When/If Trek Lit reaches 2387

[Fer]

Indeed don't want it to be like Marvel and DC where death never sticks to popular characters.

Or unpopular characters... or any characters...

Peter David has often said that Heaven in the comic book universes uses a revolving door.

 

[Christopher]

Indeed don't want it to be like Marvel and DC where death never sticks to popular characters.

Or unpopular characters... or any characters...

Except Uncle Ben and Thomas and Martha Wayne.

 

[shanejayell]

Thomas came back for a bit in Flashpoint. *lol*

I'm not a fan of ST:O anyway, so if Trek-lit wants to ignore it, fine by me.

 

[JoeZhang]

If I remember correctly, Uncle Ben was brought back to life a couple of years ago, he wandered off at the end of a storyline and it was never mentioned again..

 

[Christopher]

If I remember correctly, Uncle Ben was brought back to life a couple of years ago, he wandered off at the end of a storyline and it was never mentioned again..

No, it was resolved. It was part of Peter David's short-lived Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man series, which unfortunately got sidetracked by all the big-event crossover stuff like Civil War and Back in Black, but PAD managed to wrap up the stories he wanted to tell nonetheless. Unfortunately, the conclusion of his FNSM storyline is only available in trade as part of the same TPB that contains the truly awful Back in Black storyline in JMS's Amazing Spider-Man (the part that led directly into One More Day). And that's under the Spider-Man: Back in Black banner rather than FNSM. So I can understand how people might think the story was never resolved.

Spoiler: FNSM/Uncle Ben

It's an alternate-universe Ben Parker who's then murdered by a future incarnation of the Chameleon. So yeah, he still dies.

 

[MatthiasRussell]

I think the attitude the authors have expressed is a distaste for the overuse of resurrection in general and the way it cheapens death. That doesn't mean there can't be occasional stories where it works. If somebody came up with a very good idea for resurrecting a certain character, a way to do it that wasn't just a wish-fulfilling copout and didn't cheapen the impact of death, then I doubt there's be much authorial/editorial antipathy for it, because it's not about whether a specific character is alive or dead but about whether the stories are good or meaningful.

What are your thoughts about how Data's return was done in Needs of the Many? I thought it was interesting and emothionally gripping.

I understand your point with regards to biological death but since synthetic life have different life prospects and possibilities, does their return cheapen death?

I understand not wanting to just grant the wishes of the fan-body because that's a slippery slope and catering to fanboys doesn't make for high quality story. However, giving the fans something they want and are in anticipation of on occasion could be a way to generate enthusiasm for treklit.

 

[JD]

what no one thinks they were any good ideas in STO? They use species 8473 or whatever, I think. honestly, the only quality new opposition race brought in during the entire voyager run and so under developed unlike the Dominion in dS9

I though Christopher Bennett did some great stuff with them in Places of Exile, and while that was technically set in an alternate universe, what was established would include the Prime Universe and I'd hate to see that replaced with the STO version of Species 8472 aka the Groundskeepers aka The Undine.