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
What's the worst non-canon decision in the history of Trek?
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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/
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.
Bringing Captain Sisko back from the wormhole. It just doesn't work and no one has yet made it satisfying.
seriously him returning for his daughters birth doesn't bring a tear to the eye?
My favorite part of that is how Avery Brooks had a problem with Sisko just abandoning his family and that's why they had Sisko say he'd be back or whatever, but then when Sisko came back he almost immediately dicked off to the Gamma Quadrant.
I've had letters published in the NMRA Magazine a number of times (probably at least once under its previous title of Scale Rails), and at least one in the Automobile Club of Southern California's Westways.
Over a decade ago, I got published in one of the IBM Midrange trade magazines (I don't recall which one, and I think there are, or at least were, at least two). They'd sent out a cattle-call for letters describing variations (serious or humorous) on the "data warehouse" concept, and I came up with
Presumably it would be implemented as an array of write-only memory.
I was pretty happy with how they handled his return and what they did with him up to the Taurus Pact books. It was after that that I wasn't thrilled with how he was handled.
I didn't mind the start of it, with Sisko returning for the birth of his daughter. Considering Avery Brooks' own disapproval of the idea of Sisko leaving his pregnant wife and unborn child, it made sense for him to come back for it.
But his portrayal in the DRG post-Destiny DS9 novels never sat right. I see some seeds being planted in Fearful Symmetry/The Soul Key of Sisko being some kind of tool of the Prophets to set certain things in motion, presumably in the expectation of tackling it further in the then-still nascent Ascendants storyline, but then the time jump to after Star Trek Destiny happened and... Sisko did NOT respond like Sisko anymore as far as I could tell. The division of him from his family, from Kasidy in particular, ESPECIALLY, again, after Avery Brooks had expressed his concerns about the optics of a black man abandoning his family... It just did not play as Sisko.
Basically, I think that Sisko, post-Prophets, would not fall back into the standard mold of just another Starfleet captain, and yet that was the version of Sisko that it seemed that DRG had chosen to make him in to, for... whatever reason that never made sense to me.
That said, I'd personally say that it's tied into a bigger "worst non-canon decision" made, and that was DRG being the lead voice in the development of the corner of DS9's ongoing story - I've said before, I feel that he became very focused on the grand plan, making sure that all the pieces were where they needed to be over the course of his writing, but it ended up meaning that the plot was driving the story, while one of DS9's greatest strengths to me was how the CHARACTERS had always driven things, and that just completely tanked a lot of my interest in the developments there, because it didn't feel like the characters mattered, just the way that they were in the right place for the bigger plot. That on top of how it also felt like there was a lot of waiting around for those plot developments to happen, with the characters just standing around, waiting and talking about "well, there's a thing that'll happen, so let's discuss the thing that'll happen so we're ready for when the thing happens and we know how to handle the thing happening when the thing happens."
When there were the occasion side story featuring DS9 developments - Una McCormack's The Missing and Enigma Tales, Jeffery Lang's Force and Motion, even the use of DS9 elements through David Mack's entry in The Fall - it felt more like the familiar developments, because these were stories that had stories centered on the characters and how they responded to the events around them. But the "main" storyline, for lack of a better term, being written and advanced by DRG just felt like novels I was picking up more out of obligation than genuine interest.
Ending the Kelvinverse. Hated that part.
OH yeah, especially the way they have him grow the hair again and shave off the beard when those where both things Avery fought FOR when he was in the role and the nonsense about Kira becoming a Vedek which I just did not like. The funny thing is I actually like his writing but remain unconvinced about literally every create decision he made a DS9 lead.
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