Continuations of the 5 Year Mission

[Danlav05]

I'm trying to make a list of continuations of the 5 Year Mission - there have many that can lay claim to being 'Seasons 4&5'. There have been many over the last almost half-century, so far I have:

ON SCREEN:
- The Animated Series
- New Voyages/Phase II (fan made but pretty prominent - begins modifications to the ship/uniforms as we drive towards TMP)
- Continues (fan made but pretty prominent)

IN PRINT:
- Pocket Books (they have done many many hundreds of stories but not the last mission as sich - the gaaap between TOS and TMP is covered in 'The Lost Years')
- Power Records Book + Tape series (animated on YouTube as 'The Federation Files')
- New Visions (Photocomic series by John Byrne)
- Year Four (IDW Comics)
- Mission's End (IDW Comics)
- DC Series 1: Annual #1: The Final Voyage
- DC Series 2 #75: Star-Crossed

GAMES:
- 25th Anniversary / Judgement Rites (divided into 15 episodes, with the original cast. Adapted into a CTGI animation by Robert England -

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Obviously over 50 Years there have been many stories of Kirk and crew told and no doubt there will be many more.

 

[alensatemybuick]

There was also "Spock Must Die", written by James Blish, And the "Star Trek: New Voyages" anthologies of the 1970s, both published by Bantam books. One story in STNV was filmed as a "New Voyages / Phase II" episode: Mind-Sifter. There were quite a few other Bantam Trek novels from the 70s, perhaps too many to list.

One of my favorites stories in STNV was "Visit to a Weird Planet Revisited", which had a sorta "Galaxy Quest" vibe in which Kirk, Spock and McCoy get swapped in a transporter malfunction with their actor counterparts. Its been well over 30 years since I read any of them, but I do recall a scene where the actors have to suppress a smile when a suspicious Scotty notices Nimoy's fake ears and pulls a phaser on them, As I recall, Scotty thnks they might be spies, but they gain his trust by mentioning the "Mirror, Mirror" episode (or incident from Scotty's POV) and how mirror Spock had a beard, something that was "not in the official log" and would be known only by those who were there..

Famed JPL scientist Jesco von Puttkamer even wrote a story.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_New_Voyages