In the Star Trek world, it’s well known that Doctor McCoy had a dislike of transporters. But really, who can blame him? Transporter accidents have resulted in pshychosis, duplicate humans, visits to (and visitors from) alternate realities and the chimeric merging of characters, on more than one occasion. In fact, given the number of transporter accidents that have occurred throughout the Star Trek franchise, it’s incredible that they were ever approved for anything other than cargo.
Perhaps Santa would have been better simply using the transporter to beam presents directly into children’s houses.
Merry Christmas 😀
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Geordie: Sure… but what can I do?
Santa: Well, do you remember that transporter accident that created a duplicate of Will Riker…?
[Caption: Some time later…]
Santa: Geordie! What did you do? The new Santa has been destroying children's toys
and instead of a full and fluffy white beard he's just got a little black goatee
Geordie: It sounds like I've pulled your evil twin over from the mirror universe by mistake
Santa: How did that happen?
Geordie: Well… there have been so many transporter accidents over the years that I guess I must have reproduced the wrong one!
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The ‘new’ Santa with a black goatee, sounds like someone I know!
Merry Christmas.
Hmmm… and where’s the link to svg file ?
Sorry – it was an oversight due to posting just before dashing out the door to visit family for Christmas. I’ve added the link now.
Hmmm ! It opens strangely in Firefox : the text is here, but not the bubbles. All seems ok in Inkscape. Those Christmas diners are exhausting !
We make the SVG files available primarily so that people can download them to open in Inkscape, to learn from them (and maybe find some Easter Eggs). At this point there are too many differences between browsers when it comes to rendering complex Inkscape-created files. That’s not to say that you _shouldn’t_ open them in a browser (it’s the only way to find the Easter Eggs in some of them), but that’s not our main reason for making the SVG files available.
That said, I don’t know why the speech bubbles aren’t appearing in Firefox – they’ve been created the same way we’ve used for every other strip.