Star Trek #30

[superfangirl1]

I do love stories that show alternate and parallel universes. :)

Comments

[q99]

Yeeeees :)

[icon_uk]

This looks like fun (Slightly disappointed it based on the Abrams-ST-verse, though, I just didn't warm to that take too much)

I like Ms Scott taking Mr Scott to task for stereotyping, but it does beg the question, in a genderflipped universe would the stereotypes be flipped too?

It's also a little unfortunate that in the third scan, first panel, it looks like male Kirk wants to move in to kiss female Kirk. I know that man has an ego, but that's going a LITTLE far IMHO.

[fredneil.livejournal.com]

"It's also a little unfortunate that in the third scan, first panel, it looks like male Kirk wants to move in to kiss female Kirk. I know that man has an ego, but that's going a LITTLE far IMHO."

That was addressed in one of the later Trek movies when the shapeshifting alien who he kissed when it was a woman becomes a copy of himself. Something like "I can't believe I kissed myself." "It's what you've always wanted."

[nate_abril96]

To be fair, if I had a sexy female counterpart I would also probably want to kiss them. Wait, then would that be incest? Parallel universe are weird.

[drtechnobabel]

God, this is hilarious! And I have to admit, I'm impressed that the artist took the time and effort to make the genderswapped versions of the crew look like their original counterparts in terms of body type and facial structure rather than just making them all look drop-dead gorgeous.

[yvonmukluk]

Mirror Shatner out of fucking nowhere.

YES.

[skjam]

Next up, mirror genderflip Kirk!

Sadly, since it's the Abramsverse, we won't get to hear about the genderflipped version of "Turnabout Intruder."

[icon_uk]

Somewhere between incest and a conveniently heteronormative form of narcissism?

[crinos]

Yeah, this is gonna get confusing in a hurry if this keeps up.

On the other hand: Kirk only orgy!

[beyondthefringe]

Oh, Spock, no.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

[thatnickguy]

Eventually, the Kirks have to bang, right? I mean, it's RIGHT THERE. It's like Chekhov's Gun, only with sexual organs. And let's be honest, the only one who could truly please Kirk is another Kirk, regardless of gender.

[crinos]

What do you think Kirk meant by "Compare notes between our two universes"?

I think "notes" is Kirk code for "Our genitals."

[jeyl]

Now with this comic, Star Trek's attitudes towards real honest issues are strictly limited to belonging in alternate realities. First was having openly gay and bisexual characters being featured only in the mirror universe for Deep Space Nine, now a female dominant crew in NuTrek's alternate reality. Looks like we have a long way to go before we have a Star Trek series that has a vast majority female cast or characters who are as open to same-sex relationships as the ones who are to the opposite sex. Until than, they'll treated as issues that are "out of place".

Also, William Shatner as "Mirror Kirk" is supposed to have Brown eyes!

[mastermahan]

It's Kirk. The man is in love with himself and is sexually curious about anything with a vagina. Damn right he's going to try and "compare notes".

Ms. Spock should just be glad her captain is there, because you know she's Jim's second choice.

[halloweenjack]

Technically, it wouldn't be--it would be more like a sex chromosome-switched clone. Still not a good idea for the female one to get pregnant.

I've thought about this.

[halloweenjack]

Jadzia Dax and Lenara Kahn.

[thatnickguy]

If we see mirror genderbent Spock, she better still have the evil goatee. That's necessary.

[jeyl]

It's not a bad example, but I still consider it a stretch. Heck, It's not even the first instance where a female Trill is attracted to another female. The thing is that these relationships both end up "not working" by the end of the episode and both main female characters wind up being paired with a main male character (Beverly/Picard, Dax/Worf or Bashir). Still no where near as bad as what they did on "The Outcast".

[lilacsigil]

Not a bad episode, but the only non-evil same-sex relationship was still shown as wrong and taboo-breaking and they immediately broke up. If it had been one of many such stories, that wouldn't annoy me, but as it is, nope.

[junipepper]

Well, Shatner's eyes are on the green side of brown, a fairly bright color. In TOS it's more noticeable than in later years after his "hair" got so much darker. I'm not seeing a vivid blue in those scans (not like the Chris Pine color); maybe they're going for hazel?

[big_daddy_d]

...is it weird that I find Lady Kirk and Lady Spock hot?

[kamino_neko]

I like Ms Scott taking Mr Scott to task for stereotyping, but it does beg the question, in a genderflipped universe would the stereotypes be flipped too?

This doesn't actually seem to be a fully genderflipped universe. Kirk has found herself coming up against sexist attitudes (like with Turnabout Intruder, this strikes a strange chord for happening in the 24th century, but, whatever). Looks like the genders of the major named characters got flipped in the last two generations, but the indicators are that it's otherwise similar to the main universe.

[abates]

And then it turns out in this universe it's the men who get pregnant, like in that Red Dwarf episode.

[icon_uk]

Why would that even be weird?

[chrisdv]

All I can think of is Lister sleeping with Lister in Red Dwarf.