Template:Realworld "Uhura's Story"
While the Excelsior orbits a planet on the verge of breaking up, Uhura recounts an early mission aboard the Enterprise.
Background information
- Framing sequence takes place between the events of Star Trek III: The Search for Spock and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.
- Flashback sequence takes place around stardate 1297.80, preceding "Where No Man Has Gone Before" (TOS).
- This issue is replete with art department gaffes:
- Sulu mans the Excelsior's navigator's position in this issue, while Sanderson mans the helm.
- Saavik, like Sanderson, is shown wearing commander or lieutenant commander's rank insignia, despite her rank of lieutenant. (The artwork makes it difficult to be certain.) Therefore, Sanderson may hold any one of these ranks.
- The shuttlecraft named "Keppler" in this issue features the call-letters of the Galileo (NCC-1701/7).
- In the flashback, Enterprise officers wear branch-specific department colors, although it is no later than 2265.
- Uniforms from both eras show up in some of the same panels.
- The Klingon commander bears a seemingly "type-2" (Human-like) appearance, except with pointed ears.
- The sentries on Tally wear thick armored suits unlike anything seen elsewhere in any Trek episode, movie or comic.
- Kirk and Spock discuss a "treaty" which led to a "cessation of hostilities many years ago." This could not have been the Organian Peace Treaty (2267).
Creators
- Based on Star Trek created by Gene Roddenberry
- Writer: Paul Kupperberg
- Artists:
- Carmine Infantino (pencil art)
- Ricardo Villagran (inking)
- Michele Wolfman (color art)
- Agustin Mas (letter art)
- Cover artists for this release have not yet been identified.
- Editor: Robert Greenberger
Characters
- Canon characters listed below are linked to the main article about them. Non-canon characters are not linked, but those that recurred, appearing or being mentioned in more than one story, are defined further in DC TOS volume 1 characters.
- James T. Kirk
- Spock
- Leonard McCoy
- Montgomery Scott
- Hikaru Sulu
- Uhura
- Saavik
- Lieutenant Commander Gary Mitchell
- Enterprise navigator, second officer
- Lieutenant Lee Kelso
- Enterprise helmsman
- Sanderson
- Excelsior helm officer (rank: Commander or Lt.-Commander--see notes)
- Ensign Nelson
- Enterprise crew-member
- Parker
- Enterprise communications officer
- Unnamed Klingon commander
- Kentak and other unnamed Klingon sentries on Tally
References
USS Enterprise
USS Excelsior
Class F shuttlecraft
- Benito's
- Culinary establishment on Deneb V
- Cryblon System
- Deneb V
- USS Enterprise
- Constitution-class starship
- USS Excelsior
- Federation starship
- Keppler
- Class F shuttlecraft assigned to Enterprise. Most likely a misspelling of "Kepler".
- Tally
- Cryblon IV, fourth planet in the Cryblon system
- USS Wilson
- Federation survey ship
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