Will Decker in literature
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There was an excellent Decker short story by Diane Duane in the 2000 anthology Enterprise Logs. Decker also featured heavily in DC's second Star Trek Annual, which chronicled the final adventure in the five-year mission.
He also had a brief cameo in The Brave and the Bold Book 1.
He also had a brief cameo in The Brave and the Bold Book 1.
I'd also recommend the second DC Comics Series I Annual, "The Final Voyage" (where the TOS crew, returning home via Talos IV, see Decker in his TMP PJs and are not sure whether to be impressed).
Also check out: the "Lost Years" instalment, "A Flag Full of Stars" by Brad Ferguson; and the novel "Ex Machina" by Christopher L Bennett, which seems to fill in a few gaps and pick up on the same Decker/Chapel connection from the aforementioned Duane short story, even though EM is set three weeks after Decker's disappearance.
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The Mirror Universe version of Will Decker appears in my short novel The Sorrows of Empire, in the trade paperback Star Trek: Mirror Universe — Glass Empires.
he doesn't apper but is mentioned in the Titan series book #3
Just as "Ex Machina" has flashbacks and remembrances of Decker, so Ilia is also referenced. There are mentions of her time at Nehru University in India. Also a little backstory about Ilia’s father, which is based on brief character notes in The Making of ST: TMP.
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IIRC, the strip premiered a week before the movie did, and someone probably thought it was a good idea to have her in it to help generate some interest in the character without spoiling her fate in the movie.
That's not a bad comic expect for a slightly odd moment where we see Sulu's greatest fear - being accused of being a Japanese solider during ww2 - say what?
Probably, since for most of the time the background cast of TMP worked on the movie, their hopeful expectation was that a series of telemovies would follow, and that they'd all get jobs so long as they didn't get killed off, and they knew Persis had signed a five-year contract.
The end of one version of "In Thy Image" - in which Chekov had named the first V'ger probe as "Tasha" (because it reminded him of his Aunt Tasha's pearl ring) and the name then transfers to the Ilia Probe - Will Decker and V'ger vanish to another dimension and the landing party find a burnt, pitted probe thingie lying on the ground - all that's left of Tasha.
When they return to the Enterprise, the real Ilia appears, unharmed. I figure this was Thomas Warkentin's premise for the comic strip, that Ilia herself survives TMP. The script for TMP was being rewritten daily towards the end of principal photography.
That's not a bad comic expect for a slightly odd moment where we see Sulu's greatest fear - being accused of being a Japanese solider during ww2 - say what?
An accusation of guilt due to race? Not an unreasonable fear. Even in the 23rd century, we had seen racism against Spock ("Balance of Terror").
Probably based on the known fact that Takei's family, though US citizens, were interred during that war.
^^Yeah, but is it plausible that Takei's fear would be Sulu's fear three centuries later when racism within humans has ceased to exist? (The only racism we saw was cross-species.) It works as a metatextual reference, but not so much as an in-universe characterization.
I often worry I'll be mistaken for a Hessian soldier from the Thirty Years War (1618-1648)...
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^^Err, isn't that the 230 Years' War?
And my second-biggest worry is making stupid typos...
What about Scotty's racism against Klingons, speaking of racism?
What racism, he didn't start a fight until they dissed the Enterprise. I'd say that shows restraint. I've have decked one the second he dissed my captain.
What about it? Christopher already mentioned that cross-species racism continued to exist in the 23rd century.
