True. And can she transform all of that to an arresting comics story? We don’t know.

Do comics do ghost writers?

I mean, there is the Marvel Method where Stan Lee would brainstorm with artists, let them go off and do the brunt of the work, and take a writing credit for filling in dialogue.

More to the point, I guess nobody has as much head canon about Dr Crusher as McFadden. She’s spent decades creating back story for character motivation where it may not have existed on the scripted page. As I understand it that’s pretty much par for the course.

I’m pretty sure IDW have “support writers” in staff to make those ideas conform to industrial narrative standards and formatting…

I sat down and rewatched “Affliction”/" Divergence" last night after this whole discussion. It is very much a not good storyline, and one that hadn’t needed two episodes if not for some poorly motivated character shifts with Trip and Malcolm.

Yeah, the racially charged complaint against the DSC design doesn’t entirely add up given the darkface makeup used in all previous versions of (white people playing) Klingons, including the TNG through ENT depictions.

Honestly? Also Gillian Anderson 🤣

Yeah, that was my thought as well. The jawline spikes are a bit much.

Whatever do you mean, this was only released 10 years after the fact (and 2 yrs after the show had run its course well beyond his involvement) 😄

And they’re still on a trek through the stars? Seems to do what it says on the tin.

Okay, that was rude and nitpicky. But I’ll bite:

Read the article. Her voice was heard on every episode, but recorded separately. So, for example, the cast of TNG never met her until she showed up for her first guest spot as Lwaxana. Sirtis relates their (or her) initial reservations:

I didn’t meet Majel until she was a guest star on our show in the episode ‘Haven,’ and we didn’t bond immediately because she was the boss’s wife, and we were all a bit nervous because as a cast; we were a little rowdy

Note the distinction I put in italics.

That was a good read, it’s nice to have both her acting peers’ as well as Rod Roddenberry’s perspectives on her. I’m not sure I’ve read more than the equivalent of her Wikipedia entry before. Polite secondhand info, that is.

I’ve always enjoyed watching Majel whenever she’s on Trek. The first Number One, Nurse Chapel, Lwaxanna… and all the while, also the voice of the Enterprise. Geez, Gene may have been the mind behind the show, but she probably embodied it more than anybody outside of the main cast(s) 🤩

So that’s what the de-con chamber in Enterprise was for. Silly me, I thought it meant decontamination.

It’s mostly bloodworm sludge anyway.

Oh please let’s not 🤣

— Hey, you know how other shows make sequels to really great, memorable episodes?

— …yeah?

— I know how we can subvert that:

Yes, but hear me out: what if you pull down your shirt at the speed of ligh?. I posit that for just a second your belly will show through it.

I’m not gonna lie, that Vulcan salute oven mitt is top of my wish list now 🤩

But more generally, I feel the same way. I’ve enoyed most of what we’ve got since 2017, warts and all. It’s many years ago that I was last excited about a Trek movie, though, especially if it meant there wasn’t any new TV series being made.

I’ve never really had any illusions about the companies behind the franchise, but current Paramount… Ugh! Of course I’ve been aware of the anti-woke campaigning, but I’d never imagined it would actually creep into management.

It’s sort of hard to imagine any future show preserving real Trek humanism if the chuds are in charge now.

Yeah, the “interesting times” part is certainly true. More drama and intrigue on the top floor than on screen makes for unsurprisingly poor TV.

That was the one that caught my eye, too. Also, probably the one best suited for my budget.

“I can live with that”.

In a post-apocalyptic hellscape because you couldn’t resist generating slop images? Yeah, that checks out.