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Jason · Slayer Joined: 16 May 2007 Posts: 92

I picked up the first issue of Star Trek: Romulans: The Hollow Crown and was disappointed with it because it focuses on the Romulan Empire instead of the crew of the Enterprise. They didn't do that with the episodes and movies, and I don't like seeing it done with comic books. I'm not even going to getting the next issue of this series, so they might as well not bother finishing it. I'd like to see more projects that deal with the crews of the Enterprise and the adventures they're having. That's why I didn't get any more issues of the Mirror Universe Saga. Of course, a project that resurrects Data who was wrongfully killed in the movies would be really nice. If they're not going to make another movie that does that, then IDW should offer extra money to make it happen and have it regarded as official Star Trek canon because you don't have to worry about actors getting too old to play ageless characters when the characters can be drawn and therefore immortalized. Then they could just ask for more money out of comic book buyers to pay for a Data resurrection series. They could either have Q bring him back or have some sort of time travel story where someone goes back and suggests to Data my idea of using a phaser as a grenade to blow up the McGovern device. Another thing he could've done would've been to somehow rig the phaser to fire at the device with the same setting without actually having to have someone there to fire it.
God bless, Jason Irelan

DanielW · Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 5:05 pm Post subject:

That New Frontier story was good.
And I think that the Enterprise Experiment went down well with the fans too.
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Jason · Slayer Joined: 16 May 2007 Posts: 92

8of5 · Forum Zombie Joined: 07 Mar 2007 Posts: 412

We've had loads of series telling yet another Enterprise based adventure; The Space Between, Year Four, Intelligence Gathering, The Enterprise Experiment, and Mirror Images (in a mirror universe sort of way). Personally I cherish the more imaginative and innovative series that aren't so Enterprise based, we've had hundreds of Kirk and Spock have an adventure stories over the years in comics and novels, lets do something new! I thought the first issue of The Hollow Crown was great and all the best series so far have been the ones that take a more unusual angle; Klingons: Blood Will Tell, Alien Spotlight, and Assignment: Earth.

There is a device available to bring Data back, B4, however the novels have already ruled that out and I'd rather not have multiple continuities myself. Easy solution to that though, do some TNG movie era comics, pre-Nemesis.
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DanielW · Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 2:15 am Post subject:

Data's dead. Get used to it.
What? Too blunt? Well seeing as you're happy to cancel a series that you don't like, I'm happy to be blunt.
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Jason · Slayer Joined: 16 May 2007 Posts: 92

[quote="Duo Maxwell]
The thing with Q is he didn't bring Tasha Yar back to life when she died an essentially pointless death, he didn't bring back the crewmembers lost when he first introduced the Enterprise to the Borg, he didn't use his power to return Voyager to the Alpha Quadrant as, despite his mischievous nature, he seems to have his own version of the Prime Directive.[/quote]

Yes, but Tasha Yar never actually did any favors for Q like Data did. Data actually saved Q's life once; and I don't think that allowing Data a few seconds of laughter would be an adequate way of thanking him. Also, how do you know there wasn't enough juice in the transporter to beam both Data and Picard back if Data would've done what the female character from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home did by embracing Picard in a hug after rigging a phaser to blow up that McGuffin device instead of killing himself? Somehow I missed the line that said there wasn't enough power to try a stunt like that in the movie. If you're 100% sure there wasn't enough juice, then that could be something else Q could do if he sent Data back. He could make sure the transporter had enough power to do that.

I'm not saying the Star Trek: New Frontier series was a bad series because I agree that it is. What I don't like about the latest series is that they're not based on the series they're about. New Frontier was about the crew of the Excalibur. I like adventures that do what the television episodes do, which is stay on topic with the current series. I've never seen DS9 or Voyager go way off base in any episodes, and I don't like seeing it done in novels or comic books.
God bless, Jason Irelan

DanielW · Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 12:45 am Post subject:

But the single teleport thingy was for one person, and one trip.
The chick is Voyage Home was beamed up by a ship, at full power, and undamaged. With teleporters designed to pick up multiple people.
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Ro-Dan · Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 5:03 pm Post subject:

We've also had the wonderful Klingons: Blood Will Tell, Fontana's The Enterprise Experiment, and currently Mirror Images along with Byrne's Romulans: The Hollow Crown. All quality Star Trek comics, in my view.
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Jason · Slayer Joined: 16 May 2007 Posts: 92

Jason · Slayer Joined: 16 May 2007 Posts: 92

I thought of another alien race I'd like to see featured sometime. I'd like to see the Cytherians focused on sometime. The Nth Degree was one of my favorite episodes for that season.
God bless, Jason Irelan

Ro-Dan · Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 8:05 pm Post subject:

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