Year Four Comics

[A beaker full of death]

Anyone been reading this?

 

[Christopher]

^^You'll find discussion of Year Four and other Trek comics in the Trek Literature forum.

 

[A beaker full of death]

Oh. Thanks!

EDIT: Though as long as I'm here, any specific TOS fan opinions?

 

[Therin of Andor]

Though as long as I'm here, any specific TOS fan opinions?

Lovin' it!

http://therinofandor.blogspot.com/2008/04/enterprise-experiment-i-picked-up-my.html

 

[FalTorPan]

So far the story is... okay. The artwork is pretty good.

 

[Lieut. Arex]

I know there's a handsome devil on the cover.

Gotta remember to have that shirt taken in.

 

[FalTorPan]

This is off-topic, but when I visualize Arex walking, I think of a three-legged dog with slightly better balance. How might he walk less awkwardly, to the point where it seems like his tripedal form would have developed through evolution?

 

[Therin of Andor]

This is off-topic, but when I visualize Arex walking, I think of a three-legged dog with slightly better balance. How might he walk less awkwardly, to the point where it seems like his tripedal form would have developed through evolution?

He is seen walking briefly in the episode "The Terratin Incident".

"New Frontier" often describes how stable he is in a physical confrontation, and the "ST Log" adaptation of TAS would mention how he could remain in his chair when everyone else fell out!

 

[Christopher]

This is off-topic, but when I visualize Arex walking, I think of a three-legged dog with slightly better balance. How might he walk less awkwardly, to the point where it seems like his tripedal form would have developed through evolution?

I've thought about this for tripedal alien designs in my own SF, and experimented with "three-legged walks" with my fingers, and it seems to me that what makes the most sense is to move the hind leg forward first, then the other two one by one.

 

[Therin of Andor]

it seems to me that what makes the most sense is to move the hind leg forward first, then the other two one by one.

Is that how Species 8472 does it?

 

[Trekwatcher]

This looks incredibly interesting---must...pick...it...up...today!

 

[Lieut. Arex]

This is off-topic, but when I visualize Arex walking, I think of a three-legged dog with slightly better balance. How might he walk less awkwardly, to the point where it seems like his tripedal form would have developed through evolution?

I've thought about this for tripedal alien designs in my own SF, and experimented with "three-legged walks" with my fingers, and it seems to me that what makes the most sense is to move the hind leg forward first, then the other two one by one.

That's how it's described in Geoffrey Mandel's old Starfleet Handbook #13, though when running each leg supposedly works independently.

 

[RookieBatman]

Just bought and read this today, as a matter of fact. Being primarily a TOS fan, the Year Four comics were the ones from IDW that I was most interested in, but the first series left me cold after two issues. I'm glad they didn't do single-issue stories with this run, so that they can actually develop something. It's long been my opinion that it takes about three issues of a comicbook to tell a TV show-length story, so a four-issue mini should hopefully be just longer enough to give it a nice epic feel.
Issue #1, was, as expected, a setup issue. It didn't set up anything dramatically unique, but it made an interesting problem for our crew, and when the whole thing's completed, it should be nicely like have another episode (rather than four more) of the original show.
Oh yes, and the art was a lot better than the first series.