The cover tells you everything you need to know. The Doctor and his companions (Amy and Rory) hop over to the universe of the Enterprise D. There, they find that the Cybermen have forged an alliance with the Borg. Voila: instant profit story.
It’s a fun idea, right up there with “Enterprise vs. Death Star” and “Buffy & Scoobies vs. The Smurfs.” But while the story tried to go beyond that fannish “What if?” it only partially succeeded.There’s a convenient side plot about an oceanic mining operation that doesn’t really add anything. We do get a flashback to a former incarnation of the Doctor meeting up with the original Enterprise crew, which was rather fun. And we see Picard struggling to overcome his trauma with the Borg. While that’s a powerful, painful thing to watch, it’s also something we’ve seen before in the series and in First Contact.
The Borg/Cyberman vs. the Doctor/Federation is the big conflict here, but I think the conflict between Picard and the Doctor was far more interesting. Both are good, strong, stubbornly determined characters whose style couldn’t be more different. I wish we had seen more of their struggle to stop butting heads and finding a way to work together.
Also, more of Rory and Worf teaming up, please. I would read an entire comic about that duo. Guinan and the Doctor were fun too.
The artwork…okay, I’m not a comics reader, but the art did not impress me. Some of it was decent, but mostly it felt rushed.
Is this great literature? Not so much. On the other hand, I didn’t order them expecting great literature. I ordered them because it was an idea that hit me right in my inner fanboy. Could it have been better? Absolutely. But the toy inside gives you exactly what it promises on the box.
Now, when are we getting the crossover where Torchwood goes up against Q?
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OTOH, if you tuned in just after a commercial break and saw Jack Harkness lying in bed with Q*, you'd be pretty confident that yes, they did actually go there....
* This actually happened to me with TNG: I came into one episode just late enough to see Picard wake up with Q beside him in bed. I was unsurprised to learn it had been a girlfriend of Picard's there when he fell asleep. ( But also disappointed; Not because I ship Picard or anything that silly, I just would have thought the show had some real gutsiness.)
How close to canon this would be, I have no idea!
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Completely off-topic:
I nearly laughed myself out of my chair at home the other night when I realized that the man playing a murderous philanthropist in "Arrow" is Barrowman! All I could think of was "Captain Jack Harkness!"
It's not so much that Jack himself changes between shows (Though as someone noted, he does seem to do much better, and be happier, solo or following the Doctor than he is trying to lead other people) as the whole show's tone. It probably doesn't help that the first story in which he appears in Doctor Who was one of the best of the ninth Doctor's season, where Torchwood has some serious ups and downs. If you want to see the best of the series, you can look for the Episodes "Out of Time" and "Captain Jack Harkness" - in the latter, Jack gets to flirt with... Jack Harkness (But it's not what you'd think, hearing that summary). They can probably be watched out of order without messing with the main plotline too much.
Dunno, that might be what makes it work-- Q (and us) chuckling while they all take themselves so damn seriously.
Heck, I haven't seen any Dr. Who in two decades (more than that, really)! I wish they still put up episodes on PBS, like they used to!
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Oh. My. God.
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That depends on when you write it. 3;)