 Star Trek comics I had to get the Star Trek comics eventually and here they are These two volumes collect Here the first eight issues and issues 27 through 35 of The gold key series published in the 1970s These volumes don't have the tremendous painted covers that The gold key Star Trek series was known for all I'll show off a few of them here The Star Trek comics were everywhere in the 1970s. I never bought them. I never collected them I was never interested in them at the time. I should have been But the you saw them everywhere every drugstore every grocery store. They always had Star Trek comics at the front of this first collection here there's a little Prequel about Captain Kirk's adventures at the Academy is a psycho file and his identifacts But then we get into issue number one when this series first started It got a lot of criticism from Star Trek fans Because although the art was great. I mean look at this stuff It's very very dynamic and very loyal to the looks of the characters But the stories were written by people who were not familiar with Star Trek and hadn't bothered to familiarize themselves with the series and they just wrote random space operas and You can see a good example here At the at the end of this first issue Yeah, here's the end here the Enterprise Incinerates the planet and wipes out all life on this planet and Spock says it's necessary. It's the only way to be sure Nuka from space is the only way to be sure that is not a Star Trek story. That is not how Star Trek did things So yeah, this is why they face such criticism There's beautiful art here. I love this art, but the stories leave Quite a bit to be desired Star Trek comics Get into it Please remember to press that like button it helps my videos get seen and then subscribe so you can come back next time I do science fiction book TV and movie reviews all the time and please consider becoming a patron There's a link in the description below