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Well, maybe William Ware Theiss would approve!
For crying out loud it looks terrible though! That's one heck of an abomination! If it was an alien race, yes that would be possible, but that...that...please...looks like it was dreamed up by a 10-year old!
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I think that's the point - they were probably hired to draw the comic while the show was still in pre-production. They had no idea what the look or feel of the show would be, save for whatever Roddenberry told them in the writer's bible. Remember, initially in TNG we were a lot happier, looser, and definitely NOT MILITARY. So, inasmuch as TMP gave us a million pointless variations of the pyjama uniforms...
I'm not going to bother scanning in the other uniform variations. Security guys wore Battlestar Galactica helmets without the chinpieces, away teams wore thighstrap utility belts, Picard's formal uniform was green with gold tassles... Ugh.
And above it all, everyone was CONSTANTLY making the worst superhero poses regardless of what they're doing. Walking, popping out of a turbolift, sitting in front of the mirror. At one point Riker was getting beamed up unexpectedly, and he's practically doing the splits with his arms outflung. I kid you not.
Not Trek's proudest decision in outsourcing, I must say.
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Now someone's going to consider that a viable variant, call it the "Discovery" and start a thread on it....
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quote:Originally posted by Mark Nguyen: Remember, initially in TNG we were a lot happier, looser, and definitely NOT MILITARY.
And that means we have to dress like 1970's superheroes?
Can you imagine that guy in the shorts and cowboy boots going up against, well, any situation and being taken seriously?
Again... I blame the art director that ok'd this. He should have never even let it go to Paramount or whoever they had to clear it through to get the go-ahead.
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I agree with Aban- this is hackery at it's worst: any art director worth shit would have stopped this from happening...
Saying "It's from the 80's" is no excuse- plenty of great sci-fi comics were around then (moreso than now to be sure) and did resort to capes, tights and poses from "How to draw comics the Marvel way".
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Well, in the TMP era, security guards DID wear helmets and body armor, which would make a great deal of sense, IMHO. That's actually not a bad idea. I bet they'd do it again after the Dominion War.
Yeah, I do wonder if it did fall into the "comics are for kids" thing.
Well, Mark, I'm starting to believe all of what you say about that craziness of these early TNG comics. Not to mention the scene you posted up makes me wanna PUKE!!
I wonder if this was one of Theiss's ideas, but got shot down by the production.
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Really, it looks like the panels were intended for something else and the TNG elements were added on after. The panels are disturbingly generic to the point where a "Trek-Com" thread could be started....
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