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Funny, odd, amazing things in the ST Comics

NCC-73515 said:
Issue 40 of the second DC TOS monthly series is supposed to be followed by TUC, in which the end of the A's missions is made clear.
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Uhh, no. Issues 35-40 showed Sulu's first mission in command of the Excelsior, while TUC opened with the Excelsior completing a 3-year survey mission under Sulu's command. So there are at least 3 years between "The Tabukan Syndrome" and TUC, and the subsequent DC issues take place in that interval.

NCC-73515 said:
"Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country takes place after these events."
https://www.startrekcomics.info/dc2tos.html

They've been right about movie placement in the series so far...
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Three or more years after is still "after."
 
then why did they write that to issue 40, when they could've put it right after the cage? XD

imagine that:
Gold Key #1, 1967. Spock's hideous globe falls victim to the Enterprise's laser beams on its mission of total destruction. Star Trek Nemesis takes place after these events.
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NCC-73515 said:
then why did they write that to issue 40, when they could've put it right after the cage? XD
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It is misleadingly phrased, yes. I guess they meant to convey that it sets up TUC by showing Sulu taking command of the Excelsior, but they put it badly.
 
as I wrote, their previous placements are spot on, placing the movies exactly where they fit.

When is TUC set then, if not between 40 and 41?
 
NCC-73515 said:
as I wrote, their previous placements are spot on, placing the movies exactly where they fit.

When is TUC set then, if not between 40 and 41?
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As I said, TUC is set after the entire run of DC volume 2. There's a gap of at least six years between TFF and TUC, and DC V2 picks up right after TFF and does not run long enough to fill that entire gap. There are only 12 distinct movie-era storylines (ranging from 1 to 5 issues) in the comic after "The Tabukan Syndrome," which isn't nearly enough to fill the three or more years between it and TUC.

After all, the makers of the comic knew that the crew would retire after TUC, so naturally they chose to keep the series in the lengthy gap between TFF and TUC instead of moving beyond it. And once Margaret Clark took over as editor, she gradually shifted its focus from the movie era back to the TV series era.


As far as I know, the chronologically last story in DC's TOS run is "A Question of Loyalty" in Star Trek Special #2, which features Valeris as a third-year cadet, putting it a year or more before TUC.
 
Christopher said:
As I said, TUC is set after the entire run of DC volume 2. There's a gap of at least six years between TFF and TUC, and DC V2 picks up right after TFF and does not run long enough to fill that entire gap. There are only 12 distinct movie-era storylines (ranging from 1 to 5 issues) in the comic after "The Tabukan Syndrome," which isn't nearly enough to fill the three or more years between it and TUC.

After all, the makers of the comic knew that the crew would retire after TUC, so naturally they chose to keep the series in the lengthy gap between TFF and TUC instead of moving beyond it. And once Margaret Clark took over as editor, she gradually shifted its focus from the movie era back to the TV series era.


As far as I know, the chronologically last story in DC's TOS run is "A Question of Loyalty" in Star Trek Special #2, which features Valeris as a third-year cadet, putting it a year or more before TUC.
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When I bound my collection into hardcover, I put DC's TUC adaptation after issue #72, and closed the penultimate volume with that.

My final volume opened with the flashback stories from 73-80, followed by the Specials, then the TNG crossovers as a sort of appendix -- The Modala Imperative, the 1995 Convergence annuals, then ending the volume with the paper cover newsstand version of GENERATIONS (instead of my cardstock cover version).
 
Donald G said:
When I bound my collection into hardcover, I put DC's TUC adaptation after issue #72, and closed the penultimate volume with that.
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Makes sense, as #72 was the last post-ST V comic in the DC run other than annuals/specials.

Donald G said:
My final volume opened with the flashback stories from 73-80
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I've never thought of them as flashback stories, since the comic never returned to the movie era after #72. They were more like a soft reboot of the series to focus permanently on the pilot/5-year mission era, with Kevin Ryan replacing Howard Weinstein as the regular writer after #75. But the series was cancelled after the first 5YM story arc.
 
DC TOS monthly 2 #61 Door in the Cage is great!

SF Medical can now give Pike a functional body again, so Spock returns to Talos to offer Pike a new life back in SF - but he has built a home there over the last 20 years...

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The much funnier Kobayashi Maru cheat that I think also appeared in a novel and was an option in the SFA game:

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This could be an early executive shuttle or runabout

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A medical ship that looks almost like a Daedalus, but apparently without the neck

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I was surprised to see that level of sexual humor in a Trek comic! :D
He's probing her, and her back is snapped back :D

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NCC-73515 said:
The much funnier Kobayashi Maru cheat that I think also appeared in a novel and was an option in the SFA game:
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Yes, it's an adaptation of the version from Julia Ecklar's novel The Kobayashi Maru, with the dialogue cut down slightly for the comics page.


NCC-73515 said:
This could be an early executive shuttle or runabout
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It's from a 1996 comic, I believe, so it's clearly intended to be a TOS-era antecedent of the runabout design.
 
NCC-73515 said:
The much funnier Kobayashi Maru cheat that I think also appeared in a novel and was an option in the SFA game
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It would've been nigh-impossible to integrate into the actual video game in a way that came across (well, maybe not), but I liked Diane Carey reworking that scene in the novelization to turn "beating the Kobayashi Maru" into a pretty kick-ass action sequence rather than the biggest anti-climax of the game. As in the game, Kirk and Chekov found out Forester was trying to emulate Kirk's success, but this time they didn't let him get off so easy, so Kirk re-reprogramed the simulator so that, rather than be cowed by his reputation, the three Klingon ships would be stepping all over each other to be the one to kill the Legendary Captain Forester, and that was the vulnerability that would allow him to potentially win the simulation. And then there was a fun bit with the Klingon equivalent to the Excelsior class being thrown in at the end just as a cherry on top.
 
I've encountered the worst comic so far. How this got past decision-makers and actually printed is beyond me.

It begins so well, with this amazing cover by Dan Curry!
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I'm gonna put these hideous examples behind spoiler tags, to avoid Medusan effects, and because there are a lot of them...

Not in the mood to draw? Have everyone be in shadows.
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Details are not required. Outlines are enough.
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And who needs backgrounds? Drop your pen while you're at it.
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Don't wanna draw faces? Let a kid scribble all over them.
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There really is no need to go beyond rough outlines. Just leave it all half-started.
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To end with something good though, this is wonderful:

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I'm told there's one where Picard's gang meets Santa Clause? EDIT. Just read an abridged version. Good God, that's the hardest ive laughed in a while. If I could link I would.
 
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I know it's not a perfect match, but I find it interesting how much the side view of the Titan from the new Picard: Season 3 trailer reminds me of the Surak from the old DC comics.

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Avro Arrow said:
I know it's not a perfect match, but I find it interesting how much the side view of the Titan from the new Picard: Season 3 trailer reminds me of the Surak from the old DC comics.

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Rather, the Titan-A, apparently. Since the Luna-class Titan is canonical courtesy of Lower Decks, and this is a couple of decades later.

It's confusing keeping track of all these simultaneous Trek series in different parts of the timeline.
 
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