Template:Realworld Under the command of Captain James T. Kirk, the starship 'Enterprise' drifted through the deep space of the virtually unexplored Omega Galaxy...
Summary
A sample of Palnak's vast collection
Kirk and Spock are plucked out of time by a collector in the far future.
Memorable quotes
"We'll take a look for ourselves. That's what our mission's all about."
- - Kirk, exploring the Omega Galaxy
"Is that you, Skipper?"
"Get off the air, you madman! You're giving us away!"
- - Scotty calling Kirk at an inopportune time
Background
Characters
- Kirk wears a red uniform. Scotty and Sulu wear blue ones.
- Kirk swears by Jupiter.
- Despite recording a personal testimony of Spock's life story, Palnak still calls Spock "Earthman".
Setting and technology
Palnak's museum in the 33rd century
- There are few clues as to the timing of this story. Uhura wears a red uniform, so it must take place after "Mudd's Women" (2266), but before Arex comes aboard (2269).
- The Omega Galaxy is likely just a region of the Milky Way Galaxy labeled or classified as "Omega".
- Kirk orders a 'questing missile' to probe the planet.
- Uhura automatically hails the planet on all frequencies; this seems to conflict with the Prime Directive.
- The Enterprise is said to make a "routine orbital descent".
- Kirk and Spock beam down to a random location without first scanning for cities.
- The planet's animal life includes birds and an armadillo-like creature.
- Kirk activates a translator built into his communicator.
- Palnak built his museum around the 2760s (500 years old), and he lives approximately in the 3260s (1000 years from Kirk's 'present').
- Rather than an earpiece, Uhura wear headphones with a built-in microphone.
- The December 2014
- Palnak's time travel method uses a 'sonic vibrator'. It is described as a 'disintegration and transportation process', which could be some form of temporal transporter.
- Scotty takes two shuttlecraft (including the Galileo) to the planet with at least sixteen security men, all wearing blue.
- The motif of a collector from the distant future retrieving specimens from the past was revisited in the 2014 eBook novella "Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations: The Collectors".
Publishing history
None of the UK weekly stories had titles. Each installment was two pages in length.
- Part 1: TV21 & Joe 90 #39, 20 June 1970
- Part 2: TV21 & Joe 90 #40, 27 June 1970
- Part 3: TV21 & Joe 90 #41, 4 July 1970
- Part 4: TV21 & Joe 90 #42, 11 July 1970
- Part 5: TV21 & Joe 90 #43, 18 July 1970
- Part 6: TV21 & Joe 90 #44, 25 July 1970
Cover gallery
TV21 & Joe 90 #41: INTO THE SPACETRAP! See STAR TREK inside...
Appearances
Regular cast
Other characters
- Palnak the Ageless One, aka "The Collector"
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