Sorry to bring this thread back to life, but I just read a Trek comic and thought this might the the best place to air my thoughts. I started reading DC Comics TNG miniseries that launched their TNG line. Issue two is most likely the worst story I've ever read. Not just worst Star Trek story, but the worst story of any kind.
The Enterprise crew, on the night before Christmas, celebrate. The clothes they change into made me temporarily think they were dreaming or had been transported to an alternate reality. Picard's party clothes looked bizarre, and Yar's looked like something out of a bondage sex club. An alien ship encounters the Enterprise, and the crew is invited aboard for the festivities. The bizarre alien Christmas parties which we glimpse are populated by entire cultures of specific aliens who work on the Enterprise.
Also aboard the ship is the aliens apparent arch nemesis, a non corporal entity whom they have been trying to destroy. It is then revealed that the non corporal entity takes the form of Santa Claus (yes seriously) and when the aliens remove their masks they look just like the Grinch (yes seriously again). Picard and crew help the entity spread it's love into the hearts of the aliens, and all is right with the world.
And all of this is played out as seriously as could be, just as if this were a normal issue of the comic. It makes the Star Wars Holiday Special look like a great work of art.
Wow. Just wow.
