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Alan J. Porter's Journal  YEAR: 2251 - Part 2 Cloak & Dagger Stardate: 2396.6 Comic: Star Trek: Early Voyages #5 & 6 Publisher: Marvel Date:June & July -1997 Synopsis: Writers: Dan Abnett & Ian Edginton / Artists: Patrick Zircher & Greg Adams #5 - During a search mission for the missing starship Cortez, the Enterprise discovers a lost Vulcan colony. The crew discover that the colonists are descendants of Vulcans who left their home planet during the time of Surak’s reformation, and are still highly emotional with a taste for violence. A group of the Vulcans had captured the Cortez, installed new weapons they had developed, and use it to attack the Enterprise. #6 - While Number One takes the Enterprise into battle with the captured USS Cortez, Pike and his landing party are held prisoners by the “lost” Vulcans. The colonists’ leader, T’Kell, boasts to Pike that she intends to use one of their new weapons to destroy the planet as a sign of their strength, and then have Pike and the Enterprise take her people back to Vulcan as conquerors, so they can return Vulcan to its pre-Surak culture. To Walk The Night Stardate: Not Given Comic: Star Trek Annual #4 Publisher: DC Comics Date: October 1993 Writer: Michael Jan Friedman, / Artists: Gordon Purcell & Pablo Marcos  Synopsis: During the early part of his career on the Enterprise, under the command of Captain Christopher Pike, Spock is having doubts if a career in Starfleet is his correct path. A mission to answer a distress call from a remote mining colony puts Spock into contact with a new life form that helps him reach a decision about his future. The Flat Gold Forever Stardate: 259.9 Comic: Star Trek: Early Voyages #7 Publisher: Marvel Date: August 1997 Synopsis: Writers: Dan Abnett & Ian Edginton / Artists: Patrick Zircher & Greg Adams  The defeated Klingon commander Kaaj manages to lure Pike away from the Enterprise to a remote planet where he can satisfy his blood-debt. Pike manages to elude Kaaj, whose blood lust intensifies to the point where he is willing to sacrifice his own crew to get to Pike. As Kaaj closes in, the Enterprise arrives and, thanks to a homing device, rescues Pike. Immortal Wounds Stardate: 360.3 Comic: Star Trek: Early Voyages #8 Publisher: Marvel Date: September 1997 Synopsis: Writers: Dan Abnett & Ian Edginton / Artists: Patrick Zircher & Greg Adams Dr Phil Byrce is arrested after being recorded murdering a patient while providing plague relief on the planet of Neyda Prime. The evidence seems damning and Bryce even admits his guilt. Tulok, the local Vulcan ambassador, agrees to represent Brice and, during a mind meld, discovers that since he was a young man Bryce has been unwittingly carrying the psyche of an alien he once treated. After such a long time, the trapped psyche was driven mad. During the mind meld, Tulok isolates and removes the malevolent soul from Bryce. NEXT POST: 2251 - Part 3 Previous Entries --------------- NOTES: (1) This timeline covers Star Trek comics published in the USA and UK between 1967 to 2007 (i.e. from Gold Key to TokyoPop) - it does not include any stories from current Star Trek comics publisher IDW. (2) Click here for the Time Line Introduction explaining the background, definitions and considerations for this Star Trek Comics Time Line project. (3) For more information on the history of Star Trek in comics check out my book STAR TREK: A Comics History. now available in stores. A few days late, but here's the list of four color goodness obtained from the fine folks at Austin Books this week: Comics - Amazing Spider-Man #613 (Marvel) - Black Widow & The Marvel Girls #1 (Marvel) - Buck Rogers #6 (Dynamite) - Captain America: Theater of War #1 (Marvel) - Cinderella: From Fabletown With Love #2 (DC/Vertigo) - Donald Duck #348 (BOOM Kids!) - Fantastic Four #573 (Marvel) - House of Mystery #20 (DC/Vertigo) - Incredibles #3 (BOOM Kids!) - Jack of Fables #40 (DC/Vertigo) - JSA: All Stars #1 (DC) - Marvels Project #4 (Marvel) - Star Trek: Nero #4 (IDW) - Superman: Secret Origin #3 (DC) Trade Paperbacks - Doctor Who: Through Time & Space (IDW) - Eagle Annual - The Comics of the 1960s and in addition thanks to Randy Lander and the crew at the great Rogues' Gallery for copies of: Trade Paperbacks - Chew Volume 1 (Image) - Monster Vol. 13 Cover art for the James Bond comics story, Hot Shot, first published as newspaper strip in the Daily Express from 16th January 1976 to 1st June 1976 Reprints: Denmark  Sweden  this story was also reprinted and published in Norway. Find out more on the history of James Bond in comics, check out JAMES BOND: A history of the illustrated 007, now on sale through a good bookstore near you! It's been a while since I last posted any Rjected Bond Themes - so here's a two-fer. Two of the rejected themes for Quantum of Solace The first as sung by Eva Alma and the second by the Bond grand-dame herself - Shirley Bassey. For those of you who picked up a copy of CARS: Radiator Springs #3 which came out last week, you may have noticed that the conversations in Guido and Luigi's backstory where conducted entirely in Italian - naturally as they were in Italy. In keeping with the movie, where none of Guido's dialog was translated, the comic those scenes appeared free of translation.  A couple of people have asked what the English translation should have been - so here is the relevant dialog from the script in English. ======================================== PAGE 2 Panel 3 LUIGI’S FRIENDS (together) BYE! LUIGI! LUIGI SEE YOU FOR THE NEXT RACE. Panel 5 GUIDO YOU LOOK LIKE YOU NEED SOME HELP Panel 6 LUIGI SO YOU FOLLOW THE FERRARIS TOO MY FRIEND? GUIDO I DREAM OF DOING A PIT STOP FOR A FERRARI IN A REAL RACE ONE DAY! PAGE 1 Panel 1 LUIGI I CAN’T THANK YOU ENOUGH MY FRIEND. SELLING YOUR LITTLE GARAGE SO WE COULD SAIL TO AMERICA. GUIDO IT WAS NOTHING. Panel 2 LUIGI NO IT WAS EVERYTHING. LUIGI (linked) I PROMISE YOU THAT WE WILL MAKE BOTH OUR DREAMS COME TRUE ONE DAY. Panel 5 LUIGI NOW THAT GIVES ME AN IDEA. PAGE 6 Panel 1 LUGI (musical notes around dialog to show that he is singing) IF YOU EVER PLAN TO MOTOR WEST. TRAVEL MY WAY, TAKE THE HIGHWAY THAT IS BEST… LUIGI (linked) NO! I WILL ONLY SPEAKA DE ENGLISH FROM NOW ON. ======================================== A quick summary of various folor color treats selected from Austin Books yesterday. Comics - Amazing Spider-Man #612 (Marvel) - Batman: Streets of Gotham #6 (DC) - Black Knight #1 (Marvel) - Brave & The Bold #29 - Dr. Horrible #1 (Dark Horse) - Echo #16 (Abstract) - Farscape #1 (BOOM!) - NOLA #1 (BOOM!) - Nomad #3 (Marvel) - Star Trek: The Next Generation: Ghosts #1 (IDW) - Victorian Undead #1 (DC/ Wildstorm) - Walt Disney Comics #700 (BOOM Kids!) Graphic Novels - Thunderbirds: Classic comic strips from TV21 (Carlton Books) Thanks to Paul Cornell for pointing this out. The classic Doctor Who story "The Wheel In Space" was released at the same time as Kubrick's cimeamtic masterpiece "2001." - What if... YEAR: 2251 - Part 1 Flesh of My Flesh Stardate: 2252.3 Comic: Star Trek: Early Voyages #1 Publisher: Marvel Date: Feb-1997  Synopsis: Writers: Dan Abnett & Ian Edginton / Artists: Patrick Zircher & Greg Adams The Enterprise is sent to investigate the disappearance of the crew from several Federation vessels and on arrival in the area encounters an unknown organic starship. The unknown creature-ship kidnaps Captain Pike and probes his memories of taking command of the Enterprise from Captain April, selecting his crew, and his first encounter with a young Vulcan cadet called Spock. Meanwhile, Spock discovers that the ship has spread a virus on board the Enterprise that is draining energy from the crew. Spock and Dr Byrce work to find a cure. A rescue team is sent to the ship to find Pike and they encounter the Ngultor, the insectoid crew, who explain that they were thrown off course in a freak warp accident and need the energy from harvesting flesh to power their ship for the long journey home. The landing team is recovered using the tractor beam and the Enterprise uses its torpedo banks to destroy the alien. However, Captain Pike, while now confident in the abilities of his new crew, feels that the victory is something of a hollow one. The Fires of Pharos Stardate: 2378.1 Comic: Star Trek: Early Voyages #2 Publisher: Marvel Date: Mar-1997 Synopsis: Writers: : Dan Abnett & Ian Edginton / Artists: Patrick Zircher & Greg Adams Arriving at Starbase 13, the Enterprise finds itself under attack from a fleet of Klingon vessels. The Klingon commander, Kaaj, hearing of large deposits of dilithium nearby, was determined to claim the valuable haul for the Empire. But when he attacks the newly arrived Enterprise, he finds that he has severely underestimated the capabilities of Captain Pike and his crew. Our Dearest Blood Stardate: 2387.5 Comic: Star Trek: Early Voyages #3 Publisher: Marvel Date: Apr-1997 Synopsis: Writers: Dan Abnett & Ian Edginton / Artists: Patrick Zircher & Greg Adams The crew of the USS Enterprise are invited to Rigel 7 to attend the celebrations surrounding the planet’s entrance into the United Federation of Planets. Pike and his crew are also charged with overseeing the disbanding of the Kaylar warrior caste, one of the requirements of UFP membership. However, not everyone on Rigel is as accepting of the UFP, and the crew suffer casualties when they have to overcome a group of extremists. Nor Iron Bars A Cage Stardate: not given Comic: Star Trek: Early Voyages #4 Publisher: Marvel Date: May 1997  Synopsis: Writers: Dan Abnett & Ian Edginton / Artists: Patrick Zircher & Greg Adams On only her second day on board the Enterprise, Yoeman Mia Colt is suddenly transported, along with Number One, into Captain Pike’s cage on Talos IV. While resisting the Talosian’s mind games, she recalls how she came to be assigned to the Enterprise, and challenges Pike’s preconceptions on his need for a new Yoeman. NEXT POST: 2251 - Part 2 Previous Entries --------------- NOTES: (1) This timeline covers Star Trek comics published in the USA and UK between 1967 to 2007 (i.e. from Gold Key to TokyoPop) - it does not include any stories from current Star Trek comics publisher IDW. (2) Click here for the Time Line Introduction explaining the background, definitions and considerations for this Star Trek Comics Time Line project. (3) For more information on the history of Star Trek in comics check out my book STAR TREK: A Comics History. now available in stores. |
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