Ah, now Kristen’s — sorry, Kri’Stenn’s — “spoonheads” comment from a few pages back makes sense. That thing on Seska’s forehead really DOES look like a spoon!
@jbwarner86: And not to mention a chapter of the Fugitive parody where we only have the guys from that camping group Eric was forcibly admitted to spend summer.
@Chris Wolvie: Nah, there were a few in the Star Trek: Generations story too. Also that one Sunday strip where the two nameless nerds at the comic book store were arguing over who the better MST3K host was 😁
@TheJayster99: This whole strip is just an excuse to dunk on Voyager’s early main villains, Seska and the Kazon.
Some context: Seska was a member of Chakotay’s crew, who was actually a Cardassian spy.
Since Voyager takes place in the Delta Quadrant, they couldn’t just use Klingons or Romulans as villains, they had to come up with all-new alien bad guys. The most prominent of these was the Kazon, a bunch of guys with big foreheads and goofy haircuts, who, in the grand Star Trek tradition, were a metaphor; in this case, they were a metaphor for how scared the very white writers were by stories about LA street gangs.
Neither of them were very popular and would get largely phased out by the end of the first season as the writers tried to make more intimidating, or at least interesting, villains.
“Paris, shut up before I toss you in the brig for a year for BS reasons now rather than later…”
Ah, now Kristen’s — sorry, Kri’Stenn’s — “spoonheads” comment from a few pages back makes sense. That thing on Seska’s forehead really DOES look like a spoon!
It was times like this that Captain Janeway felt more like Principal Janeway.
@jbwarner86: And not to mention a chapter of the Fugitive parody where we only have the guys from that camping group Eric was forcibly admitted to spend summer.
@Chris Wolvie: Nah, there were a few in the Star Trek: Generations story too. Also that one Sunday strip where the two nameless nerds at the comic book store were arguing over who the better MST3K host was 😁
As far as I know, this is the first-ever NNS comic WITHOUT any of the NNS cast. 🙂
@TheJayster99: This whole strip is just an excuse to dunk on Voyager’s early main villains, Seska and the Kazon.
Some context: Seska was a member of Chakotay’s crew, who was actually a Cardassian spy.
Since Voyager takes place in the Delta Quadrant, they couldn’t just use Klingons or Romulans as villains, they had to come up with all-new alien bad guys. The most prominent of these was the Kazon, a bunch of guys with big foreheads and goofy haircuts, who, in the grand Star Trek tradition, were a metaphor; in this case, they were a metaphor for how scared the very white writers were by stories about LA street gangs.
Neither of them were very popular and would get largely phased out by the end of the first season as the writers tried to make more intimidating, or at least interesting, villains.
… I got nothing here 😅
Awkward.