{"id":5773,"date":"2009-07-26T02:21:29","date_gmt":"2009-07-26T01:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.slipserver.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/jones-and-johnson-talk-star-trek-comics\/"},"modified":"2009-08-22T08:11:35","modified_gmt":"2009-08-22T15:11:35","slug":"jones-and-johnson-talk-star-trek-comics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2009\/07\/jones-and-johnson-talk-star-trek-comics\/","title":{"rendered":"Jones And Johnson Talk Star Trek Comics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the Comic-Con IDW panel, <b>Tim Jones<\/b> and <b>Mike Johnson<\/b> discussed their forthcoming comics such as <i>Nero<\/i> and the <i>Star Trek XI<\/i> adaptation comic as well as future comics including one based on a sequel to <i>Star Trek XI<\/i> and one set in the <i>Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/i> era. <\/p>\n<p>As reported by <a href=\"http:\/\/trekmovie.com\/\">TrekMovie.com<\/a>, the <i>Nero<\/i> comics were meant to fill in the missing twenty-five years between Spock and Nero&#8217;s first encounter, and after they went back in time and met again. &#8220;&#8230;there is a huge story sitting right there in the middle of the movie that, obviously, they didn&#8217;t have a lot of time to go into on-screen with everything else going on,&#8221; explained Jones. &#8220;So we get to fill in a little bit of that in graphic form.&#8221; <!--more-->&#8220;And it isn&#8217;t just the <i>Shawshank Redemption<\/i>, or &#8216;Neroshank Redemption,&#8221; added Johnson. &#8220;He is in prison for part of the series, but how did he know where to be to meet Spock? A big part of the mini-series is about how he learns that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In addition to filling in that missing time, there are things included that fans will enjoy. &#8220;We have a sort of famous Klingon,&#8221; said Johnson. There are characters, things, entities from the <i>Star Trek<\/i> universe that are in the comic that were not seen in the movie, that actually tie into the story.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jones and Johnson then spoke about the <i>Star Trek XI <\/i>adaptation comic. &#8220;It is not going to be an exact duplication of the movie,&#8221; said Jones. &#8220;We will be able to hear some inner dialog from our characters, which you don&#8217;t get on screen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t want to just tell the scenes verbatim, because you can just watch them in the movie,&#8221; said Johnson. &#8220;So we would rather just use the comic form and take advantage of it. So show scenes that you know, but show them from a different perspective.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As for future plans, &#8220;There has been discussion about doing a Countdown-ish project before a second movie,&#8221; said Johnson. He also revealed that the pair would like to do a <i>Next Generation<\/i> story. &#8220;We have had conversations with IDW, but to jump back and tell a story between <i>Nemesis<\/i> and <i>Countdown<\/i>, to show how Data came back and became captain of the Enterprise, and what happened to Picard and their relationship and other members of the crew,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We are huge Next Gen fans, so yeah there is another story to be told where Countdown left off.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To read more, head to the article located <a href=\"http:\/\/trekmovie.com\/2009\/07\/25\/exclusive-interview-tim-jones-mike-johnson-talk-nero-star-trek-adaptation-future-comics\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Comic-Con IDW panel, Tim Jones and Mike Johnson discussed their forthcoming comics such&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2443],"tags":[2525,2506,2507,2514],"class_list":["post-5773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-merchandise","tag-comics","tag-johnson","tag-jones","tag-nero"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/merchandise\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Merchandise<\/a>","tag_info":"Merchandise","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5773"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6769,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5773\/revisions\/6769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}