Since Giolitti didn't have a publicity photo of James Doohan, early issues of the series had Mr. Scott drawn differently.
[1] In the 1970s, Gold Key's parent company, Western Publishing, issued several volumes of The Enterprise Logs, republishing selected stories in omnibus form.
These tales take place during a second five-year mission of Kirk and the Enterprise that would have been featured in the never-produced Star Trek: Phase II TV series.
[5] From 1979 to 1983, the Los Angeles Times Syndicate produced a daily and Sunday comic strip based upon Star Trek.
[6] Thomas Warkentin, Sharman DiVono, Ron Harris, Larry Niven, Martin Pasko, Padraic Shigetani, Bob Meyers, Ernie Colón, Gerry Conway and Dick Kulpa wrote and illustrated these stories.
[7][8] The US strip had 20 stories over its four-year run, some with titles:[6] In 1977, before home video was widely available, Mandala Productions and Bantam Books published books based upon The Original Series that included direct adaptations of actual color television episode frames (with word balloons) in comics format.
The plot of the 1984 DC series picked up immediately after Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home took place right after Star Trek III: The Search for Spock left off, so the series wiped the slate clean by having Kirk lose command of the Excelsior and Spock return to the state he was in at the end of III.
The first series ended in 1988 after 56 issues, 3 annuals, and two film adaptations, when Paramount required all tie-in licenses to be renegotiated.
Star Trek: The Next Generation novelist Michael Jan Friedman wrote most of this series, which ran until 1996.
Marvel (under the "Marvel/Paramount comics" imprint) published various one-shots and the quarterly Star Trek Unlimited series, which covered TOS and TNG.
[16][17] They also introduced two new ongoing series, Star Trek: Early Voyages, which dealt with Christopher Pike's adventures as captain of the Enterprise, and Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, which dealt with a group of cadets, including Deep Space Nine's Ferengi, Nog.
The different series turned out popular, with Starfleet Academy and Early Voyages registering strong sales.
Writers included Nathan Archer, Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith,[20] Keith R.A. DeCandido,[21] Scott Ciencin,[22] Kevin J. Anderson,[23] K. W. Jeter,[24] John Ordover and David Mack.
In October 2004, Tokyopop announced plans to publish an anthology of Next Generation-based stories presented in the style of Japanese manga.
[28] IDW's first title was Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Space Between, a six-issue limited series launched January 2007.
In 2009, IDW published Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, written by Andy Schmidt and based on the second Star Trek movie, and the only movie with the Original Crew that had never previously been in comic form, as the film's release came during the gap between Marvel's and DC's licenses.
[30] In September 2011, IDW began publishing a new ongoing Star Trek series set in the continuity of the 2009 film.
In 2014, IDW worked with Harlan Ellison to publish a graphic novel based on his original screenplay for "The City on the Edge of Forever".
[31] To coincide with the launch of Star Trek: Discovery, IDW published a 4-issue prequel series in 2018 entitled "The Light of Kahless," chronicling T'Kuvma's backstory and rise to Klingon warrior.