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Star Trek: New Frontier #11.2
Star Trek: New Frontier - Double Time
Perfect bound comic book.
48 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 2000
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Peter David
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Peter Allen David, often abbreviated PAD, was an American writer of comic books, novels, television, films, and video games. His notable comic book work includes an award-winning 12-year run on The Incredible Hulk, as well as runs on Aquaman, Young Justice, SpyBoy, Supergirl, Fallen Angel, Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2099, Captain Marvel, and X-Factor.
His Star Trek work included comic books and novels such as the New Frontier book series. His other novels included film adaptations, media tie-ins, and original works, such as the Apropos of Nothing and Knight Life series. His television work includes series such as Babylon 5, Young Justice, Ben 10: Alien Force and Nickelodeon's Space Cases, which he co-created with Bill Mumy.
David often jokingly described his occupation as "Writer of Stuff", and he was noted for his prolific writing, characterized by its mingling of real-world issues with humor and references to popular culture, as well as elements of metafiction and self-reference.
David earned multiple awards for his work, including a 1992 Eisner Award, a 1993 Wizard Fan Award, a 1996 Haxtur Award, a 2007 Julie Award and a 2011 GLAAD Media Award.
Peter Allen David, often abbreviated PAD, was an American writer of comic books, novels, television, films, and video games. His notable comic book work includes an award-winning 12-year run on The Incredible Hulk, as well as runs on Aquaman, Young Justice, SpyBoy, Supergirl, Fallen Angel, Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2099, Captain Marvel, and X-Factor.
His Star Trek work included comic books and novels such as the New Frontier book series. His other novels included film adaptations, media tie-ins, and original works, such as the Apropos of Nothing and Knight Life series. His television work includes series such as Babylon 5, Young Justice, Ben 10: Alien Force and Nickelodeon's Space Cases, which he co-created with Bill Mumy.
David often jokingly described his occupation as "Writer of Stuff", and he was noted for his prolific writing, characterized by its mingling of real-world issues with humor and references to popular culture, as well as elements of metafiction and self-reference.
David earned multiple awards for his work, including a 1992 Eisner Award, a 1993 Wizard Fan Award, a 1996 Haxtur Award, a 2007 Julie Award and a 2011 GLAAD Media Award.
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October 21, 2021
STAR TREK: NEW FRONTIER: DOUBLE TIME is a comic book set in the New Frontier series by Peter David. I have mentioned many times how much I enjoy the New Frontier comics and this is no exception. It actually is so good that I kind of wish Peter David had just adapted it as a novel since it has every bit as complex and interesting as his other works. It also plays an interesting role in setting up multiple character relationships changing in-between THE QUIET PLACE and DARK ALLIES.
The premise of the books is that the Redeemers, fanatical theocratic servants of the god Xant, have set their sights on a new world. Captain MacKenzie Calhoun decides to intervene but arrives too late because he stopped to help another group of imperiled innocents. The entire planet dead, Calhoun can't sit by and grieve so he uses Star Trek technobabble to travel back in time a few weeks.
Shelby, ever the voice of reason [or what passes for such on the U.S.S Excalibur], is appalled by this blatant violation of the Temporal Prime Directive. This also invites Agent Braxton from the 29th century to try to fix their time issues. Mind you, if Braxton is the best and brightest of the future alongside Agent Daniels from Enterprise then they certainly explain why time travel is banned in the 30th century.
I liked the inherent moral conundrum at the heart of things that Captain Calhoun is dealing with. If you do have the ability to fix the past then what becomes the point that not doing so is immoral? A genocide of a planet seems justifiable but how about individual lives? At what point is it interfering with reality as a whole? What about the long term consequences?
As usual, Captain Calhoun spends much of the comic boldly going forward because he can't find reverse. That's always entertaining but this is a problem that is not easily solved and the resolution is one that has a kind of TWILIGHT ZONE-esque twist to it that I liked. Basically, the domino effect means that good actions now can have unintended consequences far later.
The comic apparently exists to rectify a time issue in the books where the Dominion War is skipped over in the text with a lot of characters acting like no time had passed. I feel skipping over the Dominion War was a real missed opportunity in these books and also feel like a retcon wasn't necessary. For all we know, Vulcan women do have two year pregnancies or something similar.
Still, an enjoyable comic and I'm glad we got to see depictions of all the characters. Most lined up with my mental image with the exception of Burogyne. I also regret that we didn't get to see much of the Redeemers despite being the main villains.
The premise of the books is that the Redeemers, fanatical theocratic servants of the god Xant, have set their sights on a new world. Captain MacKenzie Calhoun decides to intervene but arrives too late because he stopped to help another group of imperiled innocents. The entire planet dead, Calhoun can't sit by and grieve so he uses Star Trek technobabble to travel back in time a few weeks.
Shelby, ever the voice of reason [or what passes for such on the U.S.S Excalibur], is appalled by this blatant violation of the Temporal Prime Directive. This also invites Agent Braxton from the 29th century to try to fix their time issues. Mind you, if Braxton is the best and brightest of the future alongside Agent Daniels from Enterprise then they certainly explain why time travel is banned in the 30th century.
I liked the inherent moral conundrum at the heart of things that Captain Calhoun is dealing with. If you do have the ability to fix the past then what becomes the point that not doing so is immoral? A genocide of a planet seems justifiable but how about individual lives? At what point is it interfering with reality as a whole? What about the long term consequences?
As usual, Captain Calhoun spends much of the comic boldly going forward because he can't find reverse. That's always entertaining but this is a problem that is not easily solved and the resolution is one that has a kind of TWILIGHT ZONE-esque twist to it that I liked. Basically, the domino effect means that good actions now can have unintended consequences far later.
The comic apparently exists to rectify a time issue in the books where the Dominion War is skipped over in the text with a lot of characters acting like no time had passed. I feel skipping over the Dominion War was a real missed opportunity in these books and also feel like a retcon wasn't necessary. For all we know, Vulcan women do have two year pregnancies or something similar.
Still, an enjoyable comic and I'm glad we got to see depictions of all the characters. Most lined up with my mental image with the exception of Burogyne. I also regret that we didn't get to see much of the Redeemers despite being the main villains.
September 29, 2021
I hadn't read any of Peter David's New Frontier novels in many years, but his appearance at a local comics shop reminded me I needed to catch up on the ones I hadn't read. I refound this among my collection and read it after dinner the other night. I enjoyed it, but in some ways, it was too short.
I understand there not be any further novels in the NF series (the last few were a trilogy of novellas only published in digital form), especially since Simon and Schuster prefers to publish works that don't contradict their newer shows such as Discovery, Picard, Lower Decks, etc. I will be sad about that, but glad for the wonderful reads Mr. David gave us with this series.
I understand there not be any further novels in the NF series (the last few were a trilogy of novellas only published in digital form), especially since Simon and Schuster prefers to publish works that don't contradict their newer shows such as Discovery, Picard, Lower Decks, etc. I will be sad about that, but glad for the wonderful reads Mr. David gave us with this series.
September 27, 2019
A well done one-off graphic novel. The art is great and the story is good. The character exposition for the benefit of readers not familiar with the New Frontier series is handled well and rarely feels like a waste of space in this short story. The characters look rather like how I imagined they would from reading the novels, which is also nice.
March 26, 2020
Not a bad story. It involves the timey-whimeyness of time-travel, and a crew that I am not all that familiar with, but connector characters like the timeship Relativity and Captain Braxton make an appearance which make it feel more connected to other parts of Trek. I was way more excited that I probably should be when I turned the page and saw the Relativity.
October 10, 2025
Fun romp during the Redeemers story thread. Definitely opens the door to the time travel debate of saving a world by going back in time. Braxton coming back and being a jerk about it is perfectly in line with his character. I think my biggest gripe is that some of these characters don't look like what I am imagining in my head. Ha ha!
July 20, 2019
Only a pale reflection of the New Frontier series proper. I'd advise sticking to the novels series. Not a good jumping on point.
May 24, 2020
The New Frontier series, co-created and written by Peter David, notable Star Trek novel writer, notable comic book writer, and even occasional Star Trek comic book writer, was inevitably going to have a comic book entry. It's surprising it didn't happen sooner or more often.
In this story, the Excalibur is on their way to intervene in a dispute between a local planet and the Redeemers, a race of religious crusading colonizers, when they get sidetracked by a rescue mission. By the time they get to the planet, the Redeemers have committed their passive-aggressive genocide through the virus engineered to spread across the planet if the Redeemer emissary is harmed. Shelby tells Calhoun that he can't be in two places at once, so Calhoun tries to solve the problem of being in two places at once.
Star Trek, at least in the TNG era is more cerebral and makes for boring comics, imo. A lot of people standing around talking, made more stiff by the artist trying to realistically render the characters, as some of them did appear on one TV series or another. This book has a little infodumping in the beginning, but mostly relies on you already knowing the characters and background. And this has a relatively short page count. The story concept had potential, but the end result isn't anything special.
In this story, the Excalibur is on their way to intervene in a dispute between a local planet and the Redeemers, a race of religious crusading colonizers, when they get sidetracked by a rescue mission. By the time they get to the planet, the Redeemers have committed their passive-aggressive genocide through the virus engineered to spread across the planet if the Redeemer emissary is harmed. Shelby tells Calhoun that he can't be in two places at once, so Calhoun tries to solve the problem of being in two places at once.
Star Trek, at least in the TNG era is more cerebral and makes for boring comics, imo. A lot of people standing around talking, made more stiff by the artist trying to realistically render the characters, as some of them did appear on one TV series or another. This book has a little infodumping in the beginning, but mostly relies on you already knowing the characters and background. And this has a relatively short page count. The story concept had potential, but the end result isn't anything special.
February 1, 2013
Star Trek: New Frontier: Double Time is a nice side story done as a graphic novel primarily to introduce the New Frontier story to a wider audience. Technically i think of it as chapter 9 of the overall series. You get a nice snapshot of most of the main characters, plus a guest appearance from Capt. Braxton of the USS Relativity.
Additionally, I seem to remember that the end of this story was also to explain Selar's "really long pregnancy." The concern on this point was centered around New Frontier's tendency to move in "real time"--one year passing between the publication of the books means that a similar time has passed for the characters. This is not always the case, but overall the passage of time remains a central theme to this series.
Additionally, I seem to remember that the end of this story was also to explain Selar's "really long pregnancy." The concern on this point was centered around New Frontier's tendency to move in "real time"--one year passing between the publication of the books means that a similar time has passed for the characters. This is not always the case, but overall the passage of time remains a central theme to this series.
March 21, 2010
With Peter David, you really have to read all of his work... and I mean ALL.
I hadn't read this comic. I wasn't really into comics and I liked the New Frontier series but didn't think the comic was important. Well, there's a gap in between books...because this comic involves time travel and when you have time travel with Peter David, you don't know what is going to happen.
I think I like the art in this book better than the other New Frontier comic.
"Go Si Cwan......Rah"
I hadn't read this comic. I wasn't really into comics and I liked the New Frontier series but didn't think the comic was important. Well, there's a gap in between books...because this comic involves time travel and when you have time travel with Peter David, you don't know what is going to happen.
I think I like the art in this book better than the other New Frontier comic.
"Go Si Cwan......Rah"
February 5, 2010
Interesting to see these guys drawn and what other people think they look like, but the 'timey-whimy' story is only 'okay' and as usual, PAD tries to hard to mske sure everybodies dialogue is 'clever'
and yes, 'timey-whimy' is a word. It was on Doctor Who, so it must be real.
and yes, 'timey-whimy' is a word. It was on Doctor Who, so it must be real.
October 31, 2024
A great little graphic novel! I love how it gives us a "view" of the New Frontier universe. Again, the Redeemers are back, but this little story is mainly about time travel and changing history to try and save a people, but was it for the best?
September 26, 2016
While I think ST: NF translated well enough to the comic format, I can see why the series sort of stalled with this one. A great story for the medium, but a bit too short.
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