Friday Iguana

This Jamaican iguana is in it for the noms. Mmmmmmmmm.

(Image courtesy of Licoln Park Zoo.)

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - Wedding Bell Blues

Making a prequel is hard. It is doubly hard when you are making the prequel for a show made 50+ years ago. You want to use all the wiz-bang of today, that was impossible when the original was made. So, when the original used sliders, clickers, and analog devices, your prequel must also. No touch screens for you!

I am going to put on my Pedantry Pendant and offer up some spoilers. So, if you haven’t seen the episode in question, you may want to skip this.

*** -- Spoiler Alert! Spoilers Ahead -- ***

Let’s start with Trelane. If you have seen the "Squire of Gothos" from the Original Series, you know who Trelane is. If you haven’t seen this episode, let me fill you in. Trelane is a powerful (Q-like) being who lives on a planet that is about 900 lightyears away from Earth.. When he looks at Earth through his telescope persumably, his view is of the past. He thinks Earthlings are still in the Napoleonic period. Oh wait, how can that be? He was on Earth (in Strange New Worlds) a few years before the Enterprise comes to his planet!

Prequel problem! (Pedantry alert!) You like Trelane and you want to use him – YOU CAN’T! You would like to tie him to Q from the Next Generation – YOU CAN’T. It is a continuity problem. You cannot introduce the Borg. You cannot even use the Romulans because no one knows what they look like until Kirk is the Captain of the Enterprise. This is not the fan service you’re looking for!

So, that is bad enough. But, it gets worse. MUCH worse! You may think (wrongly) that the reason Spock and Christine did not get together on the Original Series was because of Spock’s Vulcan side. He is unemotional, etc. His Vulcan logic will not allow him to experience love. You can semi-gloss over that. He could say he dedicated himself to the Vulcan ways after the captain switch. The problem here is that Spock is ENGAGED to T’Pring! Vulcan biology is not logical, but we know this. Spock is not going to cheat on his Fiancé. He has honor.

So, this episode is dumb up and down. It was meant to be a light fluffy episode to get us past the darkness of the Gorn war. (Borg in a frog suit). I do not know if I will continue watching - it was THAT bad. What is next Tribbles?

Star Trek: Wesley Crusher

So, I have been working on this project for quite a while. During Covid, I was watching a lot of Star Trek (TOS). I was also listening to Radio Free Burito by Wil Wheaton. I also got Still Just a Geek as a present. With all that in mind, I had a dream.

It was the first 4 pages of this comic "Star Trek: Wesley Crusher - Volume 1". I eventually crafted the entire comic around that dream. If you know things about the fate of Wesley Crusher, you know things that don't line up. Stay tuned. I know too!

A new comic will be posted here, on the first Tuesday of the month for several months. I hope you enjoy them. Thanks!

Friday Iguana

The San Fransisco Zoo is home to this fine Marine Iguana

(Image courtesy of San Fransisco Zoo.)

WMAGNFARB: Most Maximal Synth Sorcerer

I think I saw Most Maximal Synth Sorcerer in concert a few years back.

WMAGNFARB: Tax Deductible Bikinis

I think I saw Tax Deductible Bikinis open for Rage Against the Machine a few years back.

Friday Iguana

Here is an iguana that has found a home

(Image courtesy of Brevard Zoo in Melbourne, FL.)