#020 - Secular Winter Holiday Extravaganza
secret bonus text: O holy knife / thy blade is brightly SHIIIIIIIIIning
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Worf is really into (a) Klingon opera and (b) Christmas carols; he wrote his Starfleet thesis, “Sleighing Song, Slaying Song”, on the formal and thematic similarities and contrasts between the two traditional musical corpora.
For example: it turns out that Good King Wenceslas, save for a couple of batleth fights and some ritual mating, essentially resembles the Klingon folk story of the ninth Emperor’s attempt to find a good bottle of bloodwine at three a.m. on a government holiday weekend.
Y’all have a good whatever you have or don’t have or have already had in this pre-utopian, pre-post-scarcity chunk of the human timeline. See you in a couple days.
Transcript:
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Reader can have little a Worf, as a treat.
I did regret a bit writing him out of the main thrust of the comic; my plan was always to bring him in as himself once Geordi's campaign caught up with the show's 4th season, but that plan was hatched before I started actually making the strip. By the time I was closing in on episode 200 and still in season one and burning out, it was clear that that was unlikely to actually happen. In hindsight I would have liked to have written him in more; coming up with cameos was the best I could do in the flow of things.
I'm not sure exactly how writing Worf-as-Worf vs. Bev-as-Dax would have gone, but it could have been interesting.