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Since I did the Cait drawings for the TAS comic, I'll tell you what I know. The non-Enterprise characters came from the USS Exeter fan film, so the comic served to fill in some background details for the live action version, of which only one episode has appeared so far. But, I agree, that smell thing was kind of weird.Here's the actress:
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quote:Originally posted by Aban Rune: Agreed. She's actually kinda hot. The uniform really does it for me. Needs to be fit a little better though.
I have a feeling this thread is about to take an odd turn...
She needs the TOS push-up bra or the TOS cone-bra.
Something.....she's no ensign Watley.
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I, for one would love to see a Trek manga series. As one who's been reading manga for a while, I can tell you from experience that manga comics are no more alike than American comics. If anything, they are actually far more diverse than American comics.
I happen to own a copy of Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud (autographed by him, no less!) It is an excellent book on the untapped potential of the comic art form. I think that a Trek manga anthology properly done would be a real boost to Trek.
The problem is that in this country, comics have been very much marginalized as "kid's fare"; while a number of comics have been able to present mature themes and stories (like Alan Moore's "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen"...trust me folks, the movie is only a pale imitation of the comic..if they had done a true adaptation, it would have been rated NC-17 easy.) most American comics are still stuck in the superhero genre.
In Japan, by contrast, manga is much more a mainstream thing; comics in Japan cover a whole range of diverse genres and art styles. While most of us are familiar with the "big eye" style of art as drawn by, for example, Rumiko Takahashi (Ranma 1/2) there are also a number of other art styles in manga too.
One problem that Trek and other licensed properties that were done as comics have had has been that the comic companies owning the license usually put second string artists and writers to doing those adaptations. A notable example was with the "Star Wars" special edition movies that were released a while back; Dark Horse comics did both American comics and adaptions of Japanese manga of the movies. The contrast was noticable; while the "good guys" looked cute in the manga, the action was much more dynamic and the space battles much more exciting than in the American comics. The Death Star, in particular, looked downright terrifying in the manga; you never got that sense of the battle station's sheer size and power in the american comics.
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True. That shot of it with hundreds of Star Destroyers flying around it may have stretched believability a bit, but it did look cool.
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