“Sub Rosa” is taken into account one of many weakest Star Trek episodes, however its notorious sufficient to get its very personal shout out in IDW’s Star Trek #3.
Warning: incorporates spoilers for Star Trek #3!What is essentially thought of to be one of many worst Star Trek episodes ever, The Subsequent Era’s “Sub Rosa,” simply received a sly callout within the franchise’s newest comics. The episode, nearly universally panned by critics and followers alike, noticed Physician Beverly Crusher fall in love with the identical otherworldly entity that menaced her grandmother, and in IDW Publishing’s Star Trek #3, she mentions the incident in passing to Captain Benjamin Sisko; whereas it was a throw-away reference, it exhibits the occasions of this episode nonetheless left an impression on Physician Crusher.
The problem, written by Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing, illustrated by Ramon Rosanas and Joe Eisma, coloured by Lee Loughrdige and lettered by Clayton Cowles, sees Captain Sisko in remedy. For the previous three years, he has been residing with the non-linear, non-corporeal Prophets, however they returned Sisko to our actuality to find who’s killing the god-like beings of the Star Trek universe. Starfleet has ordered fixed bodily and psychological monitoring of Sisko in addition to ordering him to bear counseling, and through a remedy session with Physician Crusher, he struggles to explain what omnipotence was like. Crusher tells Sisko of a number of the really implausible issues she has seen being in Starfleet, mentioning “one time I fell in love with a ghost.”
The incident Physician Crusher refers to occurred in “Sub Rosa,” which aired throughout Star Trek: The Subsequent Era’s seventh and ultimate season. After her grandmother dies, Physician Crusher is left to kind her property out; as she types by way of her grandmother’s life, she meets a ghostly stranger, who claims to be her grandmother’s lover. Quickly, Physician Crusher got here beneath the stranger’s affect, and historical past practically repeated itself. It was revealed the being was an “anaphasic” being, and the crew of the Enterprise was in a position to defeat it. The episode is mostly despised by followers and critics for quite a lot of causes, together with the weird setting (a distant colony world modeled after Scottish tradition) in addition to the storyline. Nevertheless, the episode was lengthy on character growth for Physician Crusher–and now it will get an acknowledgement within the comics.
“Sub Rosa” Was a Low Level for Star Trek
“Sub Rosa” shouldn’t be solely thought to be a low level in Star Trek: The Subsequent Era’s historical past, however within the franchise as a complete, and whereas its point out right here shouldn’t be prone to result in its rehabilitation, it nonetheless exhibits the occasions of the episode mattered. Along with fleshing out Physician Crusher additional as a personality, it reminded viewers that the universe is huge, and there are a lot of varieties of creatures in it–together with ones that take the types of ghosts and seduce ladies, utilizing their life power for nourishment. Whereas this will likely sound just like the makings of a very good episode, many components work towards it in the long run, inflicting it to overlook its touchdown.
Physician Crusher associated the story to Sisko as a method of telling him she had handled non-corporeal entities previously; it gave her an “in” with Sisko, who was going to the counseling periods considerably reluctantly. Sisko has been sluggish to heat as much as his new crew, and this session with Physician Crusher was progress–and thanks partially to one of many worst Star Trek episodes ever: The Subsequent Era’s “Sub Rosa.”
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