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Gotta be honest, I'm not really too upset that Disney doesn't own Star Trek....
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Commander Liam Shaw will be in IDW's Star Trek ongoing
(i.imgur.com)
Sisko and Shaw in a single comic? Can one story really contain that much animosity towards Picard for what happened at Wolf 359?
There would be actual canon issues if that was the case as opposed to the mostly imagined ones that people bring up.
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USS Cerritos Crew Handbook - Impressions
(startrek.website)
I just finished the "USS Cerritos Crew Handbook" by Chris Farnell, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
The book is formatted to be exactly what the title says, a handbook for new crew, specifically lower deckers, joining the Cerritos. It's a new update being written by Boimler with entries from several other members of the crew. Except it's presented as being a shared document with editing notes -- mostly from Mariner and Boimler -- as well as entries written by Mariner who hacked Boimler's password after he did not ask her to contribute.
It's almost certainly the closest thing we've gotten to the "TNG Technical Manual" in this new era of Trek production, even though it's more about the duties and responsibilities of the a junior officer aboard the Cerritos, and the closest thing to technical information in the book is Rutherford's entry on different tools and what the various coloured stripes on the tricorders mean. There is a complete MSD for the Cerritos, but the writing is too small for my old man eyes.
There's a lot of jokes, referencing other Trek productions, as well as LDecks. I think Farnell does a good job capturing the voices of the characters he's portraying here. My only gripe is that Shaxs, my favourite character, was a bit off. Unfortunately, I believe all the art -- and to be clear, the thing is mostly pictures -- is stills from the show or promotional material, with nothing original to the book.
Anyways! It's a fun book that can easily be read through in a single sitting. I'd recommend if it you're looking for something to to enjoy while waiting for season five.
It is wild how much shit Geordie gets for the Leah Brahms hologram.
It is also wild that no one ever interrogates the fact that the computer essentially made a hologram so it could hit on Geordi, either.
Ugh, I knew there was someone I was forgetting!
My apologies that this one's going up late, even by my standards. Between work, social obligations, and my internet going out during the time I normally have to write these, I wasn't able to get it up when I'd like. Still, it is (barely) before the next episode drops, so there's that.
MRW the ship is overrun by tiny monsters demanding “treats” and threatening us with “tricks, but the captain won’t let me detonate the warp core!
Exactly. Would the Klingons have even noticed if they were breaking out into opera or drinking songs?
Makes sense. That is a mane that radiates authority and command.
A lot of the people who've made Star Trek over the years did not care about continuity from one episode to the next, let alone between series.
Personally I find long running media franchises with ongoing continuity fascinating. It's like the Winchester Mystery House; a beautiful maze like construct with sudden dead ends, doors to no where, abandoned additions, inconsistent design, and occasional Shakespeare quotes. Except instead of one mourning woman directing all the construction, it's been 56 years of countless writers, directors, production designers, and showrunners all contributing to Trek continuity.
It's fun to see how everything fits together, and those spots where it does not. That's just my take, anyway.
"The Trouble With Edward" is canon, but Gene Roddenberry himself could descend from the heavens on the back of Kukulkan with Jeffery Combs riding shotgun to tell me that the Tribbles cereal commercial is canon, and my response would be, "Okay, but is it though?"
He's an actor and comedian from New Zealand. Off the top of my head, he's been in:
I'm pretty excited by the idea of him showing up in SNW. His line read of "We're werewolves, not swear wolves," lives in my head. My guess would be him playing a Mudd/Okana type figure.