The British strips were produced during the franchise’s infancy, even before the show had premiered on the BBC television, during the same week as the first moon landing. The comics may seem off the mark now, but for overseas readers at the time, Captain Kurt’s weird, wonky adventures were the Star Trek they knew. “In many ways, it’s impossible to quantify the impact the British comics had on me and my friends,” recalls Alan J. Porter, author of Star Trek: A Comics History, who analyzed the strips for Joseph F. Berenato’s New Life and New Civilizations: Exploring Star Trek Comics. “For it was these idiosyncratic strips that first introduced us to the final frontier. Star Trek debuted in the pages of the Joe 90 comic six months before we saw…
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Star Trek Explorer (Digital) - 1 Issue, Star Trek Explorer #9