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Star Trek Comic - Jane Kirk?
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Anyone got these 2 issues? I got them both and thought it was a good read. Really a neat way to do a story as well. I hope they would done more than 2 issues.
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But then, I always take issue somewhat when alternate reality stories come up, where despite hundreds of years of history (if not more) being wildly different from the original, somehow through the magic of soul-mate-magnetism, throughout all of history all the same birds met all the same bees and hopped in the sack on all the same dates to have exactly all the same brave little explorers colonize exactly all the same little planets and randomly mutate into exactly all the same people as inhabit the original timeline, who all get the same names, but grow beards and wear a lot of sashes...
I suspended my disbelief once already. Now they're just pushing their luck.
It would've worked better, I think, if they'd framed it differently. Say, Q and lady-Q, hereafter referred to as the X, get a little more tied up in gender issues than omnipotent energybeings really have any business to. But there's nothing else to do, so the X grabs a few spare X-chromosomes from Pandora's box (that's where I'd keep them) and knocks loose a few strands of timeline to prove her point. Anything your Jim can do, my Jane can do better.
That way at least it's a little less far fetched. They could have had the two crews working separately in the same comics encountering the same situations and resolving them differently, with Q and the X arguing about who's mucking things up worse, and not everyone would have to have their genders reversed this way either, so I wouldn't be stuck wondering how the hell that whole evacuation scene on the Kelvin would've worked out with the pregnant party in the suicide seat...
As it stands, it's just another case of "step around the plotholes and you'll be fine", I guess.
It was a fun story arc. I liked the concept. Thought the art was nice. And absolutely LOVED a certain cameo in the second issue (won't spoil it).
Not seeing it. Using the deus ex machina of Q isn't less far fetched.
Having Q or another directing force behind it allows you to have a vastly different and at the same time very similar universe without throwing causility out of the window altogether. It doesn't have to be one convenience and coincidence after the other.
Let me guess...Stan Lee as an admiral?
(Just guessing, seriously. I've not seen it.)
Haven't read it, don't really have an interest to do so. I'm not knocking this specific work, but I'm not really fond of gender-changing, race-changing, species-changing, or similar swaps. To me it comes across as cheap-gimmick, shallow storytelling, or worse, an agenda. What's next? Uhura as a white man? McCoy as the half-vulcan member of the crew?
Good guess. But nope. It's a star trek character. It was just really funny placement, and yet, fit what was going on in the story at the time.