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Some of the Expanded Universe material kinda tried to go that route... blaming the J.J. Abrams version of the supernova event on Tal Shiar hijinks, either in the form of them carrying out an illegal subspace weapon test that Went Horribly Wrong or, in STO, being deceived by the Iconians. I know, I just saw the opportunity to take a cheap shot at TAS and ran with it. Shredded Space Satan made me do it.

"No we didn't." - the wizards of Megas-Tu. (Yes, this is an actual screen capture of actual wizards from an actual episode of Star Trek.)

Especially Toynami... Harmony Gold created this whole mess to protect their then-new partnership with Toynami from competition from Bandai and Yamato.

They were... but the problem is "for how long?". The supernova that destroyed the Romulan system in Star Trek: Picard was a normal supernova, which means the Romulans should have had MILLENNIA of advance notice... not a few years. Stars don't go supernova overnight. It's a process that takes millions or billions of years.

Yeah... at least when they did that awful tie-in comic to set up the first J.J. Abrams movie, the supernova that destroyed Romulus was in a different star system on the edge of Romulan space, was triggered artificially, and the threat was due to some kind of subspace shenanigans causing the destructive wavefront to propagate faster-than-light. It was goofy, but that was to be expected from Captain Mystery Box and the Can't Write boys. Picard's alternate take on it, making the star the Romulan system's own and removing the exotic (and malicious/illegal cause) made it substantially more ridiculous since the Romulan civilization as a whole and its entire (considerable) scientific community collectively failed a spot check every instant of every day for two millennia or more regarding the status of the single most noticeable object in their homeworld's sky at any given time. It took it from being stupid and goofy J.J. Abrams-trademark trash tier writing to complete insanity. Let's be honest, how many times has the Enterprise been "the only ship in the [term for a volume of space]" when Earth has been threatened? I'm pretty sure that alone answers the question. Starfleet's forces are mainly concentrated on the Federation's borders, rather than near Earth, partly because the Federation seems to share borders with so many belligerent powers: the Klingons (until the 2280s), the Romulans, the Cardassians, the Tzenkethi, the Breen, the Gorn, the Tholians, etc. (That's why the first question asked after Spock indicates that the Klingon peace proposal includes a total cessation of hostilities and dismantling of the defensive installations along the neutral zone is if they're mothballing Starfleet.)

If they're smart, they'll just go create their own Gundam timeline.

Circle FANKY? Ships are kind of their thing, so I'd expect they're probably more or less done with Macross.

Or cultural... what great, monolithic empire hasn't been paralyzed with indecision after the capital it believed was untouchable is threatened? (Maybe that's why, by TNG and DS9, there's an auxiliary Klingon military HQ on Ty'Gokor?) The general vibe I get is that the Romulans, as a less belligerent and fractious people to begin with who were only just switching TOS character sheets with the Klingons over which of them are the "good enemies" vs. the backstabbing deceitful ones, generally had more of their sh*t together than the Klingons ever did. It wasn't the blast itself that knocked Excelsior around, it was a subspace shockwave produced by the blast. Excelsior was at impulse and still got knocked around pretty badly by it, but it's worth noting that warp drives aren't the only propulsion technologies that use subspace fields for propulsive effect. Impulse drives do too. It's possible ships at warp were hit even harder by it because they were running much more intense subspace fields, and were maybe tossed about to their own destruction. It was one of those weird planar shockwaves that only exist in fiction... maybe Qo'nos got lucky and it just... missed? Admittedly not any less unrealistic than the Romulans just failing miserably to notice their sun was ready to go supernova, something that any idiot should've been able to tell in the two thousand or so years they'd lived in the system after emigrating from Vulcan.

At the very least, that is how Kawamori chooses to explain things like Macross's "broad strokes" approach to inter-series continuity, multiple versions of a given story and the changes between versions, zeerust, most examples of art evolution, and the occasional Word of God moment like redefining the significance of the VF-X2 coup attempt. I don't think so. Kawamori's views are his own, while Big West takes a somewhat (but not too much) firmer view of things like continuity. As to the awkward framing choices in Delta... I don't think there's anything more to that than just having done a very poor job with the action choreography, which is a problem that dogs the show's entire run.

... Uncle's Cousin's Nephew's Former Roommate! Seems like a vanilla-enough action comedy, I guess.

Gundam is... diverse in its styles of storytelling. Amuro and Char could most charitably be called best frenemies, but there's a lot of wooly stuff about the evolution of mankind, empathy, and the nature of conflict. Basically, "like Macross but relentlessly dark and pessimistic."

Yes, there absolutely wasn't an entire feature film devoted to Char's unrequited man-crush on Amuro complete with him secretly sending Amuro gifts and everything before a dramatic reunion that involves what might as well be actual magic and ending with them dying together. The Earth didn't move, but a moon-sized asteroid absolutely did. After all, that'd be crazy, wouldn't it?

"The Q and the Grey" definitely supports the idea, since the subspace shockwaves from the Q's civil war collapsed Voyager's warp field. Mind you, there'd probably be a more immediate economic crisis caused disruptions of traffic to and from Qo'nos due to the debris from Praxis's explosion impacting the surface, the ensuing environmental catastrophes large-scale impact events would've caused, and the disruptions to shipping caused by the debris that is still in orbital or near-orbital space, to say nothing of the inevitable cleanup effort that probably involved no small amount of photon torpedo and disruptor fire to break the debris into manageable chunks small enough to be burned up on reentry or at least be towed away with tractor beams. Quite a lot more disruptive and anarchic than simply coordinating mass evacuations.

It can't possibly be as hilariously terribad as G-Saviour, so they have my curiosity...

It is, yes... but neither of them have the views you claim they do. Big West officially considers Macross II: Lovers Again (and by extension its tie-in games Macross 2036 and Macross: Eternal Love Song) to be a "parallel world"/alternate universe setting. Kawamori officially doesn't believe in the idea of "canon" and considers all Macross titles including Macross II: Lovers Again to be equally-valid stand-alone stories that dramatize the events of some "true" history. Neither Big West nor Kawamori think Macross II "belongs somewhere else where fewer people can see it". The idea that Big West and/or Kawamori disapproved of Macross II was a toxic, baseless rumor that caused no small amount of fighting on these boards and elsewhere. Big West demonstrably included Macross II and its video-game tie-ins in material that was put together during and after Macross 7, Mikimoto put references to it in Macross 7 Trash and Macross the First, etc. etc. Yeah. They're part of the same parallel world setting Macross II is in Big West's view. (Though there have been one or two publications like Macross Ace that inadvertently put Macross II in the same timeline with the rest of Macross, with an incorrect date.)

Admittedly, I misremembered the scene from Star Trek VI so I misstated the nature of the Klingon problem. Allow me to remedy that. Star Trek's Klingons were always a thinly-veiled allegory for the Soviet Union and the events of Star Trek VI were very much ripped from the headlines... which made the whole schtick a lot more plausible. The Klingons weren't incapable of solving the problem themselves and had half a century to work on the problem. Their issue, and the reason they opted to try for peace with the Federation, was that the majority of the Klingon Empire's resources were committed to maintaining its military and they couldn't devote the resources necessary to sort their problem out without compromising their national defense against the Federation and Romulans. (It's noted in a memo by Ron Moore, the writer who laid down a lot of the setting information for Klingons, that their homeworld is resource-poor. The Klingon economy isn't quite as robust as the Federation's because of the resources invested in maintaining control over conquered worlds and their native populations and annexing new territory for more resources all the time. Basically, while the Klingon Empire and Federation are about the same size, the Klingons are a lot less wealthy because of the difference in governmental policies, so their economy couldn't tank the hit of Praxis blowing up without having to divert resources from the military.) When it came to the Romulans, it made a lot less sense because the Romulans were not as fractious as the Klingons and the disaster was simply the loss of one planet at a time when relations with their neighbors were arguably the best they'd ever been in the wake of the Dominion War.

Well, not quite... but the important bit is that Macross II has never officially been in-universe fiction like DYRL?. That's just a popular fan theory based on the aforementioned cameos of characters and music in Macross 7. Officially, it's a "parallel world" timeline and has been since the 90's, though Kawamori's stance is "Canon? What canon?".

Let's just say I'm gunshy about what happened the last time someone ran with completely the wrong idea about Macross II's status and validity. I'm sure you remember why. The mods sure haven't forgotten. Flash Back 2012 is more an orphaned epilogue presented as a separate "extra feature". Novelizations and such aside, the only in-continuity narratives I can recall between DYRL? and II are ones that explicitly tie-into II: Macross 2036 and Eternal Love Song. Within the alternate context of DYRL? as an in-universe movie, anyway... there have been later stories that presented Boddole Zer's movie mobile fortress as being a real ship class like the second Frontier movie and VF-X.

Yes, the whole Romulus subplot makes very little sense... especially given that Star Trek: Picard stripped away the "exotic" causes and effects of the supernova that destroyed Romulus in the J.J. Abrams movies, reducing it from a sudden and unanticipated threat that obliterated many star systems and threatened the entire galaxy to having years of warning about a disaster 100% localized to the Romulan system. I get the feeling that change in scale was made AFTER they conceived of this subplot and made it the foundation of season one. Instead, the Romulans are an interstellar power rivaling the Federation for scale and power who can't evacuate one planet given years of advance notice. Uh-huh... and it's not really any better thought out. The Klingon one was way more plausible. It wasn't that the Klingons couldn't evacuate Qo'nos, it was that their economy had been so devastated by the Praxis disaster and so war-focused that they didn't have the means to repair the damage to their homeworld and they needed Federation help to clean it up... like the Chernobyl disaster it was based on for the Soviet Union.

Not for Remix or its predecessor... but most of the other post-reboot comics have Tommy Yune listed with a writer's credit. Your description is fundamentally accurate for licensing in general and most old Robotech comics in particular, but there was that decade or so in the 2000s where HG really was trying to give a damn about their work.

This is true, and we've seen Picard falter and even fail to live up to his ideals before... but it's a question of magnitude. Picard's various lapses in connection with the Borg are at least logical within his narrative and characterization. Him having a breakdown about having been assimilated and forced to destroy a Starfleet armada while at his family's place in France, being on the receiving end of a "what the hell, hero" over his willingness to go along with an attempted Borg genocide ("I, Borg"), or his lapses of temper in First Contact fit with who he is and why. The same with his traumas involving the losses of the Stargazer and the Enterprise-D, or how he's highly uncomfortable pursuing a relationship with Dr. Crusher because she's his dead best friend's widow and he's arguably indirectly responsible for her husband's death. The reasoning in these failures, stumbles, and lapses makes sound narrative sense and builds his character. What they did in Star Trek: Picard doesn't scan. At all. It makes sense that he would feel guilty about Data's death and would be interested in seeing to the wellbeing of Data's "children". But the whole humiliation conga involving him and the Romulans, him and Musiker, etc. don't make any narrative sense within the context of the show itself. For instance, why is it Jean-Luc Picard's fault that Musiker was dismissed from Starfleet? It doesn't make any internal sense even if you count expanded universe material. He resigned in protest over the suspension of aid to the Romulans and she still had a career when he was gone. They didn't fire her because he quit. She acted out and lost her security clearance and then her commission, drank heavily, used drugs, and drove her family away by acting like a paranoid, drug-fueled, alcoholic nutjob. How is any of that Picard's fault? Yet the Star Trek: Picard TV series tries to have the audience accept that every single one of the poor life choices Musiker made in the fourteen years between Picard's resignation and the series is somehow Picard's fault and that he should be sorry for it. The same goes for the Federation banning "synths". Jean-Luc Picard was a staunch advocate for the rights of artificial life in his Starfleet career right up to its end and even after. Yet somehow he's supposed to be in the wrong because the Federation decided without him to ban artificial lifeform research in the wake of a devastating terrorist attack? It's a democracy. Picard isn't King, yet somehow we're supposed to feel this is a personal failure on his part? Especially when they tie it into the death of Will and Deanna's first kid who coincidentally could've been saved if only the Federation hadn't banned the treatment for his life-threatening illness as part of banning all synthetic life forms. It doesn't scan. It does not make narrative sense. The series incessantly tries to tell the audience that Jean-Luc Picard is this awful, entitled, privileged, negligent person for seemingly nothing more than having not prevented things that were not in his power to prevent. It's just asinine.

Except for that first sentence, this is wrong. When Macross II was first introduced, it was THE Macross sequel... as in, literally the only one. After Kawamori was enticed back to do Macross Plus and Macross 7, it was rebranded as a "parallel world" timeline separate from that of Kawamori's Macross sequels. That news was dispensed in a few places like a note at the end of the OVA's novelization. Officially, at least as far as Big West goes, it seems to retain this "parallel world" status. Some printed materials from the late 90's into the 2000s list Macross II on the same timeline as all of the other Macross stories. Kawamori's view is more wooly. His take, from the Macross Museum, is that he doesn't really believe in canon and that all Macross stories are stand-alone and equally valid. In the past, he'd opined various things like all Macross stories being dramatizations of a "true" Macross history that amount to much the same thing.

... I doubt it'd even faze the Robotech fanbase at this point. After all, the last Robotech comic's "big reveal" was that there's an entire Robotech multiverse full of different "bad future" parallel universes spawned by the many iterations of a time loop in which the SDF-3 accidentally travels back in time and crashes on Earth in 1999 to be mistaken for "Zor's Battlefortress". It presents all of the different failed Robotech projects as parallel worlds created by different iterations of the time loop. At the end of said comic, they apparently break the time loop and are headed for a future that isn't shite... but they got cancelled so y'know, best future.

It was after... but also with a different studio entirely. The Hollywood Reporter reported that Warner Bros had acquired the Robotech movie rights on 7 Sept 2007 and asserted that Tobey Maguire was going to both produce and start in the film. Maguire was the only person actually mentioned in connection with the project who actually was connected to it in the capacity reported, however briefly. Everything after that turned out to be fake news. Spider-Man 3 starring Tobey Maguire came out in May 2007, but that was a Columbia/Sony project. Sony Pictures didn't acquire the Robotech license until about nine years later in 2016, a few years after Warner Bros allowed their license to expire. To be fair, that "franchise" came pre-ruined thanks to the delusional egomaniac who was in charge of it and flew both of its immediate sequel projects into the ground. The shitty comics only emerged like maggots on a fresh corpse after that self-aggrandizing hack finished Kevork-ing the animated series. It's been their medium of choice because it's the only way they can inexpensively do a narrative involving the Macross character and designs the fanbase loves so much... video games take years and millions of dollars, but you can fart out a bad comic in a couple weeks and fairly cheaply.

Tune in to the BattleTech and MechWarrior fans losing their goddamn minds over this one. It's like watching the Q-Anon nutjobs go at it, but with giant robots.