The comics are now canon

[Therin of Andor]

i.e. one of the transportees not making it 'Cupcake knew the risks...'

Ah, but Cupcake/Hendorff is needed for the next movie.

If the experiment had caused a power drain to the ship and fried the circuits in the relay stations I probably wouldn't have as much of a problem with it.

And the "Tribbles" comic duology is only half done, so far. They may well be setting up a transwarp-beaming long-range transporter experiment failure for the next issue, or indeed the next movie.

 

[LtGarak]

Silly question, but does anyone know if any of the comics besides IDW been put into one volume? I've been picking up these on amazon, and I don't even have a complete list of what's been anthologized or not.
Thanks in advance.

 

[Christopher]

Silly question, but does anyone know if any of the comics besides IDW been put into one volume? I've been picking up these on amazon, and I don't even have a complete list of what's been anthologized or not.
Thanks in advance.

All Trek comics except IDW's and TokyoPop's were collected on a DVD-ROM from GITCorp, Star Trek: The Complete Comic Book Collection. The only things it's missing are the two Marvel Trek/X-Men crossovers and a Klingon-language variant of a Starfleet Academy issue.

For trade-paperback collections of various comics (not counting UK/overseas publications):

http://www.startrekcomics.info/golden.html
http://www.startrekcomics.info/checker.html
http://www.startrekcomics.info/marvel1pb.html
http://www.startrekcomics.info/dc1tostpb.html
http://www.startrekcomics.info/dc2tostpb.html
http://www.startrekcomics.info/dc2tngtpb.html
http://www.startrekcomics.info/wildstormvoytpb.html
http://www.startrekcomics.info/wildstormtngtpb.html
http://www.startrekcomics.info/wildstormsttpb.html
http://www.startrekcomics.info/tokyopopult.html
http://www.startrekcomics.info/idwarchivestpb.html
http://www.startrekcomics.info/idwomnibustpb.html
http://www.startrekcomics.info/idwclassicstpb.html

 

[Therin of Andor]

(not counting UK/overseas publications)

"Star Trek: Divided We Fall" was an uncollected Wildstorm TNG/DS9 mini-series, but it was collected in several foreign trades, including as "Symbiose" by Dino Comics.

 

[RPJOB]

The shuttles almost certainly have a matter/antimatter reactors and warp drive. If they didn't, the movie woud have been about Kirk growing up on Medical Shuttle 47.

But a shuttle power source would hardly be described as providing prohibitive amounts of power. It's something that could be built within a house or a apartment building, providing long distance beaming from the comfort of your own home. Strip the shuttle gown to the parts that are only needed to actually provide the beaming an it's a fairly small unit.

Also, don't forget that the shuttle was older than the ones we saw on TOS. If Scotty is bundled up against the cold while he's indoors and is running on very limited rations it's unlikely that Starfleet also provided him with the newest and most advanced shuttle they had available.

So, take an old shuttle, apply Scotty's software fix (we didn't see them make any mechanical adjustments) and you too can beam across lightyears. It's unlikely that Scotty used the same beaming tech as Bok did. He's not the sort that would be satisfied with a system that was likely to kill you or scramble your DNA each time it was used. Like time travel, there's probably many, many different ways to accomplish the same thing.