I think it was stated to be an experimental weapon, in s7 of DS9? Maybe Starfleet was just the first organisation to get there.

I think it was stated to be an experimental weapon, in s7 of DS9? Maybe Starfleet was just the first organisation to get there.

I've not read that many of the Trek books, but Shadow, the Voyager entry in the Section 31 series, was a good read. It's a strong action adventure, interesting alien society, and the ensemble has more to do than normal in the series.

I hadn't actually identified that as being the ship - I just thought of it as background texture to make the film more 'futurey'.

I'm not much of a comic reader, so I've got no stake in this, but it sounds like a really good idea to me.

Clearly Cyrano Jones has allied with the Martians.

Are you saying you've never been double-crossed?

A few people have pointed out that he got together with Vash and the keyboard player, but did he actually get laid?

He who controls the present controls the past. He who controls the past controls the future.

The concept could actually work , if they took people who are real life 'heroes' and turn them into superheroes as part of the show.

Yeah, I'm not a fan of the idea of blaming the yes man (George Lucas could have fired him if he was that bad, so has ultimate responsibility) but any man who can say that kind of thing with a straight face has clearly lost track of how storytelling works.

I think io9's point's meant to be that it's the equivalent of incredibly revealing female costumes.

I don't think there's much chance of a Serenity 2, so a book of scripts (some adapted to prose?) and generalised ideas could be interesting.

The concept definitely has promise, but thinking about potential plots (based on the description) it looks like it'll be a series of one-off Wild West stories, where the chaacters learn tolerance and other obvious moral lessons over the course of a single episode.

In fairness, if they're oxygen breathers but want something 10 degrees warmer than Earth (or similar) this approach would make sense (morality aside).

Asimov wrote a couple of short stories essentially with that idea - though more with humanity being an experiment in a petri dish, rather than a computer program.

Yeah, it's a nice idea, but hard to even recognise the side of the hood as supposed to be ears until you look closely. Could at least of had it in vaguely skin colour.

I don't know, Tuvok, as a Vulcan, would be quite stiff, and I could buy the same from Chekov, if he was really worried about the threat they're facing.

I really hate the whole 'this is not your father's/grandfather's BLANK' marketing technique. Either it bares a resemblence to what preceded it, or it has no right using the name. Enterprise went down that route at first, and it only finally started getting good when they embraced the huge and varied history they'd…

There are logical problems with the story, but I think that's always been the case with Doctor Who, and Moffatt's stories in particular. Angels Take Manhattan plays into Terry Pratchett's idea that Dr. Who is more fantasy than science fiction, and there's going to be some scientific problems as a result. It doesn't…