What Actually Happened Between Star Trek III and Star Trek IV?

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▶Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
01:12 - A Brief History of Star Trek at DC Comics
02:36 - Star Trek Comics After Star Trek III
12:15 - A Course Correction Before Star Trek IV
25:20 - Conclusion
29:30 - Shoutouts, Plugs and Announcements

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[neesi]

This seems like as good a place as any to bring this up, but am I the only one who thinks that Robin Curtis' Saavik is hugely underrated? Unlike TWOK (where she's mostly there to roll her eyes at the wacky humans), TSFS gives her a lot more to do, and Curtis handles some potentially tricky moments really well; the pon farr scene could have been totally laughable, but she makes it work. She deserves far better than to be dismissed as Not Kirstie Alley.

[st.anselmsfire]

When my kids saw the Triforce symbols on Spock's robes when they saw Star Trek III for the first time, they came to the immediate conclusion that Vulcan is Hyrule in the future. Thus the pointed ears, the symbols, everything. Spock might even be a current incarnation of Link.

[richardjohnson]

Star Trek's first DC run in the 80s holds a special place in my heart. I always admired the way they filled in the gaps between II, III, and IV but then had to sort of undo their plot lines to get everyone and everything in place for the next movie

[Bethos-Arne]

"The adventure never has to end!" -- The most Star Trek think Steve ever uttered.

[samwill]

People always seem to forget the comics. Almost every franchise has them, and they're usually packed with good to great stories about our favorite characters and more adventures than we know what to do with but so many fans just skip out on them for some reason

[CaptainRetroStation]

It’s a shame that “Star Trek Continues” had to halt their productions. I was looking forward to seeing their adventures evolve into the style, and aesthetics of the films. 🖖🤓

[arklestudios]

As big a Trek nerd as I am, this is a question that has never actually occurred to me.

[Sam_on_YouTube]

I really appreciate how you make your videos accessible to those who only have a casual familiarity with Trek. I've seen most of TNG and Voyager (it was current when I was a kid), Piccard season 1, about half the movies, and a smattering of episodes of the other shows and I know more than is needed to enjoy your videos.

[mwhofmann]

The comics had some fantastic arcs. The Trial of James T Kirk was great, not to mention when the crew had to escape Dante's Inferno.

[danieloneal]

I admire how some of the artists made no attempt to make the ship interiors, control consoles, etc. look anything like they did onscreen. Also, I know that at this point we’d seen no Romulans outside of those two episodes of TOS, but wow … the 1930s Buck Rogers yellow peril aesthetic here is really something else.

[ericjones]

I am so glad I stumbled into your youtube video on these classic Star Trek issues. As a kid I really loved these issues because they were able to give depth to these legendary characters in a way that the original series was unable to accomplish. After Lein, left the series Peter David would become the primary writer and I absolutely loved his era with the comic. In the late 90s, Mr. David also wrote Star Trek novels and I was actually able to invite him to the bookstore I managed at the time and converse with both him and Robert Greenberger the editor of the book at the time. Man, they loved doing those books as much as we loved reading them. And as a bonus they actually signed all my comics that I had over that time period even though they were there to promote their novels.

[TrueYellowDart]

Well that was fun.

And even though the comics you spoke of did do a fun job of “maintaining continuity” in a convoluted manner, they can also be an example of the fun you can have by ignoring continuity and telling your own story.

[gemglowsticks]

The Romulan commander as played by Bugs Bunny. "Of course you realize, this means WAR!"

[ErisRising]

I remember being obsessed by this particular run of issues for the reasons you mentioned, namely how they managed to adapt to a film that completely upended the status quo in a way that allowed them to get back to telling the stories they wanted to tell (and the readers wanted to read), and then reset everything back to the ending of the film without discarding any stories they'd told along the way. With the exception of the minor cheat you mentioned in the trial dialogue, I thought that it was a masterful solution, and worked well within the spirit of the franchise.

[MrGeocidal]

I'm impressed that they were able to make the stories match up without using time travel or erasing all the previous issues from history.

[CptBerns]

I enjoyed those comics very much. Also, after The Undiscovered Country, these comics went on for a few more years telling stories set BEFORE that movie. Then one day they decided to go on telling stories set at the TOS time. I didn't like that. I felt Star Trek had evolved beyond that. Even today, when I think of Kirk and Spock, I see them in their monster maroon uniforms.

[AndrewDRed]

Captain Jesus, lead character of the hit novel The Bible 2 - This Time It's Biblical.

I do like that Jesus is still always portrayed as looking like the same young Italian guy that Da Vinci was doinking when he made all those paintings.

[saunderscvids]

First time watcher. The writing and delivery in this video is top tier. Wow.

[welbow]

I hope you will include "Dark Mirror" by Diane Duane in your perspective of the mirror universe. Having not seen TOS before TNG as a kid, that was my first introduction to it. I think it definitely holds up. AND, your favorite TNG character gets to play a bigger part in it 😀

[MattMcIrvin]

4:59 I'm immediately reminded of Star Trek: TNG's "Family"... one of the best and, in a way, most radical episodes of the series because that kind of thing appeared so rarely.

I was going to wonder what happened to Mirror Spock's revolution that was implied at the end of "Mirror, Mirror", but I guess in these stories we kind of get the beginning of it.