling on to people? (Wow, that would've made Worf's romantic arcs a lot kinkier...)

 

[ryan123450]

On the one hand it;'s fun to get different interpretations and ideas but it's a pity Pocket/IDW etc has not worked together to create a unfied post-Nemesis continuity, we've had the novelverse, Online, Hive, Countdown, Waypoint etc

Out of Hive, Countdown, and Waypoint, I've only glanced at Countdown. Could they fit together in one continuity?

 

[JD]

I don't think there is any way they could be reconciled.

 

[ryan123450]

Ok, like I said I know very little about them all but I wondered.

 

[Danlav05]

When Hive was announced I thought it would be like TNG: The Movie #5 but I was left underwhelmed.

The Destiny novel seems to do that job. Maybe Hive and Countdown could be the same universe at a stretch?

 

[Christopher]

Maybe Hive and Countdown could be the same universe at a stretch?

I might be missing something, but I don't see any reason why they couldn't be compatible. After all,

Spoiler: Hive ending

Hive ends with the suggestion that Picard has found a way to resurrect Data, and Data is "alive" again in Countdown.

 

[XManRCJ]

I just want a IDW TNG (Ent-E) ongoing. I was never much a TOS fan, so I'm not buying Kelvin-verse. But to read some stuff about Picard and Co post-FC to pre-Nemesis would be cool.

 

[ryan123450]

Exactly the idea I've always wanted. Theres so much time left untold during the TNG movie era and so much potential for an awesome ongoing.

 

[ToddKent]

Doubtful. IDW doesn't have the license to DS9, Voyager, or Enterprise.

IDW published a Deep Space Nine comic a few years ago. I assume they still have the license.

 

[The Wormhole]

IDW published a Deep Space Nine comic a few years ago. I assume they still have the license.

No, the story as has been told before was that due to poor sales of the Fool's Gold series IDW let their DS9 license expire and never sought to renew it. But then they did do a very DS9 involved story arc in the Kelvin Universe Ongoing series despite supposedly not having the license to DS9.

 

[jaime]

No, the story as has been told before was that due to poor sales of the Fool's Gold series IDW let their DS9 license expire and never sought to renew it. But then they did do a very DS9 involved story arc in the Kelvin Universe Ongoing series despite supposedly not having the license to DS9.

Fools gold had its sup and its downs. It was very retro.
I thought CBS mainly licenses prime Trek as a whole? Most of the licenses seem that way.