This blog does not cover many things regularly, so it’s pretty neat when two of those few things overlap. In this instance, those two things are Silverwolf/Greater Mercury Comics and Star Trek.
AssignmentEarth.ca Relaunched.
The web’s most complete site on this back-door pilot from Star Trek gets its seventh major update, with new design and content.
I found out about the Assignment Earth site while visiting artist Scott Dutton’s website, catspawdynamics. The AE site has the complete story of the plan to spin-off the episode into it’s own series. There are scripts, series proposals, action figures, comic adaptations, cast bio’s and insights, set blueprints, and so much more.
Scott has even written his own adaptation of the story, which is available on the site as well:
James Blish adapted the episode as one of the stories included in the Star Trek 3 anthology. In his version, the Trek characters dominate. When I came to do mine, I went in the opposite direction, writing the story from Seven, Isis, and Lincoln’s point of view, leaving out the Trek crew’s scenes which didn’t include the Æcharacters.”
Both versions are available in ePUB (iBooks, etc.) and KF8/MOBI (Kindle) formats.
The recent update looks great, I am glad I saw the announcement and thus the site. With all the fan films being made today it is interesting to see so much information about Gene Roddenberry’s own vision of a successor to Star Trek.
Thanks Scott!
