Star Trek

By Siskoid(noreply@blogger.com) PUBLICATION: Star Trek: The Next Generation #34, DC Comics, July 1992 PLOT: Q has transformed the crew of the Enterprise into Klingons and ruckus ensues, with only Worf being able to keep his emotions in check. There are attempts on Picard's life and the Ysalanti prepare for battle...

By Siskoid(noreply@blogger.com) PUBLICATION: Star Trek: The Next Generation #33, DC Comics, July 1992 DIVERGENCES: The title was also used for a DS9 episode. Picard has a different fish than Livingstone in his aquarium. If O'Brien had been a Klingon before, he sure doesn't mention it in Apocalypse Rising.

By Siskoid(noreply@blogger.com) PLOT: While in the Galactic Core, the Enterprise finds a shuttlecraft from the long-lost USS Rickover aboard which is Thomas Clayton, an old Academy acquaintance of Kirk's who is now a fanatical devotee of a god called Ay-nab. Soon, the ships is drawn into a Dyson sphere in the middle of whi...

By Siskoid(noreply@blogger.com) DIVERGENCES: Though Picard promises the training mission will use a Constitution-class, the exterior and interior design is nothing like either the original or refit Enterprise (closer to a Constellation-class, in fact). Not sure who those ladies are on the cover. Ensign Ro's not in th...

By Siskoid(noreply@blogger.com) PLOT: Riker is trapped in a phantom zone, on a station that has been sucked into a rift in space. Though ghostly phantoms tell him there's no escape, he doesn't give up hope. The Enterprise sends a probe into the rift, but though they lose contact with it, Riker turns on the station's shields to...

By Siskoid(noreply@blogger.com) PLOT: The Enterprise rushes to save a space station about to be eaten by a rift in space. Riker beams aboard to help with the evacuation and ends up being the only one left behind when the station disappears. Within, he meets the intangible phantoms of people who fell into the rift before him an...

By Siskoid(noreply@blogger.com) PLOT: Running from the Shardak - a martial honor-bound race of empaths - Picard's old, retired friend, Anson Peters, asks to come aboard with his son. The latter boy becomes fast friends with Wesley, and Picard and Anson reminisce about old times. When the Shardak fleet catches up to the Ent...

By Siskoid(noreply@blogger.com) REVIEW: Though these kinds of alien stories have been overdone, Worf dealing with K'Ehleyr's death gives this one just enough resonance. And when he lunges at the alien at the end and steals a bite (or Klingon kiss), it's a strong moment. There's too much verbiage at times, and the alien neve...

By Siskoid(noreply@blogger.com) REVIEW: Ugh. This story didn't work for me. At all. Though it gives the artists the chance to indulge in barbarian comics imagery, the premise is expounded us via an ensign relaying a message sent by the memorial. Even if I was happy with the babble-a-thon, why the middle man? And since the Enter...

By Siskoid(noreply@blogger.com) REVIEW: You know when I said Okona might not be annoying in comic book form? I was wrong. His insufferable flirting with Crusher, long expository (but not that useful) speeches, and the fact the likeness is way off really don't help. It could be ANY character in this role and it wouldn't chang...

By Siskoid(noreply@blogger.com) 6. Picard has an office. 9. Picard wasn't in Star Trek V. 10. Picard's Enterprise is the flagship of the Federation; Kirk's Enterprise is just an exploration vessel on the fringe. 26. 103 more episodes. 35. Patrick Stewart a sex symbol despite his appeareance.

By Siskoid(noreply@blogger.com) PLOT: Back on Earth, Worf's adopted son, Jeremy Aster, is meeting Alexander for the first time. He finds out that the ¾-Klingon boy would rather live his life as a human. On the Enterprise, Worf wishes he could be there, but that's just not possible. The starship has just found the outrageous O...

By Siskoid(noreply@blogger.com) PLOT: The Enterprise-D gets a distress call from Captain Halk of the USS Marco Polo. Halk is a childhood friend of Riker's, and as we find out in a series of flashbacks, has always been one for taking risks while Riker took the safer road. When the Enterprise finds the Marco Polo, it is surround...

By Siskoid(noreply@blogger.com) PLOT: The Einstein crew and its allies push back the hostiles and manage to get the shuttle into range of the warp ship at the edge of the makeshift space station's range. They then show the hostiles mercy and beam them into the ship's cargo bay. Wesley figures out how to fly the ship, but while i...

By Siskoid(noreply@blogger.com) An enterprising GameMaster would surely be able to do the same with a completely fantastical setting, perhaps as simply as making various D&D settings be different epochs. What if the World of Greyhawk is merely the Forgotten Realms in the far past? Much better would be advancing the...

By Siskoid(noreply@blogger.com) PLOT: The lost crew of the shuttle Einstein has found an agglomeration of ships on the other side of the vortex. A Klingon component tries to reel them in, but it's a Federation beam from elsewhere in the structure that succeeds at doing so. The Betazoid that greets them explains that long ago...

By Siskoid(noreply@blogger.com) CONTINUITY: The antimatter tanker is called Phoenix, presumably after Zefram Cochrane's historical ship (First Contact). The terrorists are remnants of the Circle (The Circle). Admiral Nechayev has been supervising DS9's operations since Emissary. Her choice of replacement for Sis...

By Siskoid(noreply@blogger.com) PLOT: The Enterprise-D abandons its fruitless search for its lost shuttle and Picard is forced to declare the away team dead. Though he holds a funeral in their honor, he doesn't really believe they're dead. Somewhere else in space, Wesley pilots the Einstein to an agglomeration of ships a...

By Siskoid(noreply@blogger.com) PLOT: The Enterprise-D races to help twin colonies infected by a plague and is forced to send a shuttle to the smaller of the two. Riker, Worf, Wesley, Selar and medical staff board the Einstein on that mission. Unfortunately, they hit a wormhole, are whisked off to God knows where, with most...

By Siskoid(noreply@blogger.com) PLOT: It's Beverly's birthday and she's feeling blue, so Deanna takes her on a hiking trip on the holodeck where she learns to feel alive. Riker gives a talk in class and gets pwned by Wesley. And Worf answers some email and tells his ward to pursue the girl of his dreams.

By Siskoid(noreply@blogger.com) PLOT: Wesley invents an alternative to the transporter, the hyperport, that promptly beams an alien named Pierce from a plague-ridden planet. He tries to convince Wesley not to pursue the invention and when that doesn't work, infects the ship's water supply with a plague. He explains tha...

By Siskoid(noreply@blogger.com) REVIEW: We've seen the "crew members go mad" plots before (as far back as Where No Man Has Gone Before, in fact), but Friedman spices things up with a number of fun elements. The mystery of the white hole is intriguing, the Romulan threat makes for a nice cliffhanger, and Worf beating people u...

By Siskoid(noreply@blogger.com) PLOT: The Enterprise-D visits the volcanic planet Lorca, a world colonized by the anti-technologists and theatrical performers 200 years ago that have evolved a society where everyone wears a mask to denote status and function. Federation ambassador Fenton Lewis has acquired the Amb...

By Siskoid(noreply@blogger.com) PLOT: After Riker and Geordi fail to check in, Worf gets suspicious and organizes a search party. The two make their escape from the Ferengi and sneak into their illegal mining facility where they are attacked once again, but the Enterprise has spotted the facility and informed Worf and Da...

By Siskoid(noreply@blogger.com) PUBLICATION: Star Trek: The Next Generation #14, DC Comics, December 1990 CONTINUITY: Dr. Selar (The Schizoid Man) puts in an appearance. DIVERGENCES: The Ferengi shuttle looks like a small Marauder rather than the design seen in The Price and later.

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) PLOT: The border between the Romulans and the Federation is changing, which will soon place the planet Arachnea in Romulan space. However, the Arachnians are suspected of being sentient creatures, and the Enterprise is sent to check on that possibility. If they are, then the Federation e...

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) For decades, the Andorians were given short shrift. How could Federation founders never be assigned to Starfleet ships or play any significant role. Thankfully, Enterprise righted that immense wrong. But where are they now? The Andorians' absence in the TNG era is the cause of great sadne...

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) PLOT: The Pilot-possessed Data gives the Enterprise-D an ultimatum - give the Mezartine requested supplies or be destroyed. Riker beams over in a supply crate and destroys the Pilot's interface with his ship, sending it flying out of control towards a star. Picard offers help in exchange...

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) Stomping Grounds: Star Trek: The Next Generation Side: Good Breed: Somali (pre-transporter accident); American Shorthair (post-transporter accident); Iguana (Genesis) Skills: Eat 7, Sleep 6, Mischief 7, Wit 3, Terrorize non-androids (including the human Brent Spiner) 5

By Siskoid(noreply@blogger.com) PLOT: Q takes Picard back in time to see his parents where he has apparently taken Jean-Luc's place. When Q proves callous about the death of one of the Picards' sons, they reject him and embrace Jean-Luc. Q then offers Picard the chance to save his brother's life, which Picard takes. However,...

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) Taking a step back and looking at Trek today, people will find that 700 hours of viewing is too much, so they look for the essentials. Those essentials are the episodes that have built up continuity, often by being good enough other episodes will want to reference them, bring back memorable...

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) CONTINUITY: Some of the new information in the book was used in later novels. For example, the name of Bajor's sun, B'hava'el, was used in the Millennium, DS9 II and Terok Nor series. The Cardassian rank of Gil also appeared in that last series. President Jaresh-Inyo (Homefront) writes one o...

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) REVIEW: McRobb's coward-to-hero arc is pretty cliché (quite frankly, I'd rather one of the regulars take care of the heroics), but one thing it does is make Worf look good. Comics are good at presenting heroic action, and Friedman has clearly chosen Worf to be his resident superhero. If TNG...

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) PLOT: While Geordi struggles to find the fault in his engines, the Enterprise-D finds a derelict spaceship of unknown origin, devoid of life. When Riker, Pulaski, Worf and McRobb investigate, they are trapped aboard and informed they are samples meant to be put in stasis and brought to th...

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) DIVERGENCES: The Klingon-class cruiser used by the Romulans at the time of The Doomsday Device would make dialogue in The Enterprise Incident redundant. There is a schism and possible civil war between smooth and bumpy headed Klingons, which contradicts even the comics continuity in w...

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) PLOT: Tardol and Picard both stand accused of the Raimonian Primarch's murder. Tardol claims Picard's motive is that the Primarch was going to end the mining agreement between Raimon and the Federation, and invokes a traditional trial by combat. Whoever survices has been deemed innocen...

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) PLOT: The Enterprise-D goes to the planet Raimon for its Primarch's death celebration, held traditionally before the leader's death. He was there once before and made both friends (the Primarch, his daughter) and enemies (the brutish Lord Tardol). The Primarch is nowhere to be found at h...

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) CONTINUITY: Sam Kirk died on Devena in Operation: Annihilate!, a mission which starts with a ship flying into the sun. We now know this was Kirk's time displaced nephew. The Federation President from ST V passes the torch on to the Federation President from ST VI. Carol Marcus (ST II) and Admi...

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) PLOT: In Raise the Defiant, the Enterprise-A takes on a Starfleet engineer who gives them a secret mission - collaborate with the Tholians on recovering the USS Defiant from interphase space. The Enterprise has to use similar interphase technology to reach the old ship, and once it has, t...

By Siskoid(noreply@blogger.com) PLOT: Planet Domakleion now has two queens who have inherited it and can't agree on who should run it. Picard has been given diplomatic status to help them iron out an agreement. The problem: Domaks are telepaths who regularly use others to do their assassinations for them. Neither queen wan...

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) CONTINUITY: R.J. Blaise was last seen in #12. The second story's flashbacks include Spock Kohlinar (The Motion Picture), Spock's marriage ceremony (Amok Time), V'ger (TMP). On Vulcan in the present, we find the HMS Bounty, Sarek and Amanda. Amanda tells Spock about Sybok (ST V). Spock sees a s...

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) REVIEW: The big reveal is at once expected (introduce a guest character and they're highly likely to be a mole) and a complete howler. Man, this story doesn't make any sense! There's no real reasons for the Metans to put an agent on the Enterprise since it risks their discovery. Why does the Fe...

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) PLOT: The Enterprise, bearing an ambassador/expert on the Romulans, heads for the heavily damaged Starbase 14 to look for survivors and investigate. Meeting them is a Tal Shiar ship who wishes to help with that investigation. The crew rescues some survivors (involving the safe removal o...

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) PUBLICATION: Star Trek v.2 #77, DC Comics, November 1995 CONTINUITY: The Romulans are using Klingon ships (The Enterprise Incident). DIVERGENCES: With no time to spare, everyone on the bridge gets into green jumpsuits to conduct repairs. Deadlock is also the title of a Voyager episode.

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) CONTINUITY: Opaka still has followers even though she is lost in the Gamma Quadrant (Battle Lines). Mullibok (Progress) now farms at the barren refugee camp and is quite content there. This mention of the Circle sets up the first three episodes of Season 2.

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) PUBLICATION: Star Trek v.2 #76, DC Comics, October 1995 STARDATE: Unknown (before Where No Man Has Gone Before) CONTINUITY: As per the first few episodes, there are no red shirts. Gary Mitchell is in the crew (Where No Man Has Gone Before).

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) CONTINUITY: Commodore Wesley (The Ultimate Computer) now commands a station near Saturn. The Enterprise is earmarked for a refit that will take three years (The Motion Picture). Other links to that film include Kirk's promotion and both McCoy and Spock leaving Starfleet. Starfleet's hu...

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) CONTINUITY: Though Carol and David Marcus are the focus of the story, there are appearances by Gary Mitchell (Where No Man Has Gone Before) and Sam Kirk (Operation: Annihilate!). The former becomes Kirk's helmsman and the latter is thinking of moving to Deneva.

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) CONTINUITY: We see Kirk's Kobayashi Maru test. Gary Mitchell (Where No Man Has Gone Before) and Carol Marcus (ST II) are still in his life (following the events of Annual #2). The USS Eagle would be used heavily in the Last Unicorn's Star Trek role-playing supplement, The Andorians: Among t...

By Siskoid(noreply@blogger.com) PLOT: Only by playing musical chairs can the bridge crew of the Enterprise-D keep ahead of the ship's twin. When the bogus Enterprise is damaged, it starts repairing itself, at which point sensors detect it is a single life-form animated by sentient energy. Incapable of believing that mat...

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) PUBLICATION: Star Trek: The Next Generation #6, Pocket Books, May 1989 CONTINUITY: The Ferengi are often mentioned as the "big bad", which TNG was pushing in the first couple seasons. Next for the SBG Book Club: Warchild (DS9), The Riddled Post (SCE), Vulcan! (TOS), Masks (TNG).

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) PLOT: Mysteries abound on Zanak Prime as the crew follows the trail of the man who bought an idol in the previous issue and has tried to make its path untraceable. His goal is to sell it to Klingon colonists who want to secede from the Klingon Empire, but persons unknown have intercepted it. And...

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) PLOT: Kirk and Scotty are joined by Sulu and Lukas on an intelligence gathering mission in a sector where the Federation and Klingons are competing for colony space. Disguised as Nilarans, they learn from the local fool called Lanamish that a Klingon colony has recently been recalled, bu...

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) PLOT: While Spock follows T'ariis to the 'gi planet to rescue her on her stepmother's behalf, her father Stonn dies from his incurable illness. That leaves Kirk to convince the Nara authorities to keep the treaty intact lest the Romulans move into the sector. They decide to take their chanc...

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) PLOT: As Kirk prepares to apologize to Nara authorities for the faux-pas that led to the nullification of the treaty, Stonn's wife wonders if her stepdaughter T'ariis could be responsible for her husband's deteriorating health, perhaps by poison. Ironically, T'ariss wonders the same...

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) PUBLICATION: Star Trek v.2 #66, DC Comics, December 1994 DIVERGENCES: There is a DS9 episode titled Rivals. Apparently, Kirk and Spock saw T'Pring between the events of ST III and ST IV, when she was a temple matriarch and no longer married to Stonn (the source of this very much escapes me).

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) 975. Farewell to Star Trek: The Next Generation CONTINUITY: Includes a handy explanation of TNG stardates (which doesn't work for the first season). Next for the SBG Book Club: Power Hungry (TNG), Warchild (DS9), The Riddled Post (SCE), Vulcan! (TOS)

By Siskoid(noreply@blogger.com) PLOT: The Enterprise-D flies to intercept its mirror image, but arrives too late to prevent the destruction of the USS Merrimac. Data notices that the bogus ship's movements mirror those of the Enterprise more than two years prior, so Picard takes a gamble and flies off to what was the ship...

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) CONTINUITY: Kirk names his pet Gary after Gary Mitchell (Where No Man Has Gone Before). Kirk learned metal-working from Tyree (A Private Little War). DIVERGENCES: Spock claims that the entire crew but him is human, though the previous issue showed an alien transporter chief, and by this p...

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) PLOT: The Enterprise explores planet Veneu II and finds a deserted facility with spacetime portals that can look at the systems past. Without warning, a Wumpar ship attacks and in the melee, though most of the landing party is beamed up to the ship, Kirk is transported 300 years in the past t...

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) PLOT: The Federation may have found a way to place a human brain in a synthetic body and Spock goes to Talos IV to offer Captain Pike that chance. Over the last 20 years, Pike and Vina have managed to learn the art of illusion-casting, been given control of Talosian technology, reclaimed the s...

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) PUBLICATION: Star Trek Annual v.2 #5, DC Comics, 1994 CONTINUITY: Episodes revisited are those Janice Rand appeared in, including The Corbomite Maneuver, Miri, Charlie X, Balance of Terror, The Conscience of the King and The Enemy Within.

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) PLOT: As Chekov's would-be love Julia Crandall and Spock are held captive by dissenters on the colony, Scotty tries everything to get something safely beamed onto the alien ship spewing radiation on it. Kirk solves the problem below by giving the colonists an ultimatum that makes the dis...

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) DIVERGENCES: For the first time ever, Kirk and his landing party are wearing body armor. McCoy seems a lot more comfortable and knowledgeable about "ancient" medicine (like sutures) here than he is in ST IV. McCoy has a communicator with an antenna (unless they mean the flip cover acts as an...

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) PLOT: Upon hearing that Academy sweetheart Julia Crandall has died, Chekov tells the story of how he proposed to her. Seeing as they'd be assigned to different ships, she refused, but soon after he was promoted to navigator, she was transferred to the Enterprise. At that time, the crew enco...

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) REVIEW: The big finish is something of a mixed bag. If we start with the bad, I have to mention the motivations of the Klingon time agents. Ok, you go back in time, make the Klingons peaceful and they (ideally) get crushed by the Romulans. And...? Who's gonna get the message? The leader you're tryin...

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) PLOT: Spock identifies a new turning point in Klingon history that could account for its becoming peaceful, so Kirk and crew go back in time to save a Klingon warlord from dying in a plane crash. Kirk and Sulu show off their skills as airplane mechanics and are enlisted by the warlord, which g...

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) PLOT: Kirk, Uhura, McCoy, Suku, Kor and Worf Sr. go back 700 years into Klingon history to make sure peacemaker Khartan is assassinated by his head guard. When the assassins are killed by a modern Klingon explosive, Worf takes matters into his own hands and snipes Khartan from a rooftop. The h...

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) PUBLICATION: Star Trek v.2 #54, DC Comics, November 1993 CONTINUITY: See last issue. Alt-Kirk has Real-Kirk nightmares, i.e. the deaths of Edith Keeler (City on the Edge of Forever) and David Marcus (ST III). Alt-Kor is an ambassador (Errand of Mercy).

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) CONTINUITY: In this alternate timeline, the original Enterprise was never destroyed, Sulu is still at the conn, Uhura is first officer, Spock and Saavik work together at Starfleet Command, David (ST II-III) is alive and working on the Guardian of Forever, and the science officer is Wor...

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) PLOT: The big three are asked to initiate first contact with the Atyansa specifically because they are part of the planet's prophecies. Seems like they were always meant to go on an important quest there. They make it up a mountain, defeating projections along the way, and find their way ins...

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) REVIEW: On the one hand, it's a good Saavik solo story that uses her character well. On the other, I find it hard to believe in the scientist's motives. How he could actually think Romulus is on the side of the angels and Starfleet are the bad guys requires more suspension of disbelief than warp...

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) PLOT: The USS Pacific, Scotty, Chekov and the secret protomatter weapon haven't been destroyed, but transported away by renegade Aegis agents bent on using the weapon for their own ends. On the Enterprise, Gary Seven, a true agent of the Aegis makes himself known to Captain Kirk and expla...

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) CONTINUITY: Admiral Cartright (I assume it's him) was seen in ST V and will again in ST VI. Protomatter was developped with disastrous results by the Marcuses (ST II and III). The mysterious figure is obviously supposed to be Gary Seven, and the cat, Isis (Assignment Earth).

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) CONTINUITY: Crew from the original pilot that appear include Christopher Pike, Number One, Philip Boyce, Yeoman Colt and José Tyler. Scotty was chief engineer aboard Pike's Enterprise (TOS novel: Enterprise: The First Adventure). Spock finds it hard to think of a scenario in which he wo...

By Siskoid(noreply@blogger.com) REVIEW: A good showcase for the characters. The plot doesn't move much, as we already know what their depositions will say, but Friedman gets the chance to work out each of their "voices". Picard gets the most panel space, of course, with some dynamic (thanks to Marcos) flashbacks that make...

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) PLOT: Spock and Saavik are visiting the largely water-bound planet Mardelva, whose government is interested in Federation affiliation. However, there's a (all together now) dissenting faction that would rather get in bed with the Klingons. These guys attack a city, so the Vulcans and a...

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) PUBLICATION: Star Trek v.2 #45, DC Comics, April 1993 CONTINUITY: Both Trelaine and Yeoman Teresa Ross were last seen in The Squire of Gothos, an incident that made her leave Starfleet. She became a judge. Carol Marcus is now doing some lower profile research after her son's death (ST III).

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) PLOT: The Enterprise visits a colony outside Federation space and run by Kirk's risk-taking childhood friend. 12 people have recently died, not from the extreme pollution the colonists are producing, but from violent storms. Spock discovers the storms are caused by incorporeal life-f...

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) PLOT: The Binzalan engineer is badly hurt by the latest radiation leak, leaving Scotty in charge of a ship in massive disrepair. Meanwhile, the mother of the splinter religion's "saviour" is prematurely in labour. The child is born aboard the ship even as the Binzalan authorities arrive a...

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) PLOT: Coming off some boring conferences, McCoy and Scotty hope for an adventure before the Enterprise comes back for them. They decide to help out some Binzalian pilgrims intent on reaching their new home where their pregnant member can give birth to their religion's saviour. McCoy's su...

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) PLOT: The Enterprise searches for a lost science vessel in an area of space punctuated by stellar pulses when an energy being enters the ship and starts possessing various crew members, turning them into elated (read: high), creative versions of themselves. Other, similar entities inv...

By Siskoid(noreply@blogger.com) PLOT: The Enterprise-D is accused of having violated Ferengi space when it was nowhere near it, and Picard is ordered to starbase for the investigation. However, Dr. Crusher falls ill from a slow-incubating virus she caught on the planet Onorrh on her first tour of duty, so Picard immediat...

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) PLOT: McCoy and Wilson save the Maroan leader's life, so the colonists tell them they can't heal anyone anymore. Meanwhile, the Excelsior routes Maroan raiders taking advantage of a Tabukan sabotaging one of their facilities' shields. The Enterprise arrives to rescue McCoy, which it do...

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) PLOT: The Enterprise helps the Excelsior with its repairs and the Tabukans explain how their weapons work. Sulu may have an idea how to use the knowledge that the bombs require super-advanced triggers. When McCoy fails to check in, the Enterprise leaves. He and Dr. Wilson are working on patie...

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) PLOT: The Excelsior was lucky in routing the second Maroan attack, but Sulu doesn't take any more chances and calls the Enterprise for back-up. Because of the medical emergency fabricated by Maroans at the other system, McCoy refuses to leave. Once the Enterprise leaves, however, the Mar...

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) PUBLICATION: Star Trek: The Next Generation #5, Pocket Books, March 1989 CREATORS: Peter David Next for the SBG Book Club: Betrayal (DS9), Invincible Part I (SCE), Invincible Part II (SCE), Planet of Judgment (TOS), Power Hungry (TNG).

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) PLOT: Excelsior manages to route the mysterious enemy from Tabukan space, while the Enterprise investigates a strange plague in another system, one that according to an old medical school rival of McCoy's, was caused by a toxic cloud coming from space. As both ships' captains struggle w...

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) PUBLICATION: Star Trek v.2 #35, DC Comics, September 1992 CONTINUITY: Aboard the Excelsior with Sulu is Janice Rand and Dmitri Valtane (ST VI). Scotty gives Sulu the parts he took out of Excelsior in ST III. Saavik temporarily returns to the Enterprise.

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) PLOT: Some time ago, the dispersed Kitarans found a new homeworld with the help of the Federation. Now, they're about to enter that august body with the help of Ambassador Sarek, an old friend of Kitaran leader Lar'tok. But she's dying, and is meant to telepathically "blend" her experience...

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) PLOT: Kirk, Spock and McCoy beam down to a planet where their imagination becomes reality. Kirk gets trapped in a fantasy in which his son David is alive and serving on the Enterprise. Spock uses his mental control to enter Kirk's reality and remind him that David is dead. Spock's explanation...

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) DIVERGENCES: The revealed, graphical inside jokes are "divergent" even if they're on the same graphics seen on the show. For example, the large cutaway Enterprise features a duck, a plane, a mouse, and NOMAD. Similarly, the Sickbay's diagnostic wall charts your insurance coverage. The h...

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) PLOT: Sulu and Uhura are brought to Quatrin to testify to the massacre, and the security chief tries to use it to get his planet declared a police state, or else those damn Betans will destroy their society. Our heroes are put on a shuttle back to the Enterprise, along with an agent who tries to...

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) PLOT: On a Quatrini space station, Sulu and Uhura witness the massacre of Quatrini agents at the hands of terrorists from the subservient world Beta, who may just be agents themselves if the sole survivor under McCoy's care is to be believed. The Quatrini security man needs Sulu and Uhura t...

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) PLOT: The Enterprise goes out to planet Zuyna to pick up an observer and see if the world is ready to join the Federation. The Zuynans have discovered a rare mineral used in computer processors on a continent inhabited by another species they've termed animals, something the observer cond...

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) PLOT: The sole Pilkorian survivor of the secret colony, a 15-year-old girl called Leeta, swears she isn't from Pilkor, so Spock attempts a mindmeld. He finds a set of memories juxtaposed on her own, and McCoy finds the computer chip inside her head responsible. Is someone trying to fake a Ro...

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) PLOT: While Sulu and Uhura visit an old Starfleet Academy haunt and discuss his plans for the future, Captain Kirk reels from the news that he's inherited a wife and title from planet Pilkor. His old buddy's wife tells him he was murdered after he uncovered his government's secret plans for...

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) CONTINUITY: Reference is made to Kirk's "last orders" (The Tholian Web). The female Romulan Commander and Subcommander Tal were first seen in The Enterprise Incident. Next for the SBG Book Club: Strike Zone (TNG), Betrayal (DS9), Invincible Part I (SCE), Invincible Part II (SCE), Plane...

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) PLOT: The Enterprise stops by Earth for a big Starfleet reunion. Chekov's cousin, Nina Popov, joins the crew as McCoy's intern. And Kirk meets an old friend, Victoria Leigh-Kegen, whose husband, also an old friend and a member of planet Pilkor's nobility, was just murdered. She asks Kirk fo...

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) DIVERGENCES: Uhura, one year older than Kirk and a friend of Carol's? I cry foul (according to the Star Trek chronology, she would be 11 here). Ruth's hair style is totally unlike the one Kirk remembers in Shore Leave. I also wonder if Kirk should have gotten his revenge on Finnegan while in hi...

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) PUBLICATION: Star Trek v.2 #24, DC Comics, October 1991 DIVERGENCES: Kirk admits to liking Harry, after a fashion. Tomlinson being outed as a Klingon mole and the "honorable" Kirk-Klingon relations presented contradict the subtext of ST VI.

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) PLOT: Harry Mudd swears he doesn't know why the Nasgul and her Klingon weapons smuggler friend are after him. The Nasgul desperately wants her artifact back, since it may reunite the Nasgul people under real leadership, not her half-brother's corrupt regime. The Klingon commodore is bac...

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) Yes. Why not? It's a story essentially about an aborted destiny, and the characters' struggle to fulfill that destiny despite Nero's attempts to stop them. In a sense, that's why the film can endure such a light weight villain. Nero's not the real enemy. History's pressure on the Enterprise c...

By Siskoid(noreply@blogger.com) DIVERGENCES: Most divergences are due to the last 3 seasons of Enterprise and include... Archer IV is misidentified as Larocus Prime (Strange New Worlds). Klach D'Kel Brakt is misidentified as a Klingon system, when it is actually the Klingon name for the Briar Patch (The Augments). Andoria...

By Siskoid(noreply@blogger.com) TOPIC: Rodriguez looks at love and dating through the filter of Kirk's experiences. The advice should lead you from pathetic "Redshirt" to "Captain" of your own destiny. Your romantic mission is just like Starfleet's, to explore strange new worlds, seek out new life and new civilization...

By Siskoid(noreply@blogger.com) CONTINUITY: See the last volume for the basics. Scotty mentions the time Kirk was lost in the interphase (The Tholian Web). The da Vinci has helped Pakleds (Samaritan Snare) in the recent past. Gomez uses what she learned in Peak Performance to generate the warp pulse. A 150-year-old McCoy pu...

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) CONTINUITY: The Tholians aren't a major power today because their ships never achieved the same speeds as ours. The Dominion War has eased tensions between them and the Federation. The Tholians stole the original Defiant in The Tholian Web. McCoy's inoculation against space madness from...

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) PLOT: While the Enterprise is way on the other side of the Klingon Empire, the Federation loses contact with Organia and the Klingons start a new war. Months away from the action, the crew attempts the impossible - creating a tachyon duplicate of Mr. Spock with the transporter and sending it...

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) CPP/When Lwaxana walks off the transporter, the second shot of her has own going down the same step a second time, and in a different direction. The Best of Both Worlds, Part I - EO/The Borg can't see through the nebula, but the Enterprise can.

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) DIVERGENCES: The dates are based on the FASA role-playing game's timeline and often contradict accepted canon. There are a heck of a lot of references to corporations for a world where money is supposed to be a thing of the past (maybe it isn't yet). The appendix indicates that the Enterpris...

By Siskoid(noreply@blogger.com) CONTINUITY: The Enterprise's destination is Draconis, which might refer to a variety of locations using that word in the Trek universe. DIVERGENCES: Kirk has never heard of a black hole (even a scientifically inaccurate black hole like this one). Uhura is just a touch too white.

By noreply@blogger.com (Siskoid) So I'm gonna try my hand at continuing the daily Trek reviews with other Star Trek media, at least for now, at a rate of 6 comics and one novel a week (the latter on Sundays). As previously mentioned, comics are going to run chronologically, while novels will jump around from series to series,...