Spoilers Star Trek: The Last Starship

[1001001]

In Treklit, there's a discussion about "The Last Starship", the series this is speaking about.

Thanks.

I don’t follow any of this stuff.

If it’s being discussed in Trek Lit then I’ll move it again. If the Mod there wants to merge it with the existing thread then they can do that.

Either way…moving again!

 

[David cgc]

As if comic books have ever been official

They're official (as in Paramount/CBS/Whoever Owns Star Trek This Week says "Give us some money and let us read them first to make sure you aren't doing anything that makes us look bad, and you're allowed to make Star Trek comics"), but not canon.

 

[tenmei]

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[tenmei]

The opening of the first issue had Sato essentially telling the Gorn “Everybody else has joined, so you should too… or else,” whether or not he or the writers quite realized that’s what they were doing.

"Or else"? Sato literally says that if the Gorn refuse to join the Federation, they will face no reprisal, other than Sato's disappointment. It's about the furthest you could get from gunboat diplomacy.

 

[FredH]

"Or else"? Sato literally says that if the Gorn refuse to join the Federation, they will face no reprisal, other than Sato's disappointment. It's about the furthest you could get from gunboat diplomacy.

I guess that’s fair — though I also find it ridiculous to think that (per the dialogue) the whole galaxy has joined the Federation. There’s just too much galaxy for that to be believable, a gazillion fictional galactic empires notwithstanding.

 

[Just a Bill]

They're official (as in Paramount/CBS/Whoever Owns Star Trek This Week says "Give us some money and let us read them first to make sure you aren't doing anything that makes us look bad, and you're allowed to make Star Trek comics"), but not canon.

Yep, that's an important distinction. Lots of things are "official" but that doesn't make them canon or even remotely worthwhile. Fortunately the powers that be have always done a bang-up job of making sure licensees don't do "anything that makes us look bad"!

, just to name a few.

 

[Avro Arrow]

Some kind of weird fanfic or something. I've been following this and well it's a thing alright..

Story was a fanfiction comic mixing various Trek periods and characters. I won't say more as to not spoil it.

You're certainly allowed to dislike the storyline, but officially licensed, professionally-produced comics are by definition not "fanfiction".

If it’s being discussed in Trek Lit then I’ll move it again. If the Mod there wants to merge it with the existing thread then they can do that.

The TrekLit mod does indeed want to merge it, so stand by for merging.

The TrekLit mod also gets grumpy about clickbaity thread titles that don't give an inkling of what the thread is about, so, you know, two birds, one stone, and such.