[IDW's Star Trek: Day of Blood #1 comic] Star Trek Confirms an Underrated TNG Crew Member Is Destined for Command (screenrant.com)

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I hoped for Barclay but it's Beverly Crusher.

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[-] CeruleanRuin@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I really would love for this community to implement tags of some kind. I honestly couldn't care less about what characters are doing in the comics.

I can't be the only one getting a little tired of clickbaity headlines like this exploiting the ambiguity.

Edit: Big props to OP for editing the title.

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I'll edit the title.

[-] CeruleanRuin@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

You're a cool dude, OP. I withdraw my griping. :)

[-] StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago

There are several of us who would like eventually to see a Treklit community here for books and comics.

We’re still a ways away from having the numbers to make that viable so we’re all together with the shows in the main Star Trek community for now.

Lemmy doesn’t yet offer functional tags unfortunately. Best to keep our sense of humour as most of us do our best to use the titles to distinguish.

[+] Reva@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[-] StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

Great to know! There are more novelverse fans here than I think we realize.

I don’t know if the mods (@ValueSubtracted@startrek.website ) would be up for it but I’d love to have some of the authors with a fediverse presence to come over for an AMA sometime.

[-] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

We're definitely open to it, but aren't usually in the habit of hounding people over it, if you know what I mean. As we become more established, we might be able to make some organic connections, and follow up on some from the Reddit days.

As for a Treklit community...it's probably too soon for one, but the best way to make the case for one is to have a lot of Treklit engagement in c/startrek. We want to see that in general, which is why we've been trying the weekly comics post.

[-] StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

I’m enjoying the weekly comics posts.

We usually wait to get the omnibus editions rather than order one by one. (Our local independent comic book store does better with special ordering those although they carry the occasional individual issue.)

So it’s good to get user reviews to help decide which ones to invest in.

I’ll try to get some book reviews up of the new releases. We got in all the Prodigy books as a show of support, so I was planning to give them a quick read.

[-] ren@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

don’t understand Barclay stans.

He was problematic AF and then when he did have confidence, he was always a bit of a dick. And he had the absolute worse combover in starfleet.

[-] MajorHavoc@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

His story arc in Voyager is pretty redeeming.

[-] ren@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, we just did a rewatch and I’m still… not a stan. He just gives me the heeby jeebies.

[-] Cobrachickenwing@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

If Barclay can't even command an away mission how is he going to command a starship?

[-] Treatyoself@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I was reeeeeeaaaallly hoping for a Barclay cameo in Picard. Alas, poor Barclay never gets a break.

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

He got a lot in Voyager.

[-] askryan@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

Barclay's actor has become a truly odious person in real life –– I don't think the TNG cast (Stewart in particular) would have agreed to have him on the show.

[-] ArrogantAnalyst@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, sadly that’s my impression as well. I really like his acting style and remember him especially for this scene. But it’s not easy to separate the artist from his art.

[-] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Command and medical are two separate tracks though. Would a captain of a hospital ship need a medical degree?

[-] CynicalStoic@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

That’s true but I would think that the career path to captain would be more agnostic. Starfleet would benefit from having captains with tactical backgrounds, scientific. Backgrounds etc.

[-] DrChaotica@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

Same reason lots of school principals are former teachers, I guess?

[-] SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Probably not need but it would be helpful when determine where to apply what limited resources (time, staff, ship location) is most needed for a given mission

[-] Blamemeta@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Crusher? Shes a doctor, not a captain

[-] dmonzel@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

"All Good Things..."? PIC S3? Hell, she was the ranking officer of the Enterprise-D in "Descent".

It wouldn't shock me if the Federation had a fleet of medical ships captained by doctors.

[-] Blamemeta@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Its a joke, jim

[-] th_in_gs@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

I can’t quite imagine how the TNG -> Picard timeline for her works out given this, presuming this is meant to fit into the same timeline. Can someone who knows the comics universe lay it out?

[+] DrManhattan@lemmy.design -14 points 1 year ago

Underrated? More like boring and uninspired character. She was almost as annoying as her son on the show.

[-] cloudy1999@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm watching the first season of TNG now with someone who's never seen it before. That's forced me to look at the series with fresh eyes. One thing that strikes me is that TNG took a lot of risks in the beginning to make a new kind of Star Trek. I see the Crushers as one. Some risks didn't work out as well as others, but Star Trek overall benefited. IMO, it would be edifying revisit Dr. Crusher and see more character growth like in Picard.

Edit: grammar

[-] transwarp@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Wesley's mom, a main character, was initially going to be the ship's teacher. They shifted her over to the empty doctor position without changing much about her. Then they made a new teacher who was also changed to be a bridge character, as the ship's pilot.

While Riker and Troi are adapted from Decker and Ilea, Beverly was more extrapolated from yeomen Colt, Smith, and Rand.

Edit: specifically, their bios were mostly about a potential relationship with the captain, how competent they were (making them reasonable mates for him), and having the "walk of a striptease queen."

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