What's the worst non-canon decision in the history of Trek?

[youngtrek]

I found our own @youngtrek in an issue of All-Star Squadron (or was it Infinity, Inc.? I forget), which is how I learned we live in the same town.

My favorite random find, though, was modern sf critic Lisa Yaszek, now a professor at Georgia Tech, who wrote a very enthusiastic letter to Green Lantern: Mosaic back in the 1990s as a graduate student.

Going by memory, I think it was All-Star Squadron. I know I also had letters in issues of Action Comics and Avengers. (Of course, when I want to check Grand Comics Database, it’s down at the moment.)

— David Young

 

[Stevil2001]

Going by memory, I think it was All-Star Squadron. I know I also had letters in issues of Action Comics and Avengers. (Of course, when I want to check Grand Comics Database, it’s down at the moment.)

— David Young

Aha, the very last issue, #67: https://www.comics.org/issue/42566/

 

[Moogie57]

True. And there was the little wink by Trip. While the series didn't get revived sadly, it did give Martin some additional room to work with when writing his book.

It's one of those rare cases where a bad story (IMO at least) left a number of options for it to be, um, rehabilitated (for lack of a better word).

But yeah, I'm sure there intent wasn't to give non-canon sources a way to revise things, esp. considering during the Berman reign virtually no consideration was given to novels. Probably true even today, though it sounds like the showrunners are at least aware of what the novels are up to.

 

[thribs]

The creation of Star Trek Discovery

 

[Greg Cox]

The creation of Star Trek Discovery

Oh, that's definitely canon.

Meanwhile, I don't think I ever had a letter in a Trek comic but I was a pretty prolific comic-book letter hack back in the day, most in Marvel Comics like THE DEFENDERS, DAREDEVIL, etc. And I once had two letters printed in the same issue of STAR WARS, one of them under a pseudonym!

Still remember the first time I discovered one of my letters in print. I was in the back seat of our old station wagon, driving home from Sunday dinner at my grandparents' house, when I flipped open the new issue of Marvel Preview (which I had just picked up at 7-Eleven) and . . . ohmigod, they printed my letter about Lilith, Daughter of Dracula!

I was thrilled!

 

[E-DUB]

Oh, that's definitely canon.

Meanwhile, I don't think I ever had a letter in a Trek comic but I was a pretty prolific comic-book letter hack back in the day, most in Marvel Comics like THE DEFENDERS, DAREDEVIL, etc. And I once had two letters printed in the same issue of STAR WARS, one of them under a pseudonym!

Still remember the first time I discovered one of my letters in print. I was in the back seat of our old station wagon, driving home from Sunday dinner at my grandparents' house, when I flipped open the new issue of Marvel Preview (which I had just picked up at 7-Eleven) and . . . ohmigod, they printed my letter about Lilith, Daughter of Dracula!

I was thrilled!

I had a letter printed in Newsweek, so I know your feeling.