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Star Trek Comic Strips (UK) refer to a series of weekly comic strips based on Star Trek released in the United Kingdom from 1969-1973, with two additional stories that appeared in 1978 and 1979 respectively. The entire run comprised 638 pages.

Published concurrent with the US Gold Key comics, these stories appeared in the pages of Joe 90: Top Secret, TV21, and Valiant. Strips appeared as two- and three-page spreads in magazines printing Star Trek and other adventure-based titles. 257 issues were published over the course of five years, with additional stories running in one Joe 90 annual, three TV21 annuals, a Valiant Super Special, two TV Comic annuals and an issue of Radio Times magazine.

The strips were reprinted by IDW Publishing over three volumes beginning in March 2016 in the Star Trek: The Classic UK Comics series; the series was also collected in volumes 10, 20 and 29 of the Star Trek Graphic Novel Collection in 2017 and 2018.

Setting[]

The comics were loosely based on the USS Enterprise during James T. Kirk's first five-year mission. There are several appearances of Dave Bailey, which may place some stories at the beginning of the mission, while others have appearances by Pavel Chekov, placing them toward the latter portion of the mission. Hikaru Sulu is often seen in a blue uniform, but this may be a coloring error; Kirk often wears a red uniform, and Montgomery Scott a blue one.

Guest appearances and cameos included Andorians, Klingons, and Romulans. Aliens were often anthropomorphic animals, including birds, cats, gorillas, fish, and insects.

Essayist Alan J. Porter wrote in the book New Life and New Civilizations: Exploring Star Trek Comics, "The writers and editors who worked on the strip failed to grasp one essential point: that Star Trek is an American show driven by America's vision of itself as pioneers. So instead of a "wagon train to the stars," the British version of Star Trek became, like Dan Dare, more a "Royal Air Force in space."

Summaries[]

Untitled weekly story arcs[]

Arc # Dates published Stardate Periodical Pages Writer Artist
1 18 January 196922 February 1969 24.09.45 – 25.00.10 (2265-2266) Joe 90: Top Secret #1-6 12 Angus Allan Harry F. Lindfield
2 1 March 196922 March 1969 20, 16.45 – 20.23.54 (2266) Joe 90: Top Secret #7-10 8 Angus Allan Harry F. Lindfield
3 29 March 196919 April 1969 unknown (2265-2266) Joe 90: Top Secret #11-14 8 Angus Allan Harry F. Lindfieldz
4 26 April 196917 May 1969 unknown (2266) Joe 90: Top Secret #15-18 8 Angus Allan Harry F. Lindfield
5 24 May 196914 June 1969 25:11:23 (2265-2266) Joe 90: Top Secret #19-22 8 Angus Allan Harry F. Lindfield
6 21 June 19699 August 1969 48 12 46 (2266) Joe 90: Top Secret #23-30 16 Angus Allan Harry F. Lindfield
7 16 August 19696 September 1969 24.12.17 (2266) Joe 90: Top Secret #31-34 8 Angus Allan Harry F. Lindfield
8 27 September 19691 November 1969 unknown (2267-2269) TV21 & Joe 90 #1-6 12 unknown Harry F. Lindfield
9 8 November 19696 December 1969 unknown (2268-2269) TV21 & Joe 90 #7-11 10 unknown Harry F. Lindfield
10 13 December 196917 January 1970 unknown (2268-2269) TV21 & Joe 90 #12-17 12 unknown Harry F. Lindfield
11 24 January 197028 February 1970 unknown (2266-2267) TV21 & Joe 90 #18-23 12 unknown Harry F. Lindfield
12 7 March 197025 April 1970 unknown (2267-2268) TV21 & Joe 90 #24-31 16 unknown Jim Baikie
13 2 May 197013 June 1970 unknown (2268-2269) TV21 & Joe 90 #32-38 14 unknown Mike Noble
14 20 June 197025 July 1970 unknown (2266-2269) TV21 & Joe 90 #39-44 15 unknown Mike Noble
15 1 August 197012 September 1970 unknown (2267-2269) TV21 & Joe 90 #45-51 21 unknown Mike Noble
16 19 September 197024 October 1970 unknown (2267-2269) TV21 & Joe 90 #52-57 18 unknown Mike Noble
17 31 October 197012 December 1970 unknown (2267-2269) TV21 & Joe 90 #58-64 21 unknown Ron Turner, Harold Johns
18 19 December 197013 February 1971 unknown (2267-2269) TV21 & Joe 90 #65-73 27 unknown Harold Johns
19 20 February 197113 March 1971 unknown TV21 & Joe 90 #74-77 12 unknown Carlos Pino, Vicente Alcázar
20 20 March 197110 April 1971 unknown TV21 & Joe 90 #78-81 12 unknown Carlos Pino, Vicente Alcázar
21 17 April 197112 June 1971 unknown TV21 & Joe 90 #82-90 27 unknown Carlos Pino, Vicente Alcázar
22 19 June 197110 July 1971 unknown TV21 & Joe 90 #91-94 12 unknown Carlos Pino, Vicente Alcázar
23 17 July 197121 August 1971 unknown (2267-2269) TV21 & Joe 90 #95-100 18 unknown Carlos Pino, Vicente Alcázar
24 28 August 197125 September 1971 unknown TV21 & Joe 90 #101-105 15 unknown Carlos Pino, Vicente Alcázar
25 2 October 19719 October 1971 unknown Valiant & TV21 #1-2 4 unknown John Stokes
26 16 October 197111 December 1971 unknown (2267-2269) Valiant & TV21 #3-11 18 unknown John Stokes
27 18 December 197122 January 1972 unknown (2267-2269) Valiant & TV21 #12-17 12 unknown John Stokes
28 29 January 197226 February 1972 unknown (2267-2269) Valiant & TV21 #18-22 10 unknown John Stokes
29 4 March 197213 May 1972 unknown Valiant & TV21 #23-33 22 unknown John Stokes
30 20 May 197215 July 1972 unknown (2267-2269) Valiant & TV21 #34-42 18 unknown John Stokes
31 22 July 197219 August 1972 unknown Valiant & TV21 #43-47 10 unknown John Stokes
32 26 August 197221 October 1972 unknown (2267-2269) Valiant & TV21 #48-56 18 unknown John Stokes
33 28 October 19729 December 1972 unknown Valiant & TV21 #57-63 14 unknown John Stokes
34 16 December 197217 February 1973 unknown (2267-2269) Valiant & TV21 #64-73 20 unknown John Stokes
35 24 February 197316 June 1973 unknown (2267-2269) Valiant & TV21 #74-90 34 unknown John Stokes
36 23 June 19736 October 1973 unknown (2267-2269) Valiant & TV21 #91-106 32 unknown John Stokes
37 13 October 197329 December 1973 unknown Valiant & TV21 #107-118 24 unknown John Stokes

Annual stories[]

Story Title Dates Stardate Periodical Pages Writer Artist
Untitled 1st 1970 20:0605 – 20:1507 (2265-2266) Joe 90 Top Secret Annual 6 unknown Ron Turner
Untitled 2nd 27 June 1970 3715.3 (2267) Radio Times 1 Max Ehrlich Frank Bellamy
Captives in Space 1971 unknown (2265-2268) TV21 Annual (1st of 3 stories) 6 unknown unknown
Planet of Rejects 1971 unknown (2267-2269) TV21 Annual (2nd of 3 stories) 8 unknown unknown
Gateway to the Future 1971 unknown (2265-2267) TV21 Annual (3rd of 3 stories) 5 unknown unknown
Untitled 6th 1972 unknown (2265-2270) TV21 Annual 4 unknown unknown
Untitled 7th 1972 unknown (2265-2267) Valiant Summer Special 6 unknown John Stokes
Planet of the Dead 1973 unknown (2265-2268) TV21 Annual (1st of 2 stories) 7 Jack Sutter Jim Baikie
What is This Thing Called Spock? 1973 unknown (2265-2266) TV21 Annual (2nd of 2 stories) 7 Jack Sutter Jim Baikie
The Gods Have Come! 1978 32-19-25 (2267-2268) Mighty TV Comic Annual 5 unknown John Canning
Untitled 11th 1979 unknown (2267-2269) Mighty TV Comic Annual 5 unknown John Canning

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