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jducoeur ([personal profile] jducoeur) wrote2008-03-14 12:15 pm
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The Star Trek story I've been waiting for all my life

Slight exaggeration, but not a huge one, really.

The latest Previews (the comics-ordering catalogue) included a new comic from IDW. The title is "Star Trek Second Stage -- Assignment: Earth". For a lot of us who grew up on the original series, this is pretty intriguing. Yes, it's the continuing adventures of Gary Seven in the 20th Century (and beyond -- the book supposedly moves at a clip of one year per issue). I think I'm far from the only one who has always wished that the Assignment: Earth TV series had seen the light of day.

Of course, the possible downside is that it's written by John Byrne, who is, to say the least, hit-and-miss. His most obvious flaw is that he has a tendency to completely ignore anybody else's continuity in favor of his own muse, which often gets him in trouble when he's on established stories. However, on a remote spinoff like this, that's not as much of a big concern. (He probably won't pick up on Lightfleet, but I never really expected to see that in anything authorized.) More seriously, he's not the hottest dialogue writer around, which may prove unfortunate.

OTOH, he's pretty imaginative, and has a good sense of the strange, so I'm curious enough to pick this one up. We'll see how it is...

[identity profile] antoniseb.livejournal.com 2008-03-14 04:39 pm (UTC)(link)
A recurring role for Teri Garr would have been nice.

[identity profile] johno.livejournal.com 2008-03-14 06:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Teri Garr... {siiiiigggghhhhh}

{grin}

[identity profile] baron-steffan.livejournal.com 2008-03-15 07:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Ironically, my expectations at this point for anything connected with Star Trek are so abysmally low that I'm likely to be pleasantly surprised by anything new. Even the new movie. Expecting anything remotely resembling continuity, or even a no-brainer pickup of a promising thread from the past, is just setting yourself up for a fall.

On the other hand, yes, I've always lamented the fact that A:E wasn't picked up for further development.

And yes, I had a huge crush on Teri Garr, too. I'm mean, I'm an American guy who grew up in the 50's and 60's. Teri Garr. Dawn Wells. Barbara Eden. Diana Rigg. It's a given %^).