Actually, Mackenzie Calhoun has been portrayed once before by an actor:

James Cawley, (Kirk from Star Trek: Phase II) did portray him back in 2006 – or was it 2005? – in the 5th episode of Star Trek: Hidden Frontier`s 6th Season called “Vigil”.

Complete with TNG-Moive-Era Uniform and Scar. (No purpel Eyes, hoewer, I doubt that they would have look good on the screen due to the camera-Quality).

Now THAT was great. Romulans, Shelby, Calhoun, Lefler (okay, Joanne Busch is NOT Ashley Judd but she`s doing a fine job).

http://www.hiddenfrontier.com
http://excelsior2.hiddenfrontier.com/Queue.aspx?FileID=135

And I read that some fans are going to do a complete New Frontier Movie. But it`s still in the pre-production; they don`t even have got a homepage yet.

Well, I admit that Peter Davids New Frontier novells are quite a mess from time to time and certainly NOT the Star Trek-Stories some of you grew up with. But that`s the fun of them. For me, Calhoun is the coolest Starfleet Captain of all times. This Cowboy-William_Wallace-Renegade Stlye is so cool.

Okay, Morgan Lefler (aka Number One from “the cage” aka Nurse Chapell – according to Mr. David) is a copy of Lexa Doig`s Character “Andromeda”: Dead, but her mind controlls the ship; she appears in holographig form; etc, etc. Not very original but okay.

And in his last 2 novells he did mess up with the “continuity” we grew acusstomed to – he set a dely of 3 years in his books; now there did happen a lot in these “3 years” and he did not even tell us what happened at all; just took us readers on the ride and that was it. But still NF are my favourite Trek-novells and PAD-Guy is my favourite Author!

I can`t wait untill these comics are available on AMAZON-Germany and/or be sold in a collectors edition.

Stephan,
Bavaria, Germany

I am ASHAMED that I know this – but a few years back the X-Men tangled with Gary Mitchell.

No I’m not kidding!

The X Men hitched a ride on the Enterprise to go fight this guy.

Turns out Mitchell had merged with a Marvel Universe creature of some sort.

Spoliers:
http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Star_Trek_-_X-Men

Oh and if Peter David is lurking (as he is a huge Trek fan) – Welcome back to She hulk! (and I’m sorry for what that Pak dude has done to YOUR Hulk).

I look forward to reading this New Frontier issue tomorrow.

Even More Marvel Irony- The ship in this comic is called “Excalibur”

J Michael Strazinski Producer of Crusade and Babylon 5 – Also featured a ship named Excalibur and he too now writes comics for Marvel

Casting would be easy – Patrick Stewart could easily play two key roles :)

If only Peter David had thought of this shunt drive prototype earlier he could used it to cross universes, travel to, (and save Brice Banner from) that ridiculous Planet Hulk!

For instance, Burgoyne, the engineer (when it starts) comes from a sex crazed hermaphrodite species, and s/he proceeds to seduce a vulcan going though pon farr as well as Mark McHenry. Calhoun and Shelby must get married along the way, because they were ex-lovers at the beginning of the thing, and all this leads to the problem that quite a bit of the books I’ve read concern themselves more with their romantic exploits that the back story.

I’m not saying that Trek needs to be prudish like we see in Next Gen, but a little bit goes a long way, you know.

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I thought the revelation that Mark McHenry was descended from Apollo was a great way to make a nod to a seemingly self-contained TOS episode.

And of course, Jellico, Shelby and Lefler were some of the most prominent supporting characters in TNG’s seven years.

I’m looking forward to this one.

Now wouldn’t that be totally cool (and–hello paramount–profitable)? :)