first star trek annual by d.c. comcis

[lordsofelsewhen]

Has anyone read this? I have a copy i love the story. wish they filmed it

 

[Therin of Andor]

i love the story. wish they filmed it

Yes, loved it, too, but my huge disappointment was that - after numerous little cross-pollinations between the editors and writers from DC, Pocket and FASA of the day - there was no integration at all between the "first missions" celebrated by DC Comics' Annual ("All Those Years Ago") and Pocket's first "giant" paperback ("Enterprise: The First Adventure") for the 20th anniversary. With just a little consultation the two adventures could have co-existed and enhanced each other!

 

[JonnyQuest037]

Yes. It's still one of my favorite Trek stories. I'd love to see Mike W. Barr expand the story into a full novel.

I think I actually read this story before I'd ever seen "The Menagerie" or "Where No Man Has Gone Before," so it was my introduction to Pike, Number One, Kelso, and Gary Mitchell.

 

[BillJ]

Yes, loved it, too, but my huge disappointment was that - after numerous little cross-pollinations between the editors and writers from DC, Pocket and FASA of the day - there was no integration at all between the "first missions" celebrated by DC Comics' Annual ("All Those Years Ago") and Pocket's first "giant" paperback ("Enterprise: The First Adventure") for the 20th anniversary. With just a little consultation the two adventures could have co-existed and enhanced each other!

I like that different companies had different interpretations of key events in Star Trek. Makes the universe more interesting, IMO.

 

[Therin of Andor]

I like that different companies had different interpretations of key events in Star Trek. Makes the universe more interesting, IMO.

Sure, but at the time, there had already been cross-pollinated easter eggs that it seemed we could expect the two publishers might purposely work together on this. It was a significant anniversary "event" for the tie-ins and highly anticipated by many of us, but not in any way a crossover.

 

[publiusr]

I have this one as well:
"WAP"

Now, there was a DC two issue encyclopedia that showed Pike in his chair being tortured by a Klingon--and I don't remember than in any DC comics

 

[BillJ]

Now, there was a DC two issue encyclopedia that showed Pike in his chair being tortured by a Klingon--and I don't remember than in any DC comics

Annual #2.

http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Trek_Annual_Vol_1_2

The Klingons lure the Enterprise to Talos IV at the end of the Five-Year Mission. Great story.

 

[Christopher]

I have this one as well:
"WAP"

Oh, yeah, I remember that -- a couple of panels on p. 37 had the alien speaking in balloons that only had the letters "WAP" and a lot of empty space inside them. Given that the aliens had previously "spoken" in voice balloons filled with alien-looking squiggles, I always figured that "WAP" was a placeholder notation for "Weird Alien Print" to be inserted later, but that the final step somehow got skipped on p. 37.