The Gold Key comics are part of Star Trek Adventures continuity

[Extrocomp]

I found a funny reference to the Gold Key comics and UK comics in Modiphius' Shackleton Expanse Campaign Guide.

Admiral James T. Kirk, recording

I'd visited nearby sectors as captain of the Enterprise, though the star systems had different designations in those days. Early space pioneers like Wood, Zaccara, Giolitti, Lindfield and Angus chose whimsical names for these distant systems to pay homage to ancient astronomers who, upon seeing other galaxies in their telescopes, had assumed them to be star clusters or nebulae within this Galaxy. No one bothered to rechristen them for years, since no one had yet gone there - at least, not before the Enterprise.

The energy barrier prohibits extragalactic travel, as every first-year cadet knows. So, I chuckle when I read my mission logs citing Galaxy M-674, Galaxy 517, Galaxy Z-21, Galaxy Alpha, Galaxy Nabu, Galaxy Zelta, Galaxy Telpha Z, Galaxy Zekbran, and so on. Galaxies galore - and all, of course, part of our own Milky Way, which is not extragalactic at all. Those pioneers had quite a sense of humor, which is evident in the droll names they dubbed the worlds they found: Kelly Green, Metamorpha, Numero Uno, Questionmark, Nova-Thirteen...

It's no wonder the details of our voyages tend to be embellished. I've even heard rumors that the Enterprise destroyed all life on K-G just to eradicate "killer cannibal plants." Bones and I enjoyed a good laugh and a good brandy over that one.

Also:

The U.S.S. Key of Gold may be an old design, but she's one tall ship indeed; Captain Whitman should be proud. Registry J90TV21, Valiant-class.

 

[Markonian]

Wow! I love it when Trek tie-in media embrace rather than ignore each other.
Why is the ship named Key of Gold instead of Goldkey - is it a legal issue?

 

[James Swallow]

I sense the Hand of Ward in this...

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Why is the ship named Key of Gold

It is perhaps not infinitely improbable that it's an allusion to the ship Zaphod Beeblebrox stole.

 

[Jim Johnson]

I sense the Hand of Ward in this...

Dayton, indirectly. He introduced me to Rich Handley, the editor of the Eaglemoss graphic novel collection (among many other things) and I asked Rich to write that sidebar for the Shackleton book, tying in the Gold Key comics.

 

[Jim Johnson]

Wow! I love it when Trek tie-in media embrace rather than ignore each other.
Why is the ship named Key of Gold instead of Goldkey - is it a legal issue?

No legal issue. Rich just didn't want to be too completely on the nose with the name of the ship.
I love cross-pollinating with other licensors. STA has connections to IDW comics, Star Trek Online, Star Trek Timelines, the novels, previous Star Trek RPGs, and more to come (hopefully!).

 

[JonnyQuest037]

Rich is a friend of mine (we've worked together on a couple of book projects he edited), so I sent him a link to this thread. He got a kick out of it.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Between this and Scotty's blond phase in Indistinguishable From Magic awhile ago, it's a good time to be a Gold Key Trek fan!

 

[publiusr]

Scotty was working with high-test peroxide for a Beal pressure-fed rocket demonstration, so…

 

[Enterprise1701]

Hmm. What is this Valiant class supposed to be? I presume it is not the spin-off class / cosmetic skin of the Defiant class in the 25th century of Star Trek Online.

 

[Avro Arrow]

Hmm. What is this Valiant class supposed to be?

I don't know what it looks like, but I know it has flames shooting out of the warp nacelles!