…spoilers abound.  You have been warned.

The cliffhanger episode has become a staple of the genre show.  It was once used by soap opera type shows like Dallas to pull viewers in and get them [...]]]> So.  The channel formerly known as SciFi hit the ground running once again with some summer programming.  First we had Warehouse 13.

…spoilers abound.  You have been warned.

The cliffhanger episode has become a staple of the genre show.  It was once used by soap opera type shows like Dallas to pull viewers in and get them talking throughout the break about the show and keep that buzz going.  Now, it’s a device that merely just pisses us off.

That’s because the wrap up of the cliffhanger more often than not happens as quickly as possible.  If not in the first moments of the show, then in the first act of the show, which was the case with Warehouse 13.  Last thing we saw was Artie get blowed up real good.  He comes back, of course, and they explain it away really quickly and explain away most everything else really quickly too, which I hate.

The cliffhanger wrap up has become a terrible terrible thing.  Almost always, the writers, producers or studio execs – whoever is passing the notes around, want to get on with it already, so I don’t think it has the impact that it used to.

As for Warehouse 13, it’s a fun show that you can turn your brain off for.  In fact, I would recommend you turn your brain off when watching it or else you’ll drive yourself up a wall over some stuff.  The opening episode for this season had the elements I’ve come to expect from the show; Artie running around thinking he knows everything only to learn, at the last possible moment, that it’s all upside down, Mica and Pete going off on one of their usual missions while Claudia gets in trouble.

The only surprising piece of entertainment was the addition of H.G. Wells as the big bad; and that H.G. is actually female.

Haven is based on some Stephen King story – The Colorado Kid.  The pilot was entertaining.  An FBI agent is sent to a small, coastal town in Maine to retrieve a fugitive only she finds that he’s been killed when she arrives.  She gets caught up in the investigation of his death and soon realizes that there’s some weird things going on in Haven.  Weird like fogs rolling in and blanketing the town in a matter of seconds, like tornadoes appearing out of nowhere and freak electrical storms.

All in all, it was pretty entertaining, but I don’t know if it has any lasting power.  There’s some cool elements, like the detective who feels no pain, the picture in the town paper from twenty or thirty years past that seems to show the FBI agents mother (she’s an orphan, never knew her mother), stuff like that.  Plus, there’s the fact that it is a Stephen King story, but they’ve tried to turn his stories into tv before with lackluster success.

Still, it was nice to see Nicole DeBoer (Dax from DS9, love interest from that other King show on USA network whose name escapes me) again.

As for Eureka – it’s still sitting in my TiVo waiting to be watched.  That is one fun, smart show and I want to savor it and this weekend was dedicated to (mostly) writing.  I’ll catch it one night this week before the next one airs.

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I say it because it’s my way of pointing out the absurdity of the whole name change bs.  I would also ridicule the [...]]]> John Anealio gave me some shit last week on the Functional Nerds podcast because I always say, ‘The channel formerly known as SciFi’ when talking about the former SciFi Channel, now called ‘SyFy’.

I say it because it’s my way of pointing out the absurdity of the whole name change bs.  I would also ridicule the Food Network if they announced they were becoming the Füd Network so they could show music videos featuring Bjorn, ABBA and Ace of Base.

The powers that be justified their stupidity by saying that changing the name would allow them to move beyond science fiction programming and make way for other types of shows and content, broadening their audience.  So, essentially, they didn’t want to be associated with science fiction anymore.  Except when they did, which wouldn’t be a lot.  Just once in a while.  Like, one night a week.  Probably Fridays.

…well, unless something better came along.

Like Wrestling.

I remember when they added wrestling on Tuesdays.  I barfed.  I also died a little bit inside.  Now, they are taking their Friday night lineup and moving it so they can make room for more wrestling.  MORE WRESTLING!

I’m going to be ill.  Again.

Why not just change your name to USA2 and get it over with?  Put us out of our misery?

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Not a lot.

Chuck

Chuck is back on Mondays.  I love this show.  [...]]]> Well.  Kinda looked like a promising year for SciFi and Fantasy shows, didn’t it?  Now we’ve seen a lot of shows come and go and, if you’re like me, you might be wondering what’s left out there for us to watch?

Not a lot.

Network stuff I like first:

Chuck

Chuck is back on Mondays.  I love this show.  It seems to me that they’ve amped up the comedy this year on the spyfi show.  Everybody should watch this show so we get another season.  It’s worth your time.  Luckily, it’s been doing well in the ratings thus far, so I’ve got my fingers crossed.

FlashForward

Despite having that guy I can’t stand in the main role (Joseph Fiennes as FBI guy Mark Benford), and despite some crappy scripts towards the end before the mid-season break, FlashForward still has a lot of potential.  I’m really hoping that they manage to keep it together long enough to give us a decent second half of the season and a season two of the ratings gods are kind.  With Lost ending it’s run this year, ABC will be looking at what it has or might have that could fill the void.  FlashForward could be a contender (if they amp up the writing).

Trouble is, we have to wait til March to see anything more from this show, which means any momentum they may have had has been utterly lost.

Lost

Lost is still around, but this is the last season for the show.  I have high hopes that the series will deliver a strong ending and a satisfying one.  Note that writers and producers of Lost – we want a SATISFYING ending – not that bullcrap we got from Battlestar.

Fringe

Of all the shows that have potential for greatness, Fringe is the potentialynious.  Potentiameter.  Um…

Fantastic characters; Olivia is driven, determined, she is going to figure it all out and stop the bad guys, Peter is the intelligent, some might even say dashing at times, anti-hero who seems to be growing into the role of ‘do gooder’ quite well.  He has his reasons for doing what he’s doing and we don’t really know what they all are.  Yet.  And then there’s Walter, beautiful, mega-smart, absolutely insane Walter who doesn’t have a filter on his mouth and says things that make me laugh and cringe all at the same time.

This show needs to survive because it can be great.  It can go down in the anals of tv history as one of the top genre shows.  If the writers don’t screw it all up.

Supernatural

I’m worried about the boys.  I really am.  I’ve tried to explain why I like this show in the past and I don’t think I’ve ever done it right.  In my mind, I feel like this show worked because they were sort of flipping us off.  Yeah, it’s a buddy show – but with issues.  Yeah, there’s ghosts, but they’re not your momma’s ghosts.  Shit happens.

But, lately, I feel like they haven’t been quite so irreverent, so flippant – they haven’t flipped me off in a while and I miss that.  The whole Angels/Demon war / apocalypse is taking too long.  If you have an apocalypse, they generally don’t stretch out long enough for people to go for pie, if you know what I mean.  Step it up, boys.  I want an ‘oh shit’ scene like Angel stepping off the elevator in LA to learn that the apocalypse has already happened, it’s here, it’s now – fight it or bend over.

V

I don’t know why I have this on the list.  It doesn’t deserve to be on the list at this point.  They gave us 4 friggin episodes – 4! and then they took the damned thing off the air where it has remained.  It’s being ‘retooled’ or ‘rebooted’ or whatever the hell they call it today in lala land.  I reserve the right to hate it just because dumbass people are involved behind the scenes.

What I don’t like / won’t watch on the networks:

Heroes

Jumped the shark.  Lost the Force.  Got it’s Mojo stolen.

Smallville

I’m surprised this is still on the air simply because the actors aren’t 13 anymore, and the CW likes it’s shows with 13 year olds.  I am going to watch the Justice Society episode because I want to see how badly they screw it up.

The Vampire Diaries

NO. Just… no.

Cable Stuff

Stargate: Universe

The channel formerly known as SciFi knows how to do one thing really, really well: annoy us.

I absolutely friggin HATE the way they do their ’seasons’.  I swear they shoot themselves in the foot with this ‘1.0′ ‘1.5′ ‘2.0′ ‘.5 and three quarters’ season crapola.  Just when the show starts to get good, they break.  They’ll bring back 5 new episodes or some such shit later on this year, then break again, then bring a couple more – it’s moranic.  I hate it.

Did I mention that I hate it?

The show itself was great! I’d love to see more episodes! And maybe, just maybe, sometime in 2010, I will.  After they repeat the first few twenty seven times.

Warehouse 13

See above ‘Stargate: Universe’.

Eureka

(points to the two shows above)

What I don’t like / won’t watch on cable:

Sanctuary

I’ll comment now.  Oh, still see my rant above, but let me add: I really liked the 1st season of this show  It was new and different, had a decent backstory/mythology and I dug it.  2nd season – not so much.  I don’t know what happened, I don’t know if they fired some people or got some ‘notes’ from the network or what – but whatever it is, has really hurt this show in it’s 2nd season, so much so that I haven’t watched the last few episodes because I don’t want to put myself through that misery.

Caprica.

Unless someone very eloquent can talk me into it, I am not interested in this.  And I admit – part of me is afraid that I might like it a little and then the channel formerly known as SciFi will rape my up the  butt by screwing it up.

Syndication

Legend of the Seeker

What can I say? Hmmm.  In order to watch this show, I have to forget that the books exist.  It’s the only way.  If I do that, if I consider it a stand alone piece that has nothing whatsoever to do with the novels as written by Terry Goodkind, then, and only then, can I allow myself to enjoy it.

Sad, but true.

That’s what’s left out there that I see or want to comment on.  There’s some other stuff, but not on my radar at the moment.

Thoughts?  What are you watching?

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When Lost first hit the airwaves, I thought for sure it was going to be stupid.  I had visions of people running around making coconut radios and concocting impossible silly schemes for rescue.  Yes.  I’m saying that I thought it was going to be a modern day Giligan’s Island.

Boy, I could not have been more [...]]]> So.

When Lost first hit the airwaves, I thought for sure it was going to be stupid.  I had visions of people running around making coconut radios and concocting impossible silly schemes for rescue.  Yes.  I’m saying that I thought it was going to be a modern day Giligan’s Island.

Boy, I could not have been more wrong.

Unfortunately (or, fortunately, depending on your point of view (thank you very much, Obi-Wan)), I only watched the 1st season, and not any of the subsequent seasons.  This was due to a lot of things.

The World of Warcraft. I was heavy into this at the time, I mean really, really heavy.  Played every night after work for hours, played on weekends – you name it, I was playing.

Self-imposed television hiatus. I decided I was watching too much of the old boob tube and needed to break from it.  I picked a handful of shows – like 4, to watch every week and that was it.  When one of those shows was on, the tv was on, but other than that, the tv was off.  Lost wasn’t on the list.

Writing again.  I’d started writing again – simple enough.  I was inspired by several things, so I wanted to write and I didn’t want to be distracted by tv.

Anyway, with the final season of Lost looming, I’d been thinking that now might be a good time to get caught up on the series.

As is my habit, I’ve been watching for the Lost DVD’s to come down in price for quite some time.  I enjoy buying a full season of a show and watching as many or as few episodes as I want when I want.  Honestly, if I could get new shows on demand I would (not 1 episode at a time – 1 SEASON at a time) because I just prefer it.  Unfortunately for me, the more popular the show, the less likely that show’s DVD’s will be reasonably priced.

I consider $20-30 for a full season of a show (22-24 episodes) to be reasonable.  I will wait out a show for those prices to drop, and that’s what I’ve been doing with Lost.  But Lost hasn’t been coming down – at least not at the retailers (the instant gratification monster inside of me hates waiting for mail orders to come) that I frequent.

Then, along comes Netflix.  I tried it as a lark, really.  Moved into the new house, I don’t know yet where I am going to put my DVD collection, nor my books, for that matter, so I haven’t setup any book shelves or the curio cabinet I have for DVD’s.  So when I wanted something to watch, I tried Netflix and found Lost on there.  I’ve been slowly streaming episodes ever since, direct to my tv thanks to TiVo.

So, what do I think?

I think they’ve done an excellent job with the show.  It’s better than I thought it would ever be, obviously.  I like that the island isn’t just an island, and it keeps throwing them (and us, as viewers), curve balls.

After the 1st season, I was firmly entrenched in the belief that there were 3 factions: survivors, Others & Monsters.  Since then, we’ve learned that there’s the Dharma Initiative, and this British guy, and these other people, and divisions within the Survivors, and divisions within the Others and the island itself has divisions.  It’s all very complex, but not so much that you can’t follow it and enjoy it.

I was upset (as I’m sure many others were) when Kate apparently chose Sawyer.  Then I was happy that Jack and Kate looked like they were going to get it together only for Jack to screw it all up (at which point I groaned).  When some people got off the island, it was bittersweet.  When people started flashing back and forth in time, I was just as confused as I was mesmerized.

Questions I’d like to see get answers:

Who or what is Jaycob?

Why did Claire just walk away from her son?

Who or what is Richard Alpert?  How old is he?

Why was Jack’s dad’s coffin empty?  Why is he walking around talking to people?

Why was Locke’s coffin occupied when he is up and around walking and talking to people?  What’s the difference here?

Just a few questions I have.  I’m sure there’s more I haven’t thought of.  Yet.

I think the writers do a fantastic job with this show and the actors give it their all.  I’m impressed and looking forward to this final season, and that’s what scares the living hell out of me.

You see, I was just as impressed and enamored with the writers, producers & actors involved with Battlestar Galactica.

…and look what that got me in the end.

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I think it’s sort of a staple of the genre now.  If you’re going to have a futuristic/scifi [...]]]> If, like me, you’re an avid watcher of tv and movies, and a reader of books, you may have noticed a trend towards the disastrous future.  Apocalypse is in and in big.  I mean, it’s everywhere we look.

I think it’s sort of a staple of the genre now.  If you’re going to have a futuristic/scifi story, it damned well better show us how badly we, as a species, have screwed everything up.  Right now at theaters around the country, we have ‘The Book of Eli’, a post-apocalyptic tale of the future.  On TV we have ‘Dollhouse’ that depicts (in Epitaph One and supposedly, Epitaph Two airing this week), a future where science and technology have caused an apocalypse and the overall destruction of all civilization as we know it.

It’s the end all be all of trends.

So I ask you – where has the positive future gone?

In Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek (rebooted last summer and done so quite successfully), we have a future where yes, bad stuff happened and we humans were the cause, but we’ve moved passed that and are now soaring through the stars exploring strange new worlds and all that jazz.  Kinda positive, right?  But it’s the exception to the rule anymore.  I mean, look at what we’ve seen from Hollywood in the past few years:

Jericho

Post apocalypse America where the folks of a small town struggle to survive after nuclear bomb s have destroyed civilization as we know it.

The City of Ember

Based on the Young Adult novels of Jeanne DuPrau, The City of Ember shows a world that was torn by war, so they built a city underground for protection.

The Road

Another post-apocalyptic tale – this one about a father and his young son across a landscape blasted by an unnamed cataclysm that destroyed all civilization and, apparently, almost all life on earth.

Jeremiah

This series takes place in a post-apocalyptic future where most of the adult population has been wiped out by a deadly virus.

I mean, the list goes on and on.

So I ask you again – where has the positive gone?

Are we done with the feel good adventure tale?  With the bright, shining future of the human race, all full of potential and excitement?

What do you think?

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The whole first half.  It was horribly paced.  I felt that [...]]]> As much as I love Doctor Who, and even though I just pointed out that it’s the best SciFi show on tv, I would be remiss if I didn’t point out some of the problems that I had with Doctor Who: The End of Time.

The whole first half.  It was horribly paced.  I felt that the Doctor running away from the summons of the Ood was spot on Doctor; of course he’s going to run away – that’s how this whole series began.  But then it was very choppy, up bits and down bits and slow bits and slower bits – the pacing was very bad.  The Master’s rebirth was, in fact, quite silly.  The whole Nasmith character was a throw away with no real purpose except to offer a thing to be dealt with.

Wilf and the Doctor have chips.  While this was a poignant moment and arguably one of my favorites in either part of the specials, it was wholly out of place.  The Doctor is looking for The Master; he finds him, chases him, almost catches him and then Wilf shows up and they go for chips?

6 billion+ Masters wouldn’t take orders.  I’m sorry, but they wouldn’t.  If you had a planet full of people who were exact copies of The Master, they would, each and everyone, be wanting to do their own thing and take over.  It would be chaos.  They would not, in fact, work together like good little soldiers.

Locked away in time doesn’t REALLY mean locked away in time.  There was a time war, the time war to end all time wars.  The Doctor and The Master both fought in it on the side of the Time Lords of Galifrey.  But something happened and The Doctor locked it all away, sealed them away where the war could no longer hurt the whole of time and space.

But locked doesn’t REALLY mean locked.  In the second part of The End of Time, we see the TIme Lords BEFORE they’re locked away.  Ok, this makes some sense.  They know that something is up and they’re trying to do something about it.  But later, they’re actually locked away and yet they are still able to do things OUTSIDE, like implant the drums in The Master’s mind as a child, toss that diamond at Earth…  SO, locked isn’t really locked?

PLUS, there’s the old woman who is visiting Wilf.  (I still contend that she was Romana.  We may never know for sure.  But if Rassillon can be the President now, why can’t Romana, who was President, be the one trying to warn The Doctor?)  She somehow manages to contact Wilf several times, despite being ‘locked away’.  So, that whole thing made me go ‘hmmm.’.

Lastly, I wanted to throw out there something that I really liked -  that The Doctor had time; time to visit his ‘children of time’, to save them all one last time, or to just see them.  The bit with Rose was nice, as was him setting Jack up with a rebound guy.  But I have trouble with Mickey & Martha.  I’d have to see more of that tale in order to buy it.

Which leads me to a question; when the 9th Doctor left, the 10th Doctor picked right up and continued to have the same supporting characters around him and even grew that family as time went on.  Will the 11th Doctor make a clean break?  Or will we see familiar faces show up again?

Given the trailer for the new series, we will at least be seeing some of the same aliens again, and at least one familiar face.

I suppose only time will tell…

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It seems like every show on these days has a quick logo/name splash scene and then it cuts right to the ‘entertainment’. Not too long ago, shows began with theme songs that were catchy, humworthy and got stuck in your head.  When you heard it, you were [...]]]> Do you remember when tv shows had theme songs?

It seems like every show on these days has a quick logo/name splash scene and then it cuts right to the ‘entertainment’. Not too long ago, shows began with theme songs that were catchy, humworthy and got stuck in your head.  When you heard it, you were instantly reminded of the show.  Sometimes, they even made it onto the radio, became hits of a sort.

Heck, I remember buying a certain song by the Rembrandts for a little show called ‘Friends’.  Going back further, there was the theme for ‘Cheers’, ‘The Dukes of Hazzard’ – even a little diddy from ‘The Greatest American Hero’.

Whatever happened to theme songs for tv shows?  I, for one, miss them.

So, with that in mind, let’s take a look at some of my favorites from a bygone era.

The Greatest American Hero (Believe it or not)

Cheers (Where everybody knows your name)

The Dukes of Hazzard (Good ‘ol boys)

Friends (I’ll be there for you)

Airwolf

Growing Pains (As Long As We’ve Got Each Other)

Magnum P.I.

…and who can forget this one?

Miami Vice

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…now that the movie [...]]]> One of the things I noticed when I watched last summers blockbuster, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, was that the workers in the undersea MARS facility, seemed to be wearing Deep Space Nine era Starfleet uniforms.  I couldn’t prove it, of course – I didn’t have screen shots from the movie.

…now that the movie is out on DVD, though…

Actually, getting a decent screen shot proved difficult.  Still, I managed.

So – first off, let’s take a look at the DS9 uniform:

That’s courtesy of some costume shop. Here it is actually on the crew:

Essentially, what the costumers did was take the color’s of the Starfleet uniform that we all knew and loved (red, blue, gold) and made them like an under shirt with a black and gray coat over them.  Pips go on the collar, communicator on the chest.

I liked these a lot better than the all in one jumpsuits from the 1st season and even better than the 1-piece uniforms of subsequent TNG seasons.  Very sleek.

Now, let’s take a look at the uniforms worn by the MARS employees in G.I. Joe: the Rise of Cobra:

That really was the absolute best shot I could’ve gotten.  When these guys go by on screen, it’s so fast, you only catch flashes of the outfit (but it was enough to make me go, hmmm).  In this one, we can see that it’s -very- similar.  Burgundy under shirt with a gray and black overcoat.  Stripes on the shoulders and (vertical) cuffs are different (on DS9, they ring around the cuff), as are the pockets and the zipper.

Another shot shows a slightly different angle and (apparently) different coat:

No pockets on this one that I can see, which leads me to believe there’s a couple versions of the coat.

Did Paramount decide to save a little cash by using the old DS9 uniforms?  Just changing them up a little? I don’t know, maybe.

What do you think?

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This was the beginning to what has become the most iconic science fiction television series of all time – and [...]]]> Space.  The Final Frontier.  These are the voyages of the starship, Enterprise.  Its mission; to explore strange, new worlds, to seek out, new life and new civilizations, to boldly go, where no man has gone, before…

This was the beginning to what has become the most iconic science fiction television series of all time – and the most hotly debated.  Some people think it is the worst thing that could have ever happened to SciFi.  Others, that it symbolizes everything that SciFi should be; part cerebral, part western expansion and all adventure.

We all know the story; Farm boy dreams of bigger and better things, joins the military, meets a southern doctor and goes off to have an adventure.  They meet an Elf who seems to know just about everything about anything and the three of them live happily, ever after… mostly.

When it was cancelled in ‘69, many thought that was the end.  Silly, silly people.  Star Trek lived on in novels and comics and, eventually, came back in the form of a series of block buster movies and then several follow-up television series set in the future of the Federation.

But today, we’re looking at comics.  First up to have the license was Gold Key.  I don’t have any of the Gold Key comics but I went out and found some cover art for you to take a gander at:

Gold Key had the license from ‘67 – ‘78.  I have no idea whatsoever if they were any good or not.  The cover art is very interesting though…  Gold Key held a lot of tv licenses though, so I wonder about quality of story and art.  If you are a fan, please let me know how these books were.

Next to have the license was Marvel.  Again, I don’t have any of these (that I recall).  BUT, I went out and found you some more cover art to check out.  Compare it to the Gold Key above – you can definitely see the ‘Marvel Style’ coming out in this cover:

My initial reaction to these very different covers are this: Gold Key obviously did not have permission to use the font/logo, which Marvel did (or maybe they did, but chose to use something different?  Who knows?!).  Gold Key’s artwork is very retro/indicative of the 60’s (to me) compared to Marvel’s artwork which looks oh so very 80’s to me and very much in the Marvel style of books printed at the time.  Gold Key had better likenesses of the characters at first glance (McCoy & Uhura? look terrible on the Marvel cover – though Spock is recognizable as Spock).  Other than that, I don’t have much to say since I started when DC took over.  Again, if you’re a fan of the Marvel run, let me know – I’d love to learn more about them.

Speaking of DC…

My very first Star Trek Comic.  As you can see, the Enterprise is heading straight for a fight with the Klingons.

DC’s run was my favorite.  I’m going to talk about the publishers who came after in another post, but the rest of this one is all DC, so buckle up.

DC’s take was decent and faithful, in my humble opinion.  They had a lot of stuff that they had to deal with – mainly, the movies (There was no ‘Next Generation’ yet).  Essentially, the movies were canon.  Novelizations – not canon.  Comics, not canon.  SO any time they had a movie, the writers of the comics had to adapt.  Most of the time they did an excellent job.

When Star Trek 3 came out and Spock died, for example, they adapted in the comics and introduced new characters, had Saavik step in – that sort of thing.  Then, when Star Trek 4 came out, which took place days (or possibly weeks) following 3, they had to adapt again.  Same for when Star Trek 5 came out – had to adapt.

Above you see two of the WORST characters ever created.  They were in Shatner’s ‘Final Frontier’, which was just horrible.

One of the things that the comics was able to deal with (somewhat), was the Trial of James T. Kirk.  Something that always bothered a cousin of mine, was the line from one of the movies (Was it 3 or 4?) wherein the Klingon Ambassador told the President of the Federation, “There will be no peace as long as Kirk lives.”.  When 6 came about, and Spock was suing for Peace with the Chancellor, that same cousin just couldn’t buy it due to that line from the movie.

In the comics, they brought this point back and actually had the Trial.

A three part story-arc, The Trial of James T. Kirk allowed the writers to bring back many characters (including: Samuel T. Cogsley) from past storylines going back to the original television series.  The prosecution was trying to prove that Kirk had interfered with dozens of cultures throughout the decades, violating the Prime Directive time and again, causing chaos and leaving each world in a state of disarray they found it difficult, if not impossible, to recover from.

The verdict came in and Kirk was cleared of all charges and the Enterprise returned to duty once it became clear that there was a plot going on to cause mischief.  We also learned that the Klingon’s had a secret spy in Starfleet – that would come back later on.

It was an interesting story and take on the trial, and gave them an excuse to trot out a lot of the characters that we really wouldn’t have otherwise seen.

One of the things that comics (and novelizations) could do that Hollywood couldn’t (until 2009, that is), was bring us back to the original 5-year mission.

So, rather than go in a straight line, so to speak – a lot of time, DC would take us back and forth – give us a few issues or a story arc in the ‘current continuity’, and sometimes go back and tell us a story from the past.  With this method, they managed to keep us entertained and engaged.  Fans of the Original Series got to see ‘Classic Trek’, or they could see something with the older crew still chugging along.

And, what Trek book (or post) would be complete if we didn’t have Enterprise shown in all her glory! Through the years, they did a lot of really fantastic covers that featured Enterprise in every way and shape possible.  Here are a couple of my favorites:

I have more to say about the DC run of Star Trek.  Stay tuned…

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