Comments on: TrekInk: Early Review – Star Trek: Countdown #2

By: ProudNerd

ProudNerd — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:47:45 +0000

Hey. Data’s back! That alone is enough to make me consider this comic as being “canon” for me!

Y’all wouldn’t believe how frickin happy I was to find this out. I almost quite literally cried tears of joy!

By: GB

GB — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:53:29 +0000

Writers seem to be pretty clueless about what a super nova is beside it being an exploding star (which they seem to have found out after 1st issue because in the 1st issue they confuse red giant with a super nova!).

By: Locutus

Locutus — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:08:40 +0000

I read the first two issues and i must say I was disappointed. As Don Farnsworth pointed out, much of the dialogue seems to be out of character. The Romulans are acting overly agressive for no reason, the only solution they can think of is to start an open war to Vulcan. I would expect more devious plans from them.
On the other hand, the Vulcans are much too stubborn and hostile against their “enemy”. Their actions are illogical. When they are welcoming Spock, I almost thought they were planning on arresting him for some reason, with all those armed guards which are later called by Picard as “dogs”. Picard, telling a Vulcan to “call off his dogs”?
The Romulans’ inability to determine the size of the threat, the Vulcans’ inability to understand the size of the threat, the Federation’s inability to convince Vulcans… I don’t get it. They are all watching as a great danger is threatining the universe…
In short, the story of the comicbook is one that does not make a great sense. I hope the final two issues will be better, and I really hope this is not a bad sign for the movie’s story…

By: Sean4000

Sean4000 — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:33:39 +0000

#110,

I can sleep at night now knowing that bit of information.

*****exhales after 7 long years******

Sean

By: Unbel1ever

Unbel1ever — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:21:55 +0000

#116

I guess “to be continued”. The way I see it, one of three possibilites:

a)
the planet is Romulus and Nero cries, because he thinks he’s failed is wife

b)
the planet it not Romulus, but another populated planet and Nero mourns the victims of the planet

c)
Nero is a whimp, who cries because a rock that said “Romulan” was blown up

By: Jordan

Jordan — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:30:07 +0000

What was the planet at the end of the comic?!

By: Unbel1ever

Unbel1ever — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:14:59 +0000

The problem is, the story doesn’t make sense. First of all, how would Spock and only Spock of all people on Romulus see the danger of the nova ? Why would the Vulcan High Command (should be High Council) refuse something that is endorsed by the ambassador of the Federation since the “high command” would have to yield to the judgement of the Federation Council ? Even if there were security concerns, the operation could be carried out by the Enterprise without major Romulan involvement. Besides since when does the Federation value the potential threat of Romulans gaining knowledge of a “potential weapon” higher than helping prevent the destruction of an entire race and in the process gaining a chance for peace with the Romulans by helping them ?
The Vulcans are once again the Romulcans from Enterprise.

After having read what else is supposed to happen in the timeline to 2409 by the ST online guys, which seems to follow the events of the comics, I would say, this is not the prime timeline after all, but the would be timeline of “All good things”.

By: weerd1

weerd1 — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:57:55 +0000

I’m a little confused as to why the Vulcans have a “Praetor” when the Enterprise arrives, and as 101 says, wasn’t the High Command disbanded 200 years earlier? Otherwise, decent issue though I find the number of obvious photo references throughout to be a little distracting.

By: nephron

nephron — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:54:43 +0000

#111:

How dare you call shananigans on the storyline. It’s been published, so it is official and therefore not stupid.

If you continue down this sacrilegious road, if you pursue heresy against canon, what’s next? Calling bull$!it on bumpy-headed people-as-aliens? The insultingly lame holographic-doctor-premise? The stupid-as-$h!t plotlines of well over HALF of ALL the episodes from EVERY series?

You keep that up, and maybe people will think it’s ok to regard Star Trek as mere consumer-product-entertainment & stop taking it so seriously, instead of holding the proper quasi-religious reverence for the CANON of Star Trek, like they should. They might even start reading real science fiction that’s truly well-thought out, like Frank Herbert, , Robert Reed, or Ken MacLeod. Exposure to stuff like that might even lead some to think that Gene Roddenberry wasn’t a genius.

BURN THE HERETIC!

Seriously, the supernova thing is stupid. Mind-numbingly, insultingly stupid, and it’s nice to see someone who maintains standards instead of swallowing EVERYTHING just because the Star Trek-brand label’s been slapped on it.

By: Closettrekker

Closettrekker — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:40:26 +0000

#111—-STXI: The Inconvenient Truth