The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one. -Spock. Destroying an empire to win a war is no victory. -Worf quoting Kahless The Unforgettable. The first duty of every Starfleet officer is to the truth, whether it's scientific truth, or historic truth, or personal truth. It is the guiding principle on which Starfleet is based. -Jean-Luc Picard. You will have nothing! ...Except my honor. -Gowron and Worf. In this galaxy, there's a mathematical probability of three million Earth-type planets. And in all of the universe, three million million galaxies like this. And in all of that, and perhaps more, only one of each of us. Don't destroy the one named Kirk. -Leonard McCoy. If anyone else has any quotes I'd like to hear them. I admit to having looked some mine up because I couldn't remember precisely how they went.
"You're a Starfleet captain. You believe in service, sacrifice, compassion; in love." - Christopher Pike "No. I'm not going to abandon the things that made me what I am because of a future...that contains an ending I hadn't foreseen for myself. No." - Also Christopher Pike
18:15 The worst thing about that is that I can figure out a better version of this scene right now; when the intruder says the doctor can't hurt him because of the whole Hippocratic oath thing, the doctor says that whilst that is true, he also has the authority to forcibly sedate a patient if they are suffering from a condition such as schizophrenia which is causing them to display violent behaviour which the intruder is clearly suffering from right before the doctor sneaks behind on the dude and knocks him out with a hypospray
Although honestly the quick removal of oxygen did the same thing and didnt harm him any further...plus if hegoes intangible to avoid being shit how could he carry a hypospray over
Playing Devil's Advocate for the comic 1) Even if Denobleans live long, it might be too much of a stretch that TWO super old doctors are both still around and able to help, especially since as far as I can tell Phlox is about 100 years older than McCoy. 2) True we don't get much character stuff, but they wouldn't be very good doctors of in the midst of a medical emergency they were chatting about their personal lives.
Hmm... Doctor Pulaski was thrown into distant past by Weeping Angels and died before Pickard was even born, thus making second season of TNG bit more bearable. God bless you, you wonderful murdering statues.
Doctors can sedate unruly patients who are a danger to themselves and others. Also, being sentient sometimes includes being able to re-write your programming and remove safeguards.
To be fair, you could easily twist anything to fit the rather loose guidelines of the Hippocratic Oath when you consider that "do no harm" means that you can't really DO anything if taken literally. Anti-viruses are often made of weaker strains, not to mention the physical harm done during surgery. It's the rejection of doing harm for harm's sake, and even then combat medics have to harm or kill others in the process of saving the lives of themselves and their patients. Just off the top of my head, the Doctor could easily justify the venting as a means of quarantine. As you said we don't know how (or even IF) the mercenary was immune, and if he was an active carrier then allowing him to infect any more of the ship or going beyond their station would be a greater breach of that oath.
As for the Hippocratic Oath thing at 18:08 or so, I guess if you're thinking logically, it IS a bit of a loophole that technically he ISN'T harming the guy, the shuttle bay being vented is what is harming him, but then again we could get into another Shrodinger's Cat level of arguments about whether he is still causing harm because he pressed the button here.
I always took Bones' attitude towards Spock's race as a deliberate attempt to provoke him, to get an emotional response out of him. Not so much being against Spock's race but being frustrated by the different level on which Spock functions (not necessarily better, just different). It seemed like a more extreme version of Kirk's friendly teasing, and often came from McCoy's deeply passionate personality. I mean, it's technically stillracism or xenophobia, but rooted in a lack of understanding. Which is weird, since it takes place hundreds of years after we started to learn about an accept neuroatypical individuals. Unless that's one of the things the future "fixed."
I do have a problem with the cover that I am surprised you didn't mention: the uniforms. Beverly, Bashir, and the Doctor are all wearing the First Contact-style uniforms (which remains my personal favorite with the Wrath of Khan uniforms at second favorite). That's fine considering the time frame of the comic. The problem is the coloration of Bashir's and the Doctor's uniforms. They are colored as if they were the early DS9/Voyager uniforms, both of which were commonly worn by the characters (with the Doctor wearing it throughout Voyager).
Honestly I wouldn't be suprised if the Doctor could just shut down the subroutine containing the oath. Heck in one episode we see what happens if his morality is shut down
Something sorta cute in regards to anniversaries, this episode came right between two major tokusatsu anniversaries. One day after the 45th anniversary of Kamen Rider, and one day before the 40th anniversary of Super Sentai.
0:59 Or misquote in the case of McCoy's "Dammit Jim" and "I'm a doctor, not a miracle worker" in the same sentence just as people do with Sherlock's "Elementary" and "My dear Watson".
not only have I seen every episode of UFO, but I also know that what became Space 1999 was originally going to be the third and forth seasons of UFO ;)
The Doctor Who one seems more likely, given this deals with the Six Doctors. ...before I clicked on the review, I wondered if it was a crossover and we'd get the EMH vs the Weeping Angels. >.>
Wow, you watched Enterprise until 'Dear Doctor'? I quit after 'The Andorian Incident' where Archer ratted out Vulcan, earth's allies, to their enemies because "spying is wrong." Garak was probably my second favorite character from DS9 and I wish he could have been around to give Archer his speech from "In the Pale Moonlite".
+wdcain1 Oh, I watched until the end of the show - it's just Phlox stopped being my favorite character at that point. The series DOES get better at seasons 3/4, but man-oh-man did they have sticks up their asses for the first two seasons.
Linkara-AtopTheFourthWall At least I know which seasons to get on DVD. Honestly, when the show first premiered, I was really taken aback by how mean spirited/racist most of the cast was. I actually thought this was the evil Mirror universe and when they mentioned the Temporal Cold War, I actually thought what would happen was that it would turn out that the Mirror Universe wasn't an evil alternate dimension but a corrupted timeline due to tempering with the past and making Earth more militarized/pirate'y.
***** Enterprise's problem wasn't a prequel. It's problem was that its characters were basically smug idiots who thought they were better than they actually were and until season 4, the show didn't really show any of the events leading to the Federation, content to just show these twits flying through space. At least.George Lucas had the common sense to focus on the important historical stuff in the Star Wars Prequels (mostly).
Markus Criticus Why Garak was my second favorite character? He's sly, cunning, manipulative, yet incredibly patriotic and even had a heart for family and even had a sweet crush on Tora Ziyal. While he lies constantly, there is an almost Loki-like earnest to how smooth he plays things. This helps him find success in most of his plots. This spymaster is awesome!
Wow. I really love the star trek based opening. It makes me feel like I'm watching a Star Trek based show staring you Linkara. (which I wouldn't mind seeing if it existed btw).
I actually got the UFO reference. I'm a big Anderson fan... speaking of which. Thunderbirds 50th was last year... wonder if we could get a review on those comics.
Well, how do i put this, navy rescue swimmer's are permitted to nearly drown someone to subdue them for retrieval. Commercial pilots once upon a time were permitted to reduce the oxygen to the passenger area to knock out a panicking or hostile individual. So the EMH depriving the perp of oxygen to knock him out is not that farfetched.
Just noticed on the re-watch, but oddly enough, the crew of the original Enterprise in the flashback? Instead of having Chekov next to Sulu, they have Lt. Arex, the three-legged alien who replaced Chekov for the Animated Series since the show was too cheap to hire Walter Koenig to voice his character. Weird. So you could argue this is a crossover of ALL six Star Trek series, animated and live action.
Dr. Pulaski shows up in a comic, and suddenly everyone's turning to stone... guess SF Debris' nickname for her; "The Gorgon" has taken on a more literal meaning?
Im not sure if I qualify "as nerdy" or "more nerdy" for this... But I knew about "UFO" because Cumberbatch's mum worked on the show... I need more hobbies...
Heh I find it fitting that Pulaski is currently stationed on the USS Repluse...I am guessing it is a ship with people witth traits starfleet find less than ideal
"UFO" and "Space: 1999", its successor, are very cool. If you like somewhat campy 1970s science fiction that is. They're not exactly "Shakespeare in Space" or anything.
Hey linkara did you know leonardo from ninja turtles is a star trek fan well a star trek copy but you get the idea and Donatello in the first tmnt movie was played by leonard nimoy which fits
I really like the fact that the doctor is always one of the main characters on star trek. It works nicely with the idea that all the STEM fields are deeply respected in the federation. That being said I do think it also has a lot to do with McCoy being part of the TOS trinity. As a side note I would rank my favourite doctors as 1. McCoy 2. EMH 3. Crusher 4. Bashir 5. Phlox 6. Pulaski I kinda think Bashir is more interesting than Crusher but I just have a lingering fondness for Crusher as TNG was a bigger part of my adolescence. I also gave up on Enterprise after the first season so can't judge Phlox that well. He seemed OK i just don't have much to say about him. Robert Picardo as the doctor (EMH) is probably my favourite part of Voyager. I think it was his performance that kept me watching. He is a very close second on my list.
I must now prove my nerdiness! The EMH proved he was capable of ignoring his programming when he purposely infected a rich bureaucrat of an alien hospital with a potentially fatal virus and told the man either he approve everyone for the cure or he will let the man die. It was one of his best episodes which showed the EMH is a real person capable of making morally gray decisions for "the greater good" Also with the sheer number of holograms that became sentient it was clear the Federation accidentally created a legitimate race of people. I like the theory that any program that is created to solve problems will inevitably become sentient if it gathers enough data. Star Trek seems to agree with this with all the episodes they have of machines becoming sentient and then having someone fight for that AIs rights... Although the characters never make the direct connection that all programs that are designed to solve problems could become real people and that they have effectively based their entire society off slavery. I like Mass Effect's interpretation of VIs. Programs not actually designed to solve problems on their own, preventing the program from actually thinking and becoming sentient. Programs like that need constant maintenance and someone to watch over them but they also are just machines with no risk of becoming a person. Therefore no slave army of AIs
Granted I only know Pulaski from SF Debris' reviews (where he calls her "The Gargoyle"), but in this comic she seems just as condescending and rude to Androids/Holograms as she was in the show. So I say shoving her in the back on the cover was the right move!
As far as the EMH actions, his main priority would the well being of his patients. So he would neutralize any threats to them, like blowing everything up.
You know, when I first watched this episode, I haven't watch SFDebris and didn't know anything about Enterprise, so I thought that Dr. Phlox was a character that Linkara liked for a few seasons before a bad episode in season 3 ruined the character for him. Imagine my surprise when I found out that "Dear Doctor" was the thirteenth episode of season 1! The fact that Linkara kept watching a season and a half of television of a bad show with characters he hated really says something about his mental fortitude. I couldn't do it.
I get it now. The guy says the Doctor can’t *kill* him, which is what Doc agrees with. Never said anything about subduing him. Plus he’s not a patient, the oath does not apply.
Love the (relatively) new opening Mr. Linkara! Kicks ass. Entertaining review, too. Sadly it seems like a lot of these offshoot comics or mangas of famous franchises are written by people who don't know or care about the characters.
Insurrection is one of the movies I haven't seen,. but I've seen all of the pre-kelvin movies, up through the one that passes the torch to TNG. Where Kirk and Picard are hanging out in space heaven. It sounds like a movie that I'D HATE WITH A PASSION!
2:54 I'm tempted to make a joke about the Dalish from the Dragon Age series, but that might be a little mean spirited, so I won't. (Once having High tech civilizations, nigh immortal people, and great arcane power was relatively common then. BUT, the people in charge let the power go to their heads, and one of their own thought they should seal them away for the good for their kind. ...It did not end well.)
Wait, is that supposed advocation of genocide that Phlox the bit where he advocated not helping a species that had basically reached an evolutionary dead end by everyone being born with a degenerative condition?
I'm imagining that in the future Diamanda Hagan creates a space program in Haganistan and leaves earth to colonize an empty planet to become the new Eve and Eve with Omega.
So, just being clear 1986- Voyage Home. 2060s- First Contact. Late 21st/Early 22nd century- Enterprise. 100 years later (Discovery maybe)- Original series. Give that a decade- other movies. 24th century- TNG. Concurrently to that the movies are happening. Then DS9-Voyager during that.
UFO! ohhh so that's where the catchy 80's song that played in pretty much every Chilean kids showfrom the 90's comes from! also 10/10 on that really cool intro i have the feeling the story would have worked better if they segmented the cast into teams so you could have more one on one interactions between the doctors rather than the whole group at once doing not much
I don't want to be "that guy", but I got to ask because with each passing week my anticipation continues to build. Are you still planning to continue the story this year, and if so when? I feel dirty asking a question about release dates like that....I think I'm in need of an extra hot shower.
+Mr.Northwind Yep! It's just the storyline is a bit more elaborate this time and involved with the writing, so I've been wanting to keep things on the downlow until I've got most of it done, though we're quickly reaching a point where that won't be feasible and I just have to do it. XD
+Linkara-AtopTheFourthWall Lewis, I would like to read some good Star Trek comics but I really don't know any and there are a ton of them. What would you say are the best or could you make a Top 10 video listing them?
I have a question regarding the next review: When you look at Blackest Night, will you be looking at the core mini-series and the tie-ins, or just the core mini-series?
+Samuel Johnson Just the core mini-series. It's already a bit of a stretch for Patreon to review more than a single comic issue, but trying to review the ENTIRE event when I just finished up Blue-Skying? Yeah, that ain't happening. XD
I thought the overview was pretty cool, myself. Probably not what i would have had Linkara review if I had the money to be a Patron but still, entertaining.
Awesome title sequence, great review. We all hate Insurrection mate. As to why they didn't contact the Federation, they're just stupid I guess. Reminds me of when they couldn't identify that water alcohol thing when TNG experienced it in identical circumstances to when OS did.
If it was science fiction and before the 90s, more than likely I watched it as a kid. Everything from UFO to Space:1999. The Starlost to Quark. Blakes 7 to The Tripods. The Man From Atlantis to Starman. Otherworld to The Land of the Lost. But yeah, if you held me at gunpoint, I couldn't give you a quote from The Starlost either.
I liked the comic anyway, and I haven't in single, and it's included in my trade of Star Trek Volume 11. I do agree that Bashir and Crusher get the shaft, and the character interaction isn't the best, but I still enjoyed the story and let it inspire me with two additional ideas for fan-fics.
This thing is great for fan fic because it's such a good premise that could go so many ways and that would be even better if it was a longer story than this, so that you could make it long enough to have all of the characters shine.
18:15 - To quote Dr. Phlox: _"It's unethical to harm a patient; I can inflict as much pain as I like. :-)"_
The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one.
-Spock.
Destroying an empire to win a war is no victory.
-Worf quoting Kahless The Unforgettable.
The first duty of every Starfleet officer is to the truth, whether it's scientific truth, or historic truth, or personal truth. It is the guiding principle on which Starfleet is based.
-Jean-Luc Picard.
You will have nothing! ...Except my honor.
-Gowron and Worf.
In this galaxy, there's a mathematical probability of three million Earth-type planets. And in all of the universe, three million million galaxies like this. And in all of that, and perhaps more, only one of each of us. Don't destroy the one named Kirk.
-Leonard McCoy.
If anyone else has any quotes I'd like to hear them. I admit to having looked some mine up because I couldn't remember precisely how they went.
+1987MartinT No Kill I
-The Horta
"You're a Starfleet captain. You believe in service, sacrifice, compassion; in love." - Christopher Pike
"No. I'm not going to abandon the things that made me what I am because of a future...that contains an ending I hadn't foreseen for myself. No." - Also Christopher Pike
18:15 The worst thing about that is that I can figure out a better version of this scene right now; when the intruder says the doctor can't hurt him because of the whole Hippocratic oath thing, the doctor says that whilst that is true, he also has the authority to forcibly sedate a patient if they are suffering from a condition such as schizophrenia which is causing them to display violent behaviour which the intruder is clearly suffering from right before the doctor sneaks behind on the dude and knocks him out with a hypospray
Although honestly the quick removal of oxygen did the same thing and didnt harm him any further...plus if hegoes intangible to avoid being shit how could he carry a hypospray over
Playing Devil's Advocate for the comic
1) Even if Denobleans live long, it might be too much of a stretch that TWO super old doctors are both still around and able to help, especially since as far as I can tell Phlox is about 100 years older than McCoy.
2) True we don't get much character stuff, but they wouldn't be very good doctors of in the midst of a medical emergency they were chatting about their personal lives.
idea: Q gets sick from some transuniversal quantum virus and summons every doctor ever (in star trek) to find a cure.
Yes
I feel like using Q is too easy when coming up with ideas for stuff like this
During the opening credits for this episode, I was just happily shouting "Star Trek style intro!" in the dorkiest tone possible.
Hmm... Doctor Pulaski was thrown into distant past by Weeping Angels and died before Pickard was even born, thus making second season of TNG bit more bearable. God bless you, you wonderful murdering statues.
@@djross2000 But faked her death and went to help out Batman
Doctors can sedate unruly patients who are a danger to themselves and others. Also, being sentient sometimes includes being able to re-write your programming and remove safeguards.
To be fair, you could easily twist anything to fit the rather loose guidelines of the Hippocratic Oath when you consider that "do no harm" means that you can't really DO anything if taken literally. Anti-viruses are often made of weaker strains, not to mention the physical harm done during surgery. It's the rejection of doing harm for harm's sake, and even then combat medics have to harm or kill others in the process of saving the lives of themselves and their patients.
Just off the top of my head, the Doctor could easily justify the venting as a means of quarantine. As you said we don't know how (or even IF) the mercenary was immune, and if he was an active carrier then allowing him to infect any more of the ship or going beyond their station would be a greater breach of that oath.
To quote "Spaced" in a way: "Star Trek Insurrection was some years ago." - "But it still hurts!" ;-)
Before anything else, I live the new Star-tresque opening for these reviews. Thumbs Up!
Man typos are a bitch aren't they Buddy.
6:12 "Calling Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard"
Pilasky being made a second McCoy? The fools! You can only ever accept the REAL McCoy!
As for the Hippocratic Oath thing at 18:08 or so, I guess if you're thinking logically, it IS a bit of a loophole that technically he ISN'T harming the guy, the shuttle bay being vented is what is harming him, but then again we could get into another Shrodinger's Cat level of arguments about whether he is still causing harm because he pressed the button here.
I always took Bones' attitude towards Spock's race as a deliberate attempt to provoke him, to get an emotional response out of him. Not so much being against Spock's race but being frustrated by the different level on which Spock functions (not necessarily better, just different). It seemed like a more extreme version of Kirk's friendly teasing, and often came from McCoy's deeply passionate personality. I mean, it's technically stillracism or xenophobia, but rooted in a lack of understanding. Which is weird, since it takes place hundreds of years after we started to learn about an accept neuroatypical individuals. Unless that's one of the things the future "fixed."
I do have a problem with the cover that I am surprised you didn't mention: the uniforms. Beverly, Bashir, and the Doctor are all wearing the First Contact-style uniforms (which remains my personal favorite with the Wrath of Khan uniforms at second favorite). That's fine considering the time frame of the comic. The problem is the coloration of Bashir's and the Doctor's uniforms. They are colored as if they were the early DS9/Voyager uniforms, both of which were commonly worn by the characters (with the Doctor wearing it throughout Voyager).
+Vader the White I'm guessing it was just a stylistic choice to help make them distinct from her front and center.
+Vader the White Could be its after the idea of a uniform uniform goes out the window. re. Star Trek Online.
Sunny Lovett Or like Generations.
Honestly I wouldn't be suprised if the Doctor could just shut down the subroutine containing the oath. Heck in one episode we see what happens if his morality is shut down
Oh man, I knew UFO. What does that say about me! >_
+Rerez Means you're cool. Like me, I've got some of UFO on DVD :D
Seriously though, it's a pretty great show
"All decontamination protocols"="Please, don't lick foreign objects TOO much"
Something sorta cute in regards to anniversaries, this episode came right between two major tokusatsu anniversaries. One day after the 45th anniversary of Kamen Rider, and one day before the 40th anniversary of Super Sentai.
0:59 Or misquote in the case of McCoy's "Dammit Jim" and "I'm a doctor, not a miracle worker" in the same sentence just as people do with Sherlock's "Elementary" and "My dear Watson".
not only have I seen every episode of UFO, but I also know that what became Space 1999 was originally going to be the third and forth seasons of UFO ;)
The title is "Flesh and Stone" and Linkara didn't even make a Doctor Who joke?
Or a Star Ocean joke?
(okay that might have been too obscure)
The Doctor Who one seems more likely, given this deals with the Six Doctors.
...before I clicked on the review, I wondered if it was a crossover and we'd get the EMH vs the Weeping Angels. >.>
Amaranth No, the title... Doctor Who had an episode by the same name in recent years.
T2266 Yes, the title. The reason I said I was confused before I clicked on the video. And referenced the Weeping Angels.
Amaranth
Sorry didn't notice the "read more"
It’s 2023 and I am still eagerly awaiting your nano probes follow-up.
Wow, you watched Enterprise until 'Dear Doctor'? I quit after 'The Andorian Incident' where Archer ratted out Vulcan, earth's allies, to their enemies because "spying is wrong." Garak was probably my second favorite character from DS9 and I wish he could have been around to give Archer his speech from "In the Pale Moonlite".
+wdcain1 Oh, I watched until the end of the show - it's just Phlox stopped being my favorite character at that point. The series DOES get better at seasons 3/4, but man-oh-man did they have sticks up their asses for the first two seasons.
Linkara-AtopTheFourthWall
At least I know which seasons to get on DVD. Honestly, when the show first premiered, I was really taken aback by how mean spirited/racist most of the cast was. I actually thought this was the evil Mirror universe and when they mentioned the Temporal Cold War, I actually thought what would happen was that it would turn out that the Mirror Universe wasn't an evil alternate dimension but a corrupted timeline due to tempering with the past and making Earth more militarized/pirate'y.
*****
Enterprise's problem wasn't a prequel. It's problem was that its characters were basically smug idiots who thought they were better than they actually were and until season 4, the show didn't really show any of the events leading to the Federation, content to just show these twits flying through space.
At least.George Lucas had the common sense to focus on the important historical stuff in the Star Wars Prequels (mostly).
Why?
Markus Criticus
Why Garak was my second favorite character? He's sly, cunning, manipulative, yet incredibly patriotic and even had a heart for family and even had a sweet crush on Tora Ziyal. While he lies constantly, there is an almost Loki-like earnest to how smooth he plays things. This helps him find success in most of his plots. This spymaster is awesome!
Wow. I really love the star trek based opening. It makes me feel like I'm watching a Star Trek based show staring you Linkara. (which I wouldn't mind seeing if it existed btw).
The pose you make in the title card looks familiar....
HOLY CRAP I THINK HE WAS REFERENCING GRAVITY FALLS!
I friggin love your title card artist dude.
I actually got the UFO reference. I'm a big Anderson fan... speaking of which. Thunderbirds 50th was last year... wonder if we could get a review on those comics.
Well, how do i put this, navy rescue swimmer's are permitted to nearly drown someone to subdue them for retrieval. Commercial pilots once upon a time were permitted to reduce the oxygen to the passenger area to knock out a panicking or hostile individual. So the EMH depriving the perp of oxygen to knock him out is not that farfetched.
Is... is the title card a Gravity Falls reference?
+Jenifer Joseph Yes...yes it is. Tis the last form Dipper will ever take....
Good avatar, my Lord!
Oh shut up!
I was hoping you'd say "COURSE IT'S A GOOD AVATAR!" but that works too. XD
5:33 Damnit, Lewis! You almost made me choke on my lunch! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA wasn't expecting that! Good on you, dude!
5:38, hay, i didnt know Sinestro was in star trek. Probably got stuck there after the crossover.
Seeing the Trek themed opening and remembering how the 50th anniversary celebration ended, I think it is fair to say RIP Comicron-1
Just noticed on the re-watch, but oddly enough, the crew of the original Enterprise in the flashback? Instead of having Chekov next to Sulu, they have Lt. Arex, the three-legged alien who replaced Chekov for the Animated Series since the show was too cheap to hire Walter Koenig to voice his character. Weird. So you could argue this is a crossover of ALL six Star Trek series, animated and live action.
Dr. Pulaski shows up in a comic, and suddenly everyone's turning to stone... guess SF Debris' nickname for her; "The Gorgon" has taken on a more literal meaning?
>"Grayer than a homestuck cosplayer"
Anyone got a burn heal? They'll need it.
11:06 Data is different from a holodeck character, which is what most will think of when seeing the EMH.
3:18 - I see Pulaski on the cover. I assume this to be the crux of every problem that will follow throughout the rest of the review.
Im not sure if I qualify "as nerdy" or "more nerdy" for this...
But I knew about "UFO" because Cumberbatch's mum worked on the show... I need more hobbies...
0:51 - “I did!
I understood that reference.”
A surprising amount of people understood it. XD
Damn. Dr. Crusher is lookin mighty fine here.
The other characters look pretty accurate too. Good job- err...artist of this comic.
Heh I find it fitting that Pulaski is currently stationed on the USS Repluse...I am guessing it is a ship with people witth traits starfleet find less than ideal
"UFO" and "Space: 1999", its successor, are very cool. If you like somewhat campy 1970s science fiction that is. They're not exactly "Shakespeare in Space" or anything.
The funny thing is Dr Pulaski was the third time she played a Doctor on Star TRek (she was 2 different docs on the orginal series)
Since you did an awesome "Star Trek opening" I was expeting a "Star Trek ending" with the starry background and the page-by-page credits :).
Thanks for the link because the video on your page kept freezing.
Oddly it was the only video that did that O_o
Are you kidding? XD I loved UFO. It was so bizarre!
i knew about UFO before you mentioned it lol ... although I've only seen the first episode
Hey linkara did you know leonardo from ninja turtles is a star trek fan well a star trek copy but you get the idea and Donatello in the first tmnt movie was played by leonard nimoy which fits
LOVING the opening credits!
I really like the fact that the doctor is always one of the main characters on star trek. It works nicely with the idea that all the STEM fields are deeply respected in the federation.
That being said I do think it also has a lot to do with McCoy being part of the TOS trinity.
As a side note I would rank my favourite doctors as
1. McCoy
2. EMH
3. Crusher
4. Bashir
5. Phlox
6. Pulaski
I kinda think Bashir is more interesting than Crusher but I just have a lingering fondness for Crusher as TNG was a bigger part of my adolescence.
I also gave up on Enterprise after the first season so can't judge Phlox that well. He seemed OK i just don't have much to say about him.
Robert Picardo as the doctor (EMH) is probably my favourite part of Voyager. I think it was his performance that kept me watching. He is a very close second on my list.
I must now prove my nerdiness!
The EMH proved he was capable of ignoring his programming when he purposely infected a rich bureaucrat of an alien hospital with a potentially fatal virus and told the man either he approve everyone for the cure or he will let the man die.
It was one of his best episodes which showed the EMH is a real person capable of making morally gray decisions for "the greater good"
Also with the sheer number of holograms that became sentient it was clear the Federation accidentally created a legitimate race of people.
I like the theory that any program that is created to solve problems will inevitably become sentient if it gathers enough data. Star Trek seems to agree with this with all the episodes they have of machines becoming sentient and then having someone fight for that AIs rights... Although the characters never make the direct connection that all programs that are designed to solve problems could become real people and that they have effectively based their entire society off slavery.
I like Mass Effect's interpretation of VIs. Programs not actually designed to solve problems on their own, preventing the program from actually thinking and becoming sentient. Programs like that need constant maintenance and someone to watch over them but they also are just machines with no risk of becoming a person. Therefore no slave army of AIs
its 2018 who won that contest?
Granted I only know Pulaski from SF Debris' reviews (where he calls her "The Gargoyle"), but in this comic she seems just as condescending and rude to Androids/Holograms as she was in the show. So I say shoving her in the back on the cover was the right move!
As far as the EMH actions, his main priority would the well being of his patients. So he would neutralize any threats to them, like blowing everything up.
@2:56, oh thank god, I thought he was bad mouthing the jedi
You know, when I first watched this episode, I haven't watch SFDebris and didn't know anything about Enterprise, so I thought that Dr. Phlox was a character that Linkara liked for a few seasons before a bad episode in season 3 ruined the character for him. Imagine my surprise when I found out that "Dear Doctor" was the thirteenth episode of season 1! The fact that Linkara kept watching a season and a half of television of a bad show with characters he hated really says something about his mental fortitude. I couldn't do it.
i love U.F.O. , Space 1999, and Spacepatrol Orion, i'm a sucker sor those old stuff :D
That title card makes me think of a crossover between Star Trek and Doctor Stone.
21:40 1000G satellites must have terrible reception.
Please tell me that title card song for next week is "Again we Rise!" by Lamb of God. If not, it totally should be.
This Comic is AWESOME!!
I don't need everyone doin' important stuff, i only need 'em to be there!
8/10 for me!
Why is the Doctor still in his Voyager uniform in some shots? His uniform sometimes seems to be Blue.
I get it now. The guy says the Doctor can’t *kill* him, which is what Doc agrees with. Never said anything about subduing him. Plus he’s not a patient, the oath does not apply.
5:28 HAIL HAGAN!
6:14 OH HELLO BRUCE. HOW YA DOING BRUCE? I'M FINE BRUCE.HEY BRUCE. WHAT BRUCE? WHERE'S BRUCE?
13:59 WHAT AN ASSHOLE!
2000AD is about to celebrate it's 2000th issue. I was just wondering if you had any plans to cover that in some form? :)
Was that opening animation a slight homage to B5?
It might just be the style of CG but man did it remind me of that.
Love the (relatively) new opening Mr. Linkara! Kicks ass. Entertaining review, too. Sadly it seems like a lot of these offshoot comics or mangas of famous franchises are written by people who don't know or care about the characters.
what video has him making a joke about space being the final frontier until alternate dimensions ?
i wonder if Linkara can quote something from "Raumpatrouille"
Insurrection is one of the movies I haven't seen,. but I've seen all of the pre-kelvin movies, up through the one that passes the torch to TNG. Where Kirk and Picard are hanging out in space heaven.
It sounds like a movie that I'D HATE WITH A PASSION!
I've heard of UFO, but never seen an episode. I don't think it was as popular as Space: 1999 or Blake's 7.
2:54 I'm tempted to make a joke about the Dalish from the Dragon Age series, but that might be a little mean spirited, so I won't. (Once having High tech civilizations, nigh immortal people, and great arcane power was relatively common then. BUT, the people in charge let the power go to their heads, and one of their own thought they should seal them away for the good for their kind. ...It did not end well.)
Will you do the Star Trek - Doctor Who crossover comic? I stumbled upon it and kind of liked it.
Wait, is that supposed advocation of genocide that Phlox the bit where he advocated not helping a species that had basically reached an evolutionary dead end by everyone being born with a degenerative condition?
And now I know what inspired the Big O's second intro theme.
I'm imagining that in the future Diamanda Hagan creates a space program in Haganistan and leaves earth to colonize an empty planet to become the new Eve and Eve with Omega.
If that’s the case wouldn’t Benzites be the worst choice for a comms officer?
Perhaps the reason the doctor could vent the shuttle bay atmosphere is because never got this ethical subroutines turned back on after equinox?
It's been a while, but I thought Pollo was the producer? Or was he the director or something?
So, just being clear 1986- Voyage Home. 2060s- First Contact. Late 21st/Early 22nd century- Enterprise. 100 years later (Discovery maybe)- Original series. Give that a decade- other movies. 24th century- TNG. Concurrently to that the movies are happening. Then DS9-Voyager during that.
UFO! ohhh so that's where the catchy 80's song that played in pretty much every Chilean kids showfrom the 90's comes from! also 10/10 on that really cool intro
i have the feeling the story would have worked better if they segmented the cast into teams so you could have more one on one interactions between the doctors rather than the whole group at once doing not much
11:00 more or less she instead learned Data was one of the "good ones".
Skydiver launching! So no, you can't get away with a UFO clip and have nobody know what you're talking about :P
I'm most likely the only one who thinks of the Game Boy Advanced SP when I see a Tricorder.
So is the new opening going to be just for this years' Star Trek reviews or will you be using it for all future Star Trek reviews as well?
+Athavan Rajasingham Might as well use it for all Star Trek reviews going forward, but definitely for this year's Trek reviews, at least. ^_^
9:03 It's Ensign Zoosmell Pooplord.
(sees title card) It's the last form Linkara will ever take.
I don't want to be "that guy", but I got to ask because with each passing week my anticipation continues to build. Are you still planning to continue the story this year, and if so when?
I feel dirty asking a question about release dates like that....I think I'm in need of an extra hot shower.
+Mr.Northwind Yep! It's just the storyline is a bit more elaborate this time and involved with the writing, so I've been wanting to keep things on the downlow until I've got most of it done, though we're quickly reaching a point where that won't be feasible and I just have to do it. XD
+Linkara-AtopTheFourthWall Lewis, I would like to read some good Star Trek comics but I really don't know any and there are a ton of them. What would you say are the best or could you make a Top 10 video listing them?
Blackest Night is next week... FUCK YES!!!!
I have a question regarding the next review: When you look at Blackest Night, will you be looking at the core mini-series and the tie-ins, or just the core mini-series?
+Samuel Johnson Just the core mini-series. It's already a bit of a stretch for Patreon to review more than a single comic issue, but trying to review the ENTIRE event when I just finished up Blue-Skying? Yeah, that ain't happening. XD
+Linkara-AtopTheFourthWall Oh thank goodness! Just wanted to be sure. Thanks for letting me know, and can't wait for the review.
+Linkara-AtopTheFourthWall Why would this patron want blackest night reviewed anyway? Just asking.
Are you going to cover the Captain Scarlet manga, or any of the Thunderbirds comics?
I thought the overview was pretty cool, myself. Probably not what i would have had Linkara review if I had the money to be a Patron but still, entertaining.
holodoc is named Joe. in case anyone was curious.
Wanderingsage7 In a timeline that, thanks to the actions of Admiral Janeway, never happened.
Holy crap, NOW I get why she went back!
"Dear Doctor"? I know of no such episode. Are you referring to that anti-Federation propoganda piece?
Not done until 2017... 2017!!! NEXT YEAR! AAAHHH TRICORDERS IN 2017!!!
Awesome title sequence, great review.
We all hate Insurrection mate.
As to why they didn't contact the Federation, they're just stupid I guess. Reminds me of when they couldn't identify that water alcohol thing when TNG experienced it in identical circumstances to when OS did.
If it was science fiction and before the 90s, more than likely I watched it as a kid. Everything from UFO to Space:1999. The Starlost to Quark. Blakes 7 to The Tripods. The Man From Atlantis to Starman. Otherworld to The Land of the Lost.
But yeah, if you held me at gunpoint, I couldn't give you a quote from The Starlost either.
J
So is this new opening going to be saved for all future Star Trek reviews?
I liked the comic anyway, and I haven't in single, and it's included in my trade of Star Trek Volume 11. I do agree that Bashir and Crusher get the shaft, and the character interaction isn't the best, but I still enjoyed the story and let it inspire me with two additional ideas for fan-fics.
This thing is great for fan fic because it's such a good premise that could go so many ways and that would be even better if it was a longer story than this, so that you could make it long enough to have all of the characters shine.
5:35 I understood that reference!
Should I be worried that Comicron 1 is shooting something near our orbit? Also, I don't remember you having a shuttle. Is that new?
+Takisan111 That's the Vigilant. It's been mentioned several times on the show and was featured in the movie. XD
I loved UFO. :L Especially the theme song!