I went to see Warlords of Atlantis on the 19th at the cinema; the second feature ( shown first was The Crime Busters, a Terence Hill/Bud Spencer vehicle aka I due superpiedi quasi piatti ). I still like all those things, probably even the Italian movie.
My diary also indicates that repeats of Star Trek's first season started on the Friday of that week, in the BBC's 1969 transmission order. Coincidentally, today I'm reviewing the second Eaglemoss volume of Marvel Trek reprints. In the last post, I discussed the first seven issues of the very early 80s comic series.
8.The Expansionist Syndrome: another Cockrum story and one reprinted in Valour/Future Tense. The Enterprise discovers a planet occupied by warring races, the Mox and the Orgs. The latter are descendants of Earthmen who fled the Eugenics War, like Khan ( "Khaaaaannn!!"). The Mox are no dissimilar to the Sidrian Hunters from the second Shi'Ar epic. I also really like the pixelated transporter effect.
Crewman DiFalco is a woman (as in ST The Motion Picture) but she was a man two issues ago.
9.Experiment in Vengeance was featured in the 1981 Summer Special. The USS Endeavour has been missing for 22 years. Kirk's old flame Karen is the daughter of an unscrupulous scientist who experimented with transporters. The Endeavour is infested by a gestalt entity comprised of experimental subjects. There's an Andorian - Lt. Theras- among the Enterprise crew.The cover looks like Jim Starlin's work to me.
10.Domain of the Dragon God cover-features "Spock the Barbarian". It's a boring story about violating the Prime Directive by Michael Fleisher and Argentine artist Leo Duranona.
11.Like a Woman Scorned by Pasko, Joe Brozowski (who went on to draw Firestorm and the Milestone Xombi series) and and Tom Palmer. Scotty's old flame and her Svengali-like cult leader are brought on board to escape Berthold Radiation ( a reference to This Side of Paradise). The crew are adversely affected by her psychic powers and the engineer's Scottish folklore fears haunt the ship. Scotty's crushes on Carolyn Palamas and stunning Mira Romaine are also referenced. here and in the next issue, likenesses are very good
12. Eclipse of Reason: plotted and scripted by Brave and Bold's Alan Brennert and drawn by Luke McDonnell, this was the cover-featured story from the 1981 summer special. It reminds me of Is There In Truth No Beauty?
Janice Rand, who transferred out of her post as Kirk's yeoman, after the events of Charlie X, The Enemy Within and Miri, ( but actually a budget cut victim in real life) has married a mental energy-being from Phaeton. Their ship penetrates the energy barrier from Where No Man has Gone Before and the alien crew are driven insane. They go on a suicide run to their home world but they are rescued and will be transferred to the asylum planet from Whom Gods Destroy. Can Janice "stand being just a transporter chief again?" Yes, as we see in 80s Star Trek movies numbered IV and V.
13. All the Infinite Ways is by Pasko, Brozowski and Palmer. It's set on the hot springs spa planet Hephaestus and the Klingons are being villainous toward its simian natives. McCoy's estrangement from his daughter Joanna is ended after the heroic sacrifice of her Vulcan fiancé. Joanna was intended to be the Irina character in The Way To Eden. Oh brother.
This wasn't a story I particularly enjoyed.
The Gold Key reprint, The Cosmic Cavemen is another Arnold Drake/Alfred Giolitti adventure where Scotty falls for a "cave queen", the priestess Lok. It's pretty but not very memorable, apart from Spock's obnoxious, out-of-character response to Lok.
This book had some nostalgic memories for me and the stories were quite like those you might find in the original tv series. Considering the restrictions of the licence, the creators worked in a surprising number of callbacks to TOS ( The Original Series). Next time, we'll look at the final volume of these Marvel tales.
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