Star Trek Comic Strip (UK)

Star Trek Comic Strips (UK) refer to a series of weekly comic strips based on Star Trek released in the United Kingdom from 1969-1973, with two additional stories that appeared in 1978 and 1979 respectively. The entire run comprised 638 pages.
Published concurrent with the US Gold Key comics, these stories appeared in the pages of Joe 90: Top Secret, TV21, and Valiant. Strips appeared as two- and three-page spreads in magazines printing Star Trek and other adventure-based titles. 257 issues were published over the course of five years, with additional stories running in one Joe 90 annual, three TV21 annuals, a Valiant Super Special, two TV Comic annuals and an issue of Radio Times magazine.
The strips were reprinted by IDW Publishing over three volumes beginning in in the Star Trek: The Classic UK Comics series; the series was also collected in volumes 10, 20 and 29 of the Star Trek Graphic Novel Collection in 2017 and 2018.
==Setting==
The comics were loosely based on the during James T. Kirk's first five-year mission. There are several appearances of Dave Bailey, which may place some stories at the beginning of the mission, while others have appearances by Pavel Chekov, placing them toward the latter portion of the mission. Hikaru Sulu is often seen in a blue uniform, but this may be a coloring error; Kirk often wears a red uniform, and Montgomery Scott a blue one.
Guest appearances and cameos included Andorians, Klingons, and Romulans. Aliens were often anthropomorphic animals, including birds, cats, gorillas, fish, and insects.
Essayist Alan J. Porter wrote in the book New Life and New Civilizations: Exploring Star Trek Comics, "The writers and editors who worked on the strip failed to grasp one essential point: that Star Trek is an American show driven by America's vision of itself as pioneers. So instead of a "wagon train to the stars," the British version of Star Trek became, like , more a "Royal Air Force in space."
==Summaries==
===Untitled weekly story arcs===
Arc #	Dates published	Stardate 	Periodical 	Pages	Writer 	Artist
1 	– 	24.09.45 – 25.00.10 (2265-2266)	Joe 90: Top Secret #1-6 	12 	Angus Allan	Harry F. Lindfield
2 	– 	20, 16.45 – 20.23.54 (2266) 	Joe 90: Top Secret #7-10 	8 	Angus Allan	Harry F. Lindfield
3 	– 	unknown (2265-2266) 	Joe 90: Top Secret #11-14	8 	Angus Allan	Harry F. Lindfieldz
4 	– 	unknown (2266) 	Joe 90: Top Secret #15-18	8 	Angus Allan	Harry F. Lindfield
5 	– 	25:11:23 (2265-2266) 	Joe 90: Top Secret #19-22	8 	Angus Allan	Harry F. Lindfield
6 	– 	48 12 46 (2266) 	Joe 90: Top Secret #23-30	16 	Angus Allan	Harry F. Lindfield
7 	– 	24.12.17 (2266) 	Joe 90: Top Secret #31-34	8 	Angus Allan	Harry F. Lindfield
8 	– 	unknown (2267-2269) 	TV21 & Joe 90 #1-6 	12 	unknown 	Harry F. Lindfield
9 	– 	unknown (2268-2269) 	TV21 & Joe 90 #7-11 	10 	unknown 	Harry F. Lindfield
10 	– 	unknown (2268-2269) 	TV21 & Joe 90 #12-17 	12 	unknown 	Harry F. Lindfield
11 	– 	unknown (2266-2267) 	TV21 & Joe 90 #18-23 	12 	unknown 	Harry F. Lindfield
12 	– 	unknown (2267-2268) 	TV21 & Joe 90 #24-31 	16 	unknown 	Jim Baikie
13 	– 	unknown (2268-2269) 	TV21 & Joe 90 #32-38 	14 	unknown 	Mike Noble
14 	– 	unknown (2266-2269) 	TV21 & Joe 90 #39-44 	15 	unknown 	Mike Noble
15 	– 	unknown (2267-2269) 	TV21 & Joe 90 #45-51 	21 	unknown 	Mike Noble
16 	– 	unknown (2267-2269) 	TV21 & Joe 90 #52-57 	18 	unknown 	Mike Noble
17 	– 	unknown (2267-2269) 	TV21 & Joe 90 #58-64 	21 	unknown 	Ron Turner, Harold Johns
18 	– 	unknown (2267-2269) 	TV21 & Joe 90 #65-73 	27 	unknown 	Harold Johns
19 	– 	unknown 	TV21 & Joe 90 #74-77 	12 	unknown 	Carlos Pino, Vicente Alcázar
20 	– 	unknown 	TV21 & Joe 90 #78-81 	12 	unknown 	Carlos Pino, Vicente Alcázar
21 	– 	unknown 	TV21 & Joe 90 #82-90 	27 	unknown 	Carlos Pino, Vicente Alcázar
22 	– 	unknown 	TV21 & Joe 90 #91-94 	12 	unknown 	Carlos Pino, Vicente Alcázar
23 	– 	unknown (2267-2269) 	TV21 & Joe 90 #95-100 	18 	unknown 	Carlos Pino, Vicente Alcázar
24 	– 	unknown 	TV21 & Joe 90 #101-105 	15 	unknown 	Carlos Pino, Vicente Alcázar
25 	– 	unknown 	Valiant & TV21 #1-2 	4 	unknown 	John Stokes
26 	– 	unknown (2267-2269) 	Valiant & TV21 #3-11 	18 	unknown 	John Stokes
27 	– 	unknown (2267-2269) 	Valiant & TV21 #12-17 	12 	unknown 	John Stokes
28 	– 	unknown (2267-2269) 	Valiant & TV21 #18-22 	10 	unknown 	John Stokes
29 	– 	unknown 	Valiant & TV21 #23-33 	22 	unknown 	John Stokes
30 	– 	unknown (2267-2269) 	Valiant & TV21 #34-42 	18 	unknown 	John Stokes
31 	– 	unknown 	Valiant & TV21 #43-47 	10 	unknown 	John Stokes
32 	– 	unknown (2267-2269) 	Valiant & TV21 #48-56 	18 	unknown 	John Stokes
33 	– 	unknown 	Valiant & TV21 #57-63 	14 	unknown 	John Stokes
34 	– 	unknown (2267-2269) 	Valiant & TV21 #64-73 	20 	unknown 	John Stokes
35 	– 	unknown (2267-2269) 	Valiant & TV21 #74-90 	34 	unknown 	John Stokes
36 	– 	unknown (2267-2269) 	Valiant & TV21 #91-106 	32 	unknown 	John Stokes
37 	– 	unknown 	Valiant & TV21 #107-118 	24 	unknown 	John Stokes
===Annual stories===
Story Title 	Dates	Stardate 	Periodical 	Pages	Writer 	Artist
Untitled 1st 	 	20:0605 – 20:1507 (2265-2266)	Joe 90 Top Secret Annual 	6 	unknown 	Ron Turner
Untitled 2nd 	 	3715.3 (2267) 	Radio Times 	1 	Max Ehrlich	Frank Bellamy
Captives in Space 	 	unknown (2265-2268) 	TV21 Annual (1st of 3 stories)	6 	unknown 	unknown
Planet of Rejects 	 	unknown (2267-2269) 	TV21 Annual (2nd of 3 stories)	8 	unknown 	unknown
Gateway to the Future 	 	unknown (2265-2267) 	TV21 Annual (3rd of 3 stories)	5 	unknown 	unknown
Untitled 6th 	 	unknown (2265-2270) 	TV21 Annual 	4 	unknown 	unknown
Untitled 7th 	 	unknown (2265-2267) 	Valiant Summer Special 	6 	unknown 	John Stokes
Planet of the Dead 	 	unknown (2265-2268) 	TV21 Annual (1st of 2 stories)	7 	Jack Sutter	Jim Baikie
What is This Thing Called Spock?	 	unknown (2265-2266) 	TV21 Annual (2nd of 2 stories)	7 	Jack Sutter	Jim Baikie
The Gods Have Come! 	 	32-19-25 (2267-2268) 	Mighty TV Comic Annual 	5 	unknown 	John Canning
Untitled 11th 	 	unknown (2267-2269) 	Mighty TV Comic Annual 	5 	unknown 	John Canning
== Collections ==
* Star Trek: The Classic UK Comics, Volume 1
* Star Trek: The Classic UK Comics, Volume 2
* Star Trek: The Classic UK Comics, Volume 3
* As part of the Star Trek Graphic Novel Collection:
** Volume 10 – The Classic UK Comics, Part 1
** Volume 20 – The Classic UK Comics, Part 2
** Volume 29 – The Classic UK Comics, Part 3
== External link ==
* – British Comic Strips index
Comic Strips (UK)