#028 - Major Kira if you’re nasty
secret bonus text: Data wants to emphasize that she is not literally a loose cannon, or a cannon at all. This is very important to understanding her character as not-a-gun.
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I’m guessing Data’s in for a little coaching on Monday.
Do you know what’s kind of dumb? I feel deeply conflicted, almost guilty, about presenting scenes from the pilot slightly out of sequence. I am writing a ridiculous comic about one fake TV show cast pretending to be another fake TV show cast, and have completely thrown out piles of continuity from the first show in favor of my own jokes, and yet I’m like OH NO BUT ODO CONFRONTS THE THIEVES AFTER SISKO MEETS KIRA and honestly I just don’t know what to do with myself. This is a confusing and frightening world we live in.
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From the comments, maybe the first discussion of this recurring FAQ:
Them: "You’ve probably been asked this before, but does the LARP bit imply there might be a Silly Costume Episode? Holodecks are wonderful for silly costumes."
Me: "The “Larp” bit is vague in intent, and we’ll see how it shakes out in the long run.
I ran with it as a name because star-for-larp was a good soundalike replacement with the same graphical footprint, it made for a pretty easy TNG logo modification, and it at least summons up the notion of old-school roleplaying games. Whether and how there will be actual larping, hard to say.
I worry that the name is setting up a sub-niche of my already niche readerbase for heartbreak, but these are difficult times we live in."
The answer doesn't really ever get any more satisfying than that -- if anything, it only ever gets more definitively "nope, not happening", once I'd really accepted the labor-intensive nature of producing new/alternate screencaps for characters, and how much additional work it'd be to figure out, and execute on, e.g. photoshopped edits of shots to put in DS9-appropriate costuming. I also considered and rejected the idea of just straight up using DS9 character shots for in-character interactions; it'd be visually confusing in a lot of cases and rob me of the ability to play with the TNG crew's facial acting as freqeuntly as I'd like.
So, an imperfect name for an imperfect world. It didn't ever get in the way of the comic in any real sense, so, good enough.