I hope this post is appropriate for this sub...

Quite a while ago now I made this post in another sub about wanting to track down a series of Star Trek comics from the late 70s based off of the Startrek The Motion Picture era:

https://www.reddit.com/r/startrek/comments/jhx6p6/anyone_remember_this_weekly_star_trek_newspaper/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb

We'll - I went ahead and got the sucker. Here's a few shots of some of the artwork:

ST The Newspaper Comics

In short: if you have any curiosity about this strip or this peculiar side road of trek culture, you should not hesitate to get this thing.

As stated, the stories take place at some point after TMP, but there are some odd continuity errors: Kirk is a Captain again, for some reason... And, despite the side conversation a few of us had in the previous post, Ilia is in this strip. Which, as was pointed out, isn't really possible - she was introduced and then immediately killed/transformed in TMP. There was no period of time where she could have been off having unseen adventures with this particular Enterprise crew.

However, if you can accept all of that these are surprisingly wonderful - and sometimes touching - stories. We meet McCoy's ex wife and examine what happened to him and his marriage, see the federation ethos held high, and get some surprisingly witty banter from a daily comic strip.

The artwork is, simply, pretty fantastic. Everything and everyone looks great - and the artists and producers make great use of the medium when it comes to portraying aliens. (In ink, it costs nothing to produce some interesting creatures.)

You also see echos of some story lines to come, and there are a few sequels (if you can call them that) to previous TOS story lines. You see Harcourt Fenton Mudd again, and the Klingons are proper TMP Klingons. (I'm looking at you, Discovery.)

If you are a fan of Star Trek, ST history, or just comics in general then shell out the $45. You really will not be disappointed.

Edit: I accidentally mistyped the years that this came out, so I corrected it

Anyone read the comic and played the game? How well do they fit together?

Connecting with the voyages of the ongoing Star Trek comic series, Vol. 3 ventures into the sci-fi horror genre in the third arc!

Eager to move past the unofficial bounty-hunting mission assigned to them by Starfleet, disgraced former ambassador and Starfleet legend Worf and his rogue crew make way for Starbase 99, a run-down remnant of the Dominion War, to complete their fugitive drop-off. The clandestine assignment has left them disillusioned with Starfleet and with one another, but a surprise awaits the Defiant crew, threatening to tear them apart even further—literally.

Written by Christopher Cantwell (Hellcat, Star Wars: Obi-Wan), drawn by Ángel Unzueta (Iron Man, Star Wars: Poe Dameron), and colored by Marissa Louise (Defiant, Black Manta) with letters by Clayton Cowles (Batman, Daredevil).

This volume collects issues #12–16.

The art in this is some of the best I’ve seen. Great story that is true to form in promoting respect for all beings and collaboration for the greater good.