Doctorwhovian
Fleet Captain
Sort of curious about this...
In the DC comic series, after Spock is revived in Star Trek III (Around issue #9 or so) and participates in the Mirror Universe saga (Where he regains his old self by mind-melding with the Mirror Spock), he's assigned to the science ship Surak and with a few exceptions (such as flashbacks and a team up or two) largely is not involved with the Enterprise crew (Who are on the Excelsior at this point) until the Doomsday bug storyline (Which is sort of a 'reset' button for Star Trek IV as it kills of the Surak crew, messes up Spock's memory again and has Kirk and crew in trouble again fleeing to Vulcan in the bird of prey) and then becomes a regular part of the crew again in Peter David's run. During Spock's tenure on the Surak, Saavik sort of takes his place on Excelsior as science officer. All non-canon of course but still kind of fun.
So I'm curious, what was the intent in getting rid of Spock? Paramount's wishes (They didn't seem to have that much control over the Excelsior storyline anyway so I doubt this)? Preference of the writer(s)? Too many characters already (Since the DC comics had a large non-TV supporting cast like Bearclaw etc.)?
In the DC comic series, after Spock is revived in Star Trek III (Around issue #9 or so) and participates in the Mirror Universe saga (Where he regains his old self by mind-melding with the Mirror Spock), he's assigned to the science ship Surak and with a few exceptions (such as flashbacks and a team up or two) largely is not involved with the Enterprise crew (Who are on the Excelsior at this point) until the Doomsday bug storyline (Which is sort of a 'reset' button for Star Trek IV as it kills of the Surak crew, messes up Spock's memory again and has Kirk and crew in trouble again fleeing to Vulcan in the bird of prey) and then becomes a regular part of the crew again in Peter David's run. During Spock's tenure on the Surak, Saavik sort of takes his place on Excelsior as science officer. All non-canon of course but still kind of fun.
So I'm curious, what was the intent in getting rid of Spock? Paramount's wishes (They didn't seem to have that much control over the Excelsior storyline anyway so I doubt this)? Preference of the writer(s)? Too many characters already (Since the DC comics had a large non-TV supporting cast like Bearclaw etc.)?