Mickery reads ST: TNG #25!

Mickery reads ST: TNG #25!


I am not, nor have I ever been, a Trekkie. Not only that, I'm about to admit a secret hidden deep, deep down trapped in my geek closet. I don't even like Star Wars! Tis true, I have commited the cardinal sin! Oh yeah, guess what? Lord of the Rings....more like Bored of the Rings! Ahahahahahahahah!!!! Harry Potter? Uh....something that rhymes with Potter.....Doctor Who...more like Doctor Who.....wait, that one doesn't work.....well, you get the poin. I call myself a geek, a proud geek with a proud Geek heritage, yet I don't know the difference between a....I can't even think of a comparison.


Back to Trek.....I know your basic terms and all....Mostly, it's from Trek refs from other sources though. Thanks to the Simpsons, Futurama, MST3K, etc, I probably know more about Trek, Wars, the Godfather, Citizen Kane, Hitchcock movies, you name it....then I ever knew my tiny brain could handle.


I should've wrote this post before Tork wrote his post about Ice Cube. I could've traded him some Cube knowledge for a little sumpin' sumpin about Trek. I guarantee you those words have never been spoken in the English language. As I approach Star Trek: The Next Generation #25 (From November 91), I approach it with apprehension. The cover image, prominently featuring Worf and his head covered with bumpy taints (Another phrase I guarantee I just introduced to the English language), it's akin to a Nam flashback. It's clear: Worf wants to destroy me. I proceed to march to my own funeral.


So here we go, Wiki at the ready, let's take a look at Star Trek: The Next Generation #25! The Return of Okona, part one! (Which means absolutly nothing to me)



It's a happy occasion. A Trek baby has been born, who will probably be an important character in some spinoff in 2049 or something. But right now he's just a baby. The birth of the baby has stirred up Worf's paternal instincts. For he is a father, and with his child away, he is feeling lonely. Riker teases Worf for being a little whiny bitch. And why not? Worf should be ashamed for being a little whiny bitch. But the fravality must come to an end. Riker and the little whiny bitch are called to the bridge.

Picard has encountered a stranded ship. It belongs to Okona, who is quite the rogue. Riker and the dude from Reading Rainbow head to investigate. Okona had valuable art on the ship and was headed towards a peaceful planet. There's no reason for him to disappear. Damn his roguish ways! Riker and the dude from Reading Rainbow went all that way for nothing! Picard suspects that nothing is wrong and Okona is off being a roguish pimp, but because of his Picard code, he can not rule out the possibility of foul play and must pursue the matter. By the way, it totally rules if you imagine Patrick Stewart reading his lines himself. They approach the planet, and Data's readings show that Okona is the only sentient life form around. Hmm....he must be in DC. As we leave this issue, the crew is beamed down to the planet and they encounter the rogue. He also dresses them up in wacky costumes. Which I suppose is the right thing to do when encountered by a starship crew. Maybe he's going to make them act out a little play he wrote. How cute (and roguish)!

This issue also gives us a subplot of Worf's son, Alexander, and his adventures in the Soviet Union. Unlike Worf, Alexander totally embraces being around humans and participating in the human lifestyle. He even prefers human food to Klingon food. He's absolutly disgusted by his adoptive mother's blood pie.....which sounds wrong on so many levels. I don't blame the kid. He has no interest in being a Klingon. By gum, he wants to be raised a Commie!


As you'd expect, 1991 gives us a treasure trove of dated ads. The back cover is adorned with the infamous teaser ad for Hook. You know, the one where Captain Hook is flipping us off. We also get a reminder to watch Superman! Weeknights on Nick at Nite! Check local listings! And that the price of an Atari Lynx is down to $99.99! That's even less than a hundred bucks! And what good would a Star Trek comic be without pimping some of it's own wares? You can buy the pilot episode of Next Generation on VHS for only 4.95....a great deal! As long as you don't mind Columbia House sending you more episodes you don't care about or just watched on tv last week for higher prices. And just to remind you Trekkies out there that it wasn't such a golden era for Trekkers everywhere, the inside front cover is emblazened with a teaser for Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. That's right....it couldn't even get the back cover of it's own comic. For shame.