Star Trek: The Newspaper Comics are a series of 20 Star Trek comics consisting of 1,400 comic strips which were printed in daily newspapers from 1979-1983, produced by the Los Angeles Times Syndicate, and reprinted by IDW Publishing in 2012. The series takes place between Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
The strips take place on the starship USS Enterprise chronologically after the first Star Trek film, and when it began it used the characters, Starfleet alien races, uniforms, sets, and props from the film.
Victims[]
Called Home[]
- None
Dilithium Dilemma[]
- Three Unnamed Klingons - Blown up by unknown Klingons when they destroyed their travel pod with disruptors on the orders of Captain Kodrash.
- Commander Koth - Blown up by unknown Klingons when they destroyed their travel pod with disruptors on the orders of Captain Kodrash.
- Officer Krax - Blown up by unknown Klingons when they destroyed their travel pod with disruptors on the orders of Captain Kodrash.
- Total - 5
The Real McCoy[]
- None
Double Bluff[]
- None
Aberration on Abaris[]
- At Least One Animal - Blown up during the destruction of Abaris when it collided with another planet.
- Total - 1
Husian Gambit[]
- Lubo - Disintegrated after being accidentally shot by Glynko with a phaser.
- Glynko - Disintegrated after being shot by Lieutenant Tulb with a phaser.
- Five Unnamed Husians - Blown up by Lieutenant Commander Hikaru Sulu with an overloaded phaser on the orders of Admiral James Kirk.
- Two Unnamed USS Enterprise Crewmen - Disintegrated after being shot by unknown Husians with phasers.
- Total - 9
Heads of State[]
- Unnamed Man - Died during a failed dichotomectomy performed by Doctor Leonard McCoy off-panel, mentioned.
- Dog - Died in an unspecified manner off-panel, mentioned.
- Total - 2
It's a Living[]
- None
The Savage Within[]
- Eight Unnamed Clan Members - Died of radiation poisoning due to their proximity to a neutron star off-panel, skeletons shown.
- Unnamed Clan Member - Killed by an Eloksi using telepathy, shown in a flashback.
- Total - 9
Quarantine[]
- Five Unnamed Sarsith - Shot by General Onoth.
- Two Unnamed Sarsith - Blown up by an unknown Klingon with photon torpedoes on the orders of Captain Kolak.
- General Onoth - Blown up by an unknown Klingon with photon torpedoes on the orders of Captain Kolak.
- Total - 8
Restructuring Is Futile[]
- Mezat Z'ar - Gassed by an Omnimind robot with sleeping gas.
- Omnimind Robot - Punched in the chest by Captain Spock.
- Omnimind Robot - Destroyed after being struck by Admiral James Kirk and Lieutenant Commander Hikaru Sulu.
- Omnimind Robot - Destroyed by unknown USS Enterprise crewmen off-panel, body shown.
- Four Unnamed Klingons - Shot by Omnimind robots, shown in a flashback.
- 380 Unnamed Klingons - Either killed by Omnimind robots or died during the destruction of the Iskonia laboratory.
- Two Omnimind Robots - Crushed by Captain Kolak.
- Captain Kolak - Incinerated during the destruction of the Iskonia laboratory.
- Karos - Shot by Omnimind robots.
- Two Omnimind Robots - Blown up by Admiral James Kirk with a thrown photon grenade.
- Four 507-Units - Died after entering a power field.
- Omnimind Watchdog - Shot by Admiral James Kirk, Captain Spock, Sergeant Umeki, and Lyra with phasers.
- Ilik Na - Died in an unspecified manner off-panel, mentioned.
- At Least Three Omnimind Robots - Deactivated by Omnimind.
- Omnimind - Committed suicide by deactivating itself.
- Total - 404
The Wristwatch Plantation[]
- Ensign Mike Carpenter - Suffocated after being beamed into space via short-circuiting transporter controls.
- Crewman Pete Conroy - Suffocated after being beamed into space via short-circuiting transporter controls.
- At Least One Unnamed Death Dagger Crewman - Blown up by Lieutenant Pavel Chekov when he destroyed the Death Dagger with phasers on the orders of Captain Spock.
- At Least Three Unnamed Kzinti - Blown up by Lieutenant Pavel Chekov when he destroyed their Kzinti fighters on the orders of Captain Spock.
- Ravager - Shot by an unknown Kzinti, shown in a flashback.
- Ravager - Shot by an unknown Kzinti.
- Two Unnamed Kzinti - Killed by Ravagers off-panel, bodies shown.
- Ravager - Killed by unknown Kzinti off-panel, body shown.
- At Least Two Ravagers - Killed by unknown Kzinti off-panel.
- Arm-of-the-Hamstringer - Presumably killed by Ravagers off-panel.
- Gunner - Presumably killed by Ravagers off-panel.
- Telepath - Presumably killed by Ravagers off-panel.
- Total - 16
The Nogura Regatta[]
- Fish - Impaled and cooked by an unknown Thorian off-panel, body shown.
- Total - 1
A Merchant's Loyalty[]
- Captain Krieger - Blown up by Regas when he blew up his ship with a detonated explosive.
- Total - 1
Taking Shape[]
- Three Unnamed Manarkites - Blown up by Admiral James Kirk with a thrown overloaded phaser.
- Lieutenant T'Yee (Manarkite) - Accidentally shot in the chest by Admiral James Kirk with a phaser.
- Total - 4
Send in the Clones[]
- Brian - Died during a failed cloning operation off-panel, mentioned.
- Lyssa-1 - Stabbed in the heart by Lyssa-2 with a knife off-panel, body shown.
- Total - 2
Goodbye to Spock[]
- Lieutenant Commander Singh - Died after he crashed his shuttle into Fortenue after being struck by an asteroid.
- Total - 1
Terminally Yours[]
- 30,000 Unnamed Circe II Residents - Died after being infected with the Red Plague off-panel, mentioned.
- 1,000,000 Unnamed Vulcans - Died after being infected with the Red Plague off-panel, mentioned.
- Vulcan Sand Worm - Shot by Captain Spock with a phaser.
- Total - 1,030,001
The Retirement of Admiral Kirk[]
- None
Getting Real[]
- 72,535 Unnamed Florida Residents - Died after being infected with the Icarus Plague off-panel, mentioned. This timeline was erased by Starfleet.
- Total - 72,535
Deaths[]
- Total - 1,102,999
Kill Counts[]
- Admiral James Tiberius Kirk - 13 (Alive)
- Captain Spock - 7 (Alive)
- Lieutenant Commander Hikaru Sulu - 6 (Alive)
- Captain Kodrash - 5 (Alive)
- General Onoth - 5 (Deceased)
- Captain Kolak - 5 (Deceased)
- Lieutenant Pavel Andreievich Chekov - 4 (Alive)
- Omnimind (AI) - 3 (Deactivated)
- Doctor Leonard H. McCoy - 1 (Alive)
- Sergeant Umeki - 1 (Alive)
- Lieutenant Tulb - 1 (Alive)
- Lyssa-2 - 1 (Alive)
- Lyra (Iskonian) - 1 (Alive)
- Regas (Merchant) - 1 (Alive)
- Glynko (Husian) - 1 (Deceased)
Notes[]
- An unknown number of Toltans died during a nuclear war.
- The population of Rigel III was destroyed.
- All life on Vulpecula 12 IV was eradicated by a meteorite.
