{"id":15531,"date":"2016-11-04T08:00:46","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T08:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=15531"},"modified":"2016-11-03T17:04:53","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T17:04:53","slug":"star-trek-gold-key-archives-volume-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2016\/11\/04\/star-trek-gold-key-archives-volume-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek: Gold Key Archives volume 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBy Arnold Drake<\/strong>, John David Warner<\/strong>, George Kashdan<\/strong>, Allan Moniz<\/strong>, Alfredo Giolitti<\/strong> & various (IDW)
\nISBN: 978-1-63140-598-3<\/p>\n

Star Trek<\/strong> launched in the USA on September 8th<\/sup> 1966, running until June 3rd 1969: three seasons comprising 79 episodes. A moderate success, the show only really achieved its stellar popularity after going into syndication; appearing in all American local TV regions perpetually throughout the 1970s and beyond.<\/p>\n

It was also sold all over the world, popping up seemingly everywhere and developing a fanatically devoted fanbase.<\/p>\n

Comicbook franchising specialist Gold Key produced a series which ran for almost a decade beyond the show’s cancellation. Initially these were controversially quite dissimilar from the screen iteration, but by the time of the tales in this sturdy full-colour hardback collection (reprinting issues #25-28 and #30-31 from July 1974 to July 1975), quibbling fans had little to moan about and a great deal to cheer as the series was the only source of new adventures starring the beloved crew of the Starship Enterprise<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Following an Introduction – ‘Discovering New Tales’<\/em> by Trek writer expert Bjo Trimble – the exploratory escapades resume with a fast-paced thriller written by Arnold Drake and illustrated as always by Alberto Giolitti.<\/p>\n

Here the USS Enterprise<\/em> arrives at a planet which seems recently deserted, only to discover aberrant solar radiation is causing planetary matter and objects to shrink into non-existence. With the landing party captured by the diminishing natives, Chief Engineer Scott<\/em> investigates the sun itself and gets a major overdose of the radiation. In a desperate race against time, Mr. Spock<\/em> and Dr. McCoy<\/em> must pull out all the stops to save the incredible shrinking man and the ‘Dwarf Planet’<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

John David Warner scripted and Angelo Todaro assisted Giolitti in crafting ‘The Perfect Dream’<\/em> for the next issue as the Enterprise crew face a Starfleet board of inquiry after their last mission ends with the obliteration of a planet.<\/p>\n

As the testimony unfolds the bemused officials hear the incredible story of an unstable world-sized ship, a utopian culture chillingly reminiscent of Earth’s feudal Shogunate of Japan, a deranged geneticist using clones to build an impossibly idealised and stratified society and a mad scheme to repeat the experiment with Vulcans grown from Spock’s stolen DNA\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

In ‘Ice Journey’<\/em> (Warner & Giolitti) the Enterprise is conducting a highly suspect population survey on sub-arctic world Floe<\/em> I<\/em> which soon drops Captain Kirk<\/em>, Spock and evolutionary specialist Dr. Krisp<\/em> into the middle of a eugenics-fuelled race war\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

‘The Mimicking Menace’<\/em> – written by George Kashdan – pits the veteran starmen against deadly duplicates of themselves on a bleak volcanic asteroid before they discover the attacks and bizarre energy drains are the result of First Contact with a radically new form of life\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Star Trek<\/strong> #29 was a reprint of the very first issue so we skip here to #30 and ‘Death of a Star’<\/em> (scripted by Allan Moniz) with the Enterprise on site to observe a star going nova and catapulted into calamity as sensors pick up a planet full of life-readings where none should be. Moving swiftly to evacuate the endangered beings they are astonished to discover only one creature: an old woman who claims to be the dying sun\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Warner then concludes the entertainment with ‘The Final Truth’<\/em> with the Starfleet vessel officiating as new planet Quodar<\/em> officially joins the Federation. The mission goes dreadfully awry after Captain Kirk’s shuttle – full of crewmembers and a Starfleet Admiral – crashes on pariah world Tristas<\/em> where the survivors are captured by sadistic scientists obsessed with discovering the secrets of life. As Spock organises a rescue mission the embattled Kirk uncovers a staggering cosmic secret the Ministers of Science have been carefully concealing for eons\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Rounding out this compelling compendium are cast photos, a gallery of painted covers and a picture-packed historical feature highlighting ‘George Wilson: Gold Key Reprints’<\/em>. Stunning sci fi thrills and dashing derring-do abound in this thrilling collection of comics classics which will delight not just TV devotees and funnybook fans but also any reader in search of a pictorially powerful grand adventure.
\n\u00c2\u00ae and \u00c2\u00a9 2016 CBS Studios, Inc. Star Trek and related marks are trademarks of CBS Studios, Inc. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Arnold Drake, John David Warner, George Kashdan, Allan Moniz, Alfredo Giolitti & various (IDW) ISBN: 978-1-63140-598-3 Star Trek launched in the USA on September 8th 1966, running until June 3rd 1969: three seasons comprising 79 episodes. A moderate success, the show only really achieved its stellar popularity after going into syndication; appearing in all … <\/p>\n

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