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I parcel these Waypoint stories out slowly, I started with the Beverly/Tasha one. Honestly, they had me at that character pairing. Beverly & Tasha go on an away mission together, perfect premise for a 10 pager, thumbs up, loved it.
I just started reading the TNG anniversary anthology The Sky’s the Limit and its second story, “Acts of Compassion”, is a Crusher-Yar away mission! You might enjoy that.
If looked at chronologically, then the Waypoint story would be the sequel to “Acts of Compassion”.
The only thing that threw me was McCoy's comment that Kirk romances a new woman in every second port. I've always felt that this was part of the popular myth and not generally true.
I can't believe how much I liked the Worf/Ezri story in Waypoint. Of all the things I hate about Nemesis, what I hate the most is how casually it wrecks Worf's ending from DS9. I loved him finally returning to the Klingons as Federation ambassador, that felt like a perfect place to leave the character.
By contrast, just slapping him back into his old job felt depressing and awful.
When I realized what this story was setting out to do, I audibly groaned in annoyance, but then I was actually charmed by how they tied it all together. Another perfect 10 pager, sweet and moving and perfectly fills a gap and fixes a problem in the larger Trek narrative. Nice job!
They really need to make Waypoint a more regular thing. Quarterly, I am ready to settle for quarterly. Keep these coming.
I knew I'd bought this special, but couldn't find it for ages...I tracked it down this past weekend, accidentally sorted with some other comics (Horrors!), so I've finally been able to read it.
These specials are known for telling stories in unusual timeframes, but I appreciate this one for realising that "Early Season One" is an unusual timeframe for both TOS and TNG stories.
I agree with the earlier comment in this thread that Yar comes off as more belligerent than necessary--I think Bechko was trying to convey the idea of Yar rationalising why she'd be there "without" a doctor, but I feel there could've been another way to do that. The strong echoes of "Remember Me" also made me wonder why Crusher would take so long to figure things out in that episode if she'd earlier experienced a ship's crew forgetting their comrades.
Malachi Ward's ability to draw a younger Janeway who was recognisably that character whilst still having the Late-Eighties hairstyle I would expect for the story's timeframe was very impressive.
I spent most of "The First Year" distracted by thoughts of whether it was at all compatible with the novelverse's take on Worf's diplomatic career trajectory--I assume not?
I agree with the earlier comment in this thread that Yar comes off as more belligerent than necessary--I think Bechko was trying to convey the idea of Yar rationalising why she'd be there "without" a doctor, but I feel there could've been another way to do that. The strong echoes of "Remember Me" also made me wonder why Crusher would take so long to figure things out in that episode if she'd earlier experienced a ship's crew forgetting their comrades.
Wow, that's a good question. The situations are similar enough for Crusher to realise what's going on. She doesn't have that many unique adventures through all media of TNG, so it should be easier for her to connect the dots. Any way to rationalise this?
I spent most of "The First Year" distracted by thoughts of whether it was at all compatible with the novelverse's take on Worf's diplomatic career trajectory--I assume not?
That probably comes up in the "A Time to..." series, which I've not been through yet. If we can fudge the timing of the comic to appear "off screen" during the pertinent novels, we could say that Worf's resolve gained momentum gradually, until he finally took the step to return to Starfleet.
I've recently read the the Star Trek Waypoint stories from the Star Trek 50 anniversary collection I really liked it alot. I couldn't find the issue with the Data and Spot story I was interested in that story.I was hoping they'd have these stories collected in another comics story collection like the 50th anniversary stories were published together.
I'm late to the party on this one. I really enjoyed the most of the first four issues. The Voyager story is alright and the Enterprise story is way too short. There's also a glaring error with it opening in 2020 instead of 2120. It's the first panel of the comic. Not great editing.
The bizarre Geordi/Data story was great. Like an alternative universe but with no explanation. I loved it. These are my favorite types of comics. The Uhura one was good. The Klingon Mech fighters were hilarious. It was like reading a modern day Gold Key comic .
Are there any more Waypoint comics planned? (more DS9 please, and I'd like to know more about the hostile Andorians from "Only You Can Save Yourself".)
I was literally about to ask the exact same thing as I was scrolling down to your post. They seem to have turned it into an annual thing, so hopefully we'll get another one later this year.
I'd love to get a Enterprise story with more characters than just Archer.
There's another option I just learned about the other day: Hoopla. If you have a library card at a participating library, you can register with Hoopla and borrow from a large selection of digital media, though you're limited to 10 items per month. They've got a ton of IDW digital comics including most of their Trek stuff. I signed up this week and I've already used up my 10 items getting caught up on IDW Trek (and the Wonder Woman/Bionic Woman crossover DC did), including a binge of nearly all of Waypoint just this morning, although they don't have the 2019 special yet.
This is a cool series. Like any anthology, some stories are better than others, but the range and the freedom to experiment are fascinating. There were some I really enjoyed. The DS9 story "Mother's Walk" was probably the best -- it brought me to tears. "Daylily" in issue 1 was a neat story about Uhura making contact with a very imaginatively conceived alien. The Naomi Wildman "hand-drawn comic" was funny. And I loved getting to see a Phase II adventure brought to life at last.
The first story about Captain La Forge and a ship full of holographic Datas was interesting, and I don't think it's as incompatible with Nemesis as some past commenters in this thread suggested. The story just said that Data's mind was uploaded into the ship's computer, so maybe it was extracted from B-4. Okay, strictly speaking that was just Data's memories, not his consciousness/personality, but as a fudge for the sake of an interesting possible-future story, I can shrug it off. It's no weirder than any other Data-resurrection story out there.
There were some I thought were pretty good but had some issues. I liked the idea of a story giving Leslie Thompson some development and value as a character beyond getting turned into Styrofoam and crumbled, but why was a yeoman (a clerical worker/secretary/personal aide) portrayed as an engineer? "Come Away, Child," with the two TOS-era scientists doing anthropology on an alien planet, was pretty good, but it was odd that it portrayed a human scientist disguising oneself as a native as some shocking violation of the Prime Directive, given that TOS tended to portray it as standard practice.
The Ezri story with her "talking" to her past hosts was a nice idea; that's not really how Trill symbiosis usually works, but maybe it's some weird long-term aftereffect of her unsupervised zhian'tara ritual when she brought out Joran. And it was nice to finally see images of what Dax's former hosts may have looked like, even if they were fairly cartoony. I've always had a hard time not visualizing them as the DS9 characters who embodied them in "Facets," so it's good to have an alternative. But what the hell was the thing with the Andorians being the enemy and there being rumors that they ate humans? I could see this story being in something like the Typhon Pact continuity where Andoria seceded, but still, it was a founding member of the UFP and would've seceded at most a few years earlier, so no way would such rumors exist. So that was a really odd choice, to make the adversaries Andorians instead of Romulans or Tzenkethi or something.
And the Spot story was fun, but it's another one that seems to require an alternate continuity, since in the main TNG continuity
it's hard to see a way for Lore to be up and about again and able to repeat his trick of impersonating Data. Well, maybe sometime after "Descent," Data tried to reassemble Lore and it went wrong? Except at the end of "Descent" he seemed pretty certain that Lore had to be disassembled for good.
But I like the idea that Data and Barclay play mahjongg together.
Well, it treats Xon as Kirk's new science officer that he's still getting used to, so it would probably be shortly after "In Thy Image." If we assume that would've fallen at the same time as TMP, and apply modern chronological assumptions that didn't exist when Phase II was developed, then it would be 2273.
The renegade Andorians in the DS9 story was definitely strange. They weren't even renegade Andorians like those mentioned in TNG: The Survivors as the comic mentioned an Andorian Neutral Zone. At the time I read it I thought the premise was from the then forthcoming DS9 documentary but it wasn't.
Frankly, there were a couple of stories here that made me think that perhaps the writers and editors didn't know Andorians were Federation members. There was that "Histories" one where a character said something about being contacted by the Federation instead of the Klingons, Romulans, or Andorians, something like that. Granted, that turned out to be an erroneous historical account from 1000 years later, but combined with the enemy Andorians of the Ezri story, it makes me wonder. It's like they saw enough of Enterprise to go "Okay, the Andorians are adversaries" but missed the part where they were founding members of the Federation.
