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STAR TREK: THE STARDATE COLLECTION

Special thanks to Risa Kessler and John Van Citters ofCBS Consumer Products for their invaluable assistance.

STAR TREK: THE STARDATE COLLECTION, VOLUME 1. OCTOBER 2013.FIRST PRI NTING. & 2013 CBS Studios Inc. STAR TREK and related marksare trademarks of CBS Studios Inc. 2013 Paramount Pictures Corporation.All Rights Reserved. Photos courtesy of CBS Consumer Products. IDW Publishingauthorized user. 2013 Idea and Design Works, LLC. All Rights Reserved. IDWPublishing, a division of Idea and Design Works, LLC. Editorial offices: 5080Santa Fe Street, San Diego, CA 92109. Any similarities to persons living or deadare purely coincidental. With the exception of art work used for review purposes,none of the contents of this publication may be reprinted without the permissionof Idea and Design Works, LLC. Printed in Korea.IDW Publishing does not read or accept unsolicited submissions of ideas, stories,or artwork.

Originally published by IDW Publishing as STAR TREK: CREW issues #15,STAR TREK ALIEN SPOTLIGHT: VULCANS, and by Marvel Comics as STAR TREK:

EARLY VOYAGES issues #16.

Star Trek created byGene Roddenberry

Ted Adams, CEO & PublisherGreg Goldstein, President & COORobbie Robbins, EVP/Sr. Graphic ArtistChris Ryall, Chief Creative Officer/Editor-in-ChiefMatthew Ruzicka, CPA, Chief Financial Officer

Alan Payne, VP of SalesDirk Wood, VP of MarketingLorelei Bunjes, VP of Digital Services

IDW founded by Ted Adams, Alex Garner,Kris Oprisko, and Robbie Robbins

ISBN: 978-1-61377-711-4

Editorial Assistanceand Annotations byScott andDavid Tipton

Collection Edits byJustin Eisingerand

Alonzo Simon

Collection Design byTom B. Long

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TABLE OF CONTENTSIntroduction by Scott and David Tipton.....................................4

A Change In Command .............................................................6

Crew .............................................................................................8Written and Illustrated by John ByrneColors by Lovern Kindzierski and Mario BoonLetters by Neil UyetakeEdits by Chris Ryall

Alien Spotlight: Vulcans ................................................128Written by James Patrick

Art by Josep Maria BeroyColors by Mario BoonColor Assist by Andrew ElderLetters by Chris MowryEdits by Andrew Steven Harris

Early Voyages #16 .........................................................152Written by Dan Abnett and Ian EdgintonPencils by Patrick ZircherInks by Greg AdamsColors by Marie Javins

Letters by Janice ChiangEdits by Bobbie Chase

Interview with John Byrne ..........................................316


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HAILING FREQUENCIES OPEN

For nearly as long as there has been Star Trek, there have beenStar Trek comic books. Just before the original series secondseason in the fall of 1967, the first Star Trekcomic hit newsstands,from publisher Gold Key, a division of Western Publishing. Sincethen, Star Trekcomics have been published nearly continuouslyfrom a variety of different publishers, whether it was Gold Keysinaugural series, the relatively brief tenures by Marvel andWildstorm, or the much longer and better-known series fromDC Comics and IDW Publishing.

The simplest thing to do would be to reprint them all inorder of publication, starting with that first Gold Keyissue and ending with the most recent release fromStar Trekscurrent home here at IDW.

So naturally, were not going to do that.

Instead, were going to try something a lot morechallenging, and certainly a lot more fun, andmore in the spirit of the amazing shareduniverse created by Gene Roddenberry and the

cadre of writers, directors, actors, andtechnicians responsible for the six televisionseries and 12 feature films that make upthe world of Star Trek. Our intention withthe Stardate Collectionis to reprint allthe TREK comics not by publicationdate, but by stardate. Meaning wepresent these stories in the order in

which they rea lly happened.Because whats the point ofinventing your own history if you

cant put it to the test?

Will it all line up perfectly?Well find out together.Everybody to your stations,now; full impulse power.

Scott TiptonDavid Tipton

May 2013

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It was all just to save money, really. But it wound up being one of the most important things to happenearly in the development of the Star Trekuniverse.

Lets go back a step.

By this point, most Star Trekfans have heard the story: how NBC looked at the first pilot for theseries, The Cage, starring Jeffrey Hunter as Captain Christopher Pike and Majel Barrett as hisfirst officer Number One, and concluded it was too cerebral, and refused to greenlight theseries.

However, recognizing the quality of the pilot, andacknowledging that they themselves had chosen which scriptto produce, NBC gave producer Gene Roddenberry a secondchance at a pilot (something thats practically unheard ofeven today, some five decades later). Roddenberry recasteveryone except supporting player Leonard Nimoy as Mr.Spock and introduced William Shatner as Captain JamesT. Kirk in the second pilot, Where No Man Has GoneBefore, which was met with a much more positive

reception by NBC, who promptly approved the pilotto series.

That left Roddenberry with the first, tremendouslyexpensive pilot episode The Cage lying on theshelf, presumably unusable, since it featured analmost entirely different cast. But rather thanabandon it, Roddenberry cannily repurposedthe majority of the footage from The Cageinto Star Treksonly two-part episode, TheMenagerie, which utilized the material in

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flashback as Mr. Spock is court-martialed for stealing the Enterpriseinorder to return his now horribly crippled former captain Chris Pike to themysteriously forbidden planet Talos IV.

From a strictly budgetary standpoint, this was a great idea. But whatRoddenberry couldnt have anticipated was the narrative power this story wouldhave. For the viewer, The Menagerie was incredibly powerful because it gaveStar Treka very tangible sense of history. Suddenly, thanks to the footage of ayoung Captain Pike on a slightly different but still recognizable Enterprise, viewershad the sense that the world of Star Trekhad gone on long before the episodesthey watched day to day, that the ship and the fleet it was a part of had a long lifeof its own before it was given to Captain Kirk to command. Who was this mysteriousoriginal Enterprisecaptain, who lacked Captain Kirks wit and charm but brought hisown brooding, tense charisma to the series? And then there was Spock; similar to theSpock we knew, but younger-seeming, more impulsive, less composed.

The other thing TheMenagerie brought to the

forefront? Tragedy. Tragedy and risk. The

sight of the terribly scarred and crippled CaptainPike, trapped and frozen forever in his chair, compared

to the images of the young, vital, powerful captain on thescreen, only highlighted that voyaging through space was not an

entirely safe proposition, and even Starfleet captains werent immune fromthe horrible vagaries of fate.

But most of all, it made viewers want to see more. More of a younger Spockfinding his way, and more of the brave and occasionally belligerent Captain Pikeand his gallant crew. And thanks to the stories in this volume, they can.

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