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Star Trek's 50th anniversary is coming up next year and my pal McCrary and I were discussing doing a fan comic in celebration of it. We can't publish it, obviously, but we can put it up on the web for other Star Trek fans to read.

 

We went back and forth on some story ideas and ended up resurrecting a project we wrote and pencilled back in 1992. It's been so long ago that I don't remember why it wasn't lettered and inked, but I suspect that we sent it into DC Comics (who was publishing Star Trek comics at the time) as a sample and when we didn't hear anything, just set it aside.

 

One of the things that contributed to it staying dormant was that Star Trek continuity made it apocryphal.

 

Still, it was a fun project and when McCrary suggested we finish it up and put it on the web, I agreed and said we could just acknowledge when the story was done and what the continuity was at the time. It was a 60 page comic and McCrary had photocopies of all but 5 pages and after a harrowing trip to my storage unit, I was able to track down the script. It's a very weird thing reading something you wrote 23 years ago. You don't remember it, so your younger self is telling you a story you don't remember. Very odd.

 

Anyway, this time out, I'm taking on the challenge of coloring the pages as well as lettering them. This is turning out to be a lot of fun and I thought I'd share the first five pages here. I've left off the lettering because we want to release the story on September 6th, 2016.

 

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Thanks, guys!

 

The framing sequence takes place just before the two-part TNG episode "Unification" and the main story takes place 37 years before that. This was our take on what had happened to Kirk.

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  • 2 years later...

Just wanted to post that the comic is finally finished!

 

https://www.facebook.com/pg/startrekfancomic/photos/?tab=album&album_id=639008166280004

 

This should take you to the photo gallery with all the pages.

 

It took longer than expected, but it was worth the effort. Even if we can't profit from it.

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Just wanted to post that the comic is finally finished!

 

https://www.facebook.com/pg/startrekfancomic/photos/?tab=album&album_id=639008166280004

 

This should take you to the photo gallery with all the pages.

 

It took longer than expected, but it was worth the effort. Even if we can't profit from it.

 

That's wonderful, Mark!

 

As a TOS loyalist who hardly ever watched TNG, I'm not bothered by any timeline problems. :)

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