question on DC's TOS series from mid- to late 80's

[RonG]

I'm not sure this question belongs here, but you guys are the only ones who could probably find an answer so..

I'd bought a few issues just the other day, and it seems that many issues take place between STIII (TSFS) and STIV (TVH) with Admiral Kirk's crew on the Excelsior, with Saavik as Science officer, and Spock commanding the USS Surak.

Does anyone know how it was explained in light of STIV's opening scenes on Vulcan?

 

[David cgc]

As I've heard, the final storyline before the movie had Spock getting amnesia and the crew getting in fresh trouble with the Federation council so they had to take the Bird of Prey (which, it turns out, they'd somehow squeezed into the Excelsior's shuttlebay and had been carrying with them the whole time) to Vulcan until the heat went off.

 

[Therin of Andor]

As I've heard, the final storyline before the movie had Spock getting amnesia and the crew getting in fresh trouble with the Federation council so they had to take the Bird of Prey (which, it turns out, they'd somehow squeezed into the Excelsior's shuttlebay and had been carrying with them the whole time) to Vulcan until the heat went off.

http://homepage.mac.com/mmtz/stcomix/dc1tos.html

The amnesiac Spock of ST III was "cured" by a mindmeld with Mirror Spock during a "Mirror Universe" arc. He then moved on to captain his own ship and, every few issues, we'd visit the USS Surak and Spock's crew. In the lead up to ST IV, Captain Styles reclaims USS Excelsior, and Spock's ship encounters "The Doomsday Bug" (and Mirror Spock's cure was undone). We also saw that Janice Rand was working in Admiral Cartwright's office, as seen in her appearance in ST IV. It's all rather clever.

 

[RonG]

thanks for the info! I knew where and who to ask

 

[F. King Daniel]

They did the massive reset button just before STIV did.

I really wish they hadn't....

Spoiler: what they did

...killed off the entire crew of Spock's USS Surak. Yeah, they were a bunch of weirdos, but that was stone cold. Brinks never really learned her lesson.

 

[JD]

Spoiler: previous post's spoiler

They killed them!? I've been very slowly through the DC series on the DVD collection, and I've only read a couple issues with them, but I really liked them. I had assumed/hoped that they had someone else take command of the ship, I didn't expect them to just kill them all.

 

[BillJ]

I think The Doomsday Bug was a much more interesting story than what we got in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. Too bad they couldn't have put it up on the big screen.