Real world article
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(written from a Production point of view)
The crew teams up with the Klingons!
Background information[]
Creators[]
- Based on Star Trek created by Gene Roddenberry
- Writer: Howard Weinstein
- Artists:
- Ken Hooper (pencil art)
- Bob Dvorak (inking)
- Tom McCraw (color art)
- Bob Pinaha (letter art)
- Jerome K. Moore (cover art)
- 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 2 characters.
Regular and recurring characters[]
Senior staff of the Enterprise-A.
- James T. Kirk
- USS Enterprise-A captain. For some reason, Kirk sometimes wore the non-canon fleet captain insignia seen in some reference works.
- Spock
- Vulcan Enterprise-A exec and science officer.
- Leonard McCoy
- Enterprise-A surgeon.
- Uhura
- Enterprise-A communications officer.
- Pavel Chekov
- Enterprise-A navigator and security chief.
- Hikaru Sulu
- Enterprise-A helmsman. Sulu appeared on the cover and in one interior panel but had no dialogue in the comic. For some reason he sat at the navigator station.
- Montgomery Scott
- Enterprise-A chief engineer. Scotty appeared on the cover but had no dialogue or appearances in the comic.
- Keydn
- Klingon, captain of IKS qul HoH
- Khezri
- Klingon commodore, of IKS Qapla.
- Sally Gallan
- Needran mining director.
- Zot Zandir
- Gallan's assistant.
- Exius
- Tyrion commander.
- Trevin
- Tyrion, first lieutenant to Exius.
Other characters[]
- Anderson
- Starfleet captain of USS Lafayette. Anderson wore the non-canon fleet captain insignia seen in some reference works.
- Myori
- Starfleet commander assigned as science officer aboard USS Lafayette. It wasn't clear whether Ms. Myori was a commander or lieutenant commander.
- Dabney
- Doctor on McCoy's staff aboard Enterprise who reported the Klingon defense officer's desire to speak with Kirk and Spock.
- qul HoH defense officer
- Klingon officer who reported that his station had been sabotaged, and that only himself, a deceased subordinate, or Keydn, could have done so.
- Needran leader
- Leader of the people of Needra.
- Lafayette helmsman
- Dark-skinned Starfleet officer seated at the helm position on the bridge of Lafayette. This officer wore a deep blue turtleneck collar, indicating some sort of military specialty. He was apparently wounded or killed in the Tyrion attack.
- Lafayette navigator
- Starfleet officer who wore a thick red visor while sitting at the navigation post on the Lafayette bridge. The visor was drawn similarly to that of Cyclops of the X-Men comics, whom this man resembled.
- Lafayette bridge officer
- Starfleet officer, with a gray turtleneck collar, who announced the alien vessel fire to Captain Anderson, while helping a yellow-skinned medical officer back to his feet.
- Yellow-skinned Lafayette medical crewman
- Alien medic stationed on the Lafayette bridge.
- Green-skinned Lafayette medical crewman
- Alien medic stationed on the Lafayette bridge, who rushed around with a medikit helping wounded.
- Enterprise pilot
- Dark-skinned officer, wearing the uniform of a navigator, who sat at the helm console aboard the Enterprise-A. He appeared to be wearing the insignia of either a commander or lieutenant commander.
- Blue-skinned Enterprise crewman
- Alien crewman, wearing a military dark-blue turtleneck collar, stationed on the Enterprise-A bridge.
References[]
- Antle
- Capital city of Needra.
- Hubble frontier region
- USS Lafayette (NCC-7033)
- Federation light cruiser. The Lafayette had a crew of one-hundred, forty-two of whom perished in the Tyrion attack. Although the Lafayette seemed outwardly similar to a Miranda-class vessel, it had a secondary hull structure slung between the warp drive's nacelles.
- Needra
- Planet, home to a mining settlement.
- Needrans
- Humanoid inhabitants of Needra.
- Needran system
- Star system.
- IKS Qapla
- Klingon battlecruiser.
- IKS qul HoH
- Klingon light cruiser.
- Tyrions
- Vanguard
- Tyrion vessel.
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