Star Trek, Weekly Comic Strips Joe 90: Top Secret (beginning 19 Jan 1969, w: Angus Allen and various) #1-6 no Klingon. #7-10 no Klingon. #11-14 no Klingon. #15-18 no Klingon. #19-22 no Klingon. #23-30 no Klingon. #31-34 no Klingon. TV21 and Joe 90 (1969-1971, w: various, a: Harry Lindfield and various) Note: TV21 and Joe 90 became TV21 with issue #37. #1-6 no Klingon. #7-11 no Klingon. #12-17 no Klingon. #18-23 TV21 & Joe 90 Issue 18 Despite an uneasy peace treaty that had lasted for several years, the warlike powers of the Klingon Empire had secretly longed for the means of smashing their sworn enemies in the Space Federation. Now, their ruthless leaders were ready for an act of supreme treachery. Strike Raider to base! All armaments operational! Base to Strike Raider! Commence attack maneuver. Decoy action must not fail! A Klingon Raider! Commander, bearded, with fringed sash over left shoulder. The small raider fires at Enterprise Kirk – Give ‘em a blast and make it count. Enterprise Weapons officer 1– These Klingons never give up trying to provoke the Federation into another war! Enterprise Weapons officer 2- The skipper will lodge a complaint and it’ll get buried in red tape as usual! Forcefields cause the engagement to be a stalemate Kirk, incensed by the impudence of the assault – I’ll follow that ship all over the universe if necessary! They aren’t going to get away with it this time! Klingons – Once we lead them home, the annihilation experiment can begin! Enterprise at full power not sure to catch the fast raider. Klingons head for planet Seggor, classified uninhabited but the Klingons are using it as a massive secret research workshop. Brilliantly camouflaged the surface of the planet opens up as the Klingon raider lands vertically, three aft engines firing to slow decent. Secretly able to observe people on the surface. There is a steel shield under the planet’s rock surface. The Enterprise sends an armed shuttlecraft. The Klingons can only take one person for their experiment. Klingon – It will be amusing to pick out a subject for certain death, then watch the fear on his friends’ faces when we return him! Sulu – The Klingons are up to something. That crazy little ship, attacking us! Kirk – Sure, they’re wily. But they’re like pirates. We’ve had this sort of thing before. For once, Kirk was underestimating the enemy. Red shirt Hoskins captured by Klingons. Kirk – We’ll blast through, the Klingons are going to find out it doesn’t pay to fool with me! Klingon Professor – Let the Earthmen taste the flavour of real fear! A replica of Hoskins is returned to the surface, and crumbles to dust at Kirk’s touch. Kirk unaware that he had been lured into a hostile Klingon trap. Klingon Professor – I have eyes, Captain. Their commander is the one we must impress. Terror will make him resist more strongly than you may expect. Kirk and Sulu overcome by sheer numbers. Klingon – You Earthmen are strong, I’ll give you that! I’d forgotten that you people become attached to your fellows sometimes. TV21 & Joe 90 Issue 20 Sondar, Klingon male on Seggor. Klingon Professor – Demonstrate our power! Switch on the granulator. Hoskins rematerializes. Klingons can destroy and recreate matter at will. Klingon Professor – Return to Earth and give them our ultimatum. Immediate surrender, or we turn this ray on the whole planet, and destroy it, instantly. Kirk – You’d do it, too. Klingon Professor – It would amuse us. Ray machine converts all matter to powder. A forcefield protected shuttlecraft is also disintegrated. Scotty – I’d never be surprised at any Klingon tricks. Scotty beams down to Seggor to see for himself. Kirk – The moment the Klingons smell treachery they’ll blast us out of the skies! The weapon's range is limitless, there’s no escape! TV21 & Joe 90 Issue 22 Klingon – By the powers! Silence him, Meng Meng, Klingon male on Seggor. Klingon Professor – Move the bombarder to action attitude Klingon Professor – Overlord HQ to Enterprise. Stop stalling Kirk. Set course for Earth immediately or we fire! Scott is of the opinion that if the bombarder is as invincible as they say there’s only one way to tackle it. When the Klingons find Scott, they'll kill him. Klingon incredible disintegrator beam Klingon Commander - There they go to tell the universe that the Klingons are the masters! Klingon Professor - I would have expected Kirk to try something. He has quite a reputation, that man. Electronics are universal, Klingon wiring's just the same as anyone else's. Scott is discovered after he has sabotaged the disintegrator and is making his way out. But he escapes. The Klingon commander gave the order that would simultaneously open the exit vent and fire the disintegrator. Fire and destroy! In one brief second the Klingon Headquarters didsappeared in a fearful holocaust along with a dozen square miles of the planet Seggor's surface! Scott jammed the exit hatch so the ray couldn't penetrate it. It turned back on itself. #24-31 A Romulan posing as Federation Ambassador Courtenay Marshall leads the Enterprise to a trap on planet Tondus. Tondus is an ideal barrier in Fed defenses against the Romulan Empire. Romulans have device to transport people's minds into other bodies. #32-38 TV21 Issue 32 Captain Louis Jago of the Federation guardship treated his crew like dirt. Lead Mechanic Erhard Voss leads mutiny, his mates Kefford and Martin. Takes the ship. Officers sent off in unarmed shuttle, except the administrative officer First Lieutenant, Horek, a Vulcan, navigator. Spock's cousin. The mutineers outpace an attack force and are heading for the Enterprise's sector. The mutiny is hushed up - the first in the Federation's history. The mutineers are hoping to find sanctuary in the Klingon Empire. The Federation can't permit the Dorado to fall into their hands. Enterprise ordered to demand surrender or destroy the ship. Vital equipment falling into enemy hands. Spock prevents Enterprise from firing, lets Dorado pass. The Dorado contacts the Klingons. The Klingons will accept them as long as they heave to and let Klingons investigate the ship. Dorado jettisons fuel, explosion cripples Enterprise. The Klingons would have only executed them anyway. The Klingons will be pleased to have the Dorado, with the secret classified documents on board. TV21 Issue 035A Klingon outpost planet Scaptar. The Dorado is heading toward the Klingon outpost planet Scaptar, they shouldn't get too close. The Klingons are likely to take the ship, the documents and kill the mutineers The Dorado has entered the Klingon complex Horek contacts Spock telepathically, the Dorado is lying off to parley with the Klingons. Half-Vulcan Spock can only receive, can't transmit. The Klingons send a delegation to parley. A single representative. Red-haired Klingons, leader with green sash over left shoulder. They are not planning on getting close to Voss. The earth-ship will be certain to take them prisoner. The Masterslave will do our work for us! From the planet Scaptar, the Klingon transit-hopper catapulted into the stratosphere. Masterslave robot sent to Dorado, programme of destruction! The Klingon astrospan boundaries. Kirk can't risk a shot at the Dorado, right on the line of the Klingon astrospan boundary. It would be equal to a declaration of war! Kirk warns Dorado the visitor is a robot. The Masterslave robot crunched in the closing of the airlock door. Green gas, would have killed the crew, ready for the Klingons to move in and take the ship. The mutineers are caught between Kirk and the Klingons. The Klingons won't show any mercy. The rock-hard violence of Voss, he's in favor of going straight for the Klingons, blast them! Show them we mean business. The Klingons in the space ferry that had brought up the Masterslave robot paid for their treachery, the Dorado rams them. Horek fears the conflict will turn into total space war! Voss want to take the Dorado and attack the closest Klingon planet Spock can take control of Horek's unconscious body. The Dorado goes deeper into Klingon-governed space. TV21 Issue 037B Klingon planet classified as Necros Necros sends missiles against the approaching Dorado, but the ship's shields hold. Suicidal attack by Voss with the Dorado will be an act that could lead to total war. Additional missile attacks don't penetrate the ship's force-field. Voss - The mailed fist! Hit 'em with everything we've got! The Klingons respect strength! They'll talk terms soon enough! Spock instructs Horek to turn the Dorado around, and lower shields when ship approaches Enterprise. One gas shell will knock out the crew. Mutiny at end. #39-44 no Klingon. #45-51 no Klingon. #52-57 no Klingon. #58-64 no Klingon. #65-73 no Klingon. #74-77 no Klingon. #78-81 no Klingon. #82-90 An Enterprise crewman, fearful of gangsters after witnessing a murder, flees to the Romulan Piracy Sector. #91-94 no Klingon. #95-100 no Klingon. #101-105 no Klingon. Valiant and TV21 (1971-1973, w: various, a: John Stokes for most issues) #1-2 no Klingon #3-11 Valiant Issues 3-11 Officially it was known as a cold war. But clashes between isolated craft of the Federation and the hostile Klingon Empire were frequent and decisive! K’T’Inga class with Klingon symbols on port wing. The Klingon commander in red shirt, blue chest vest overall, with big Klingon symbol on front. Scruffy side beard. Federation armed survey ship 365B became yet another statistic on the Fed’s files. Fed Admiral – Sometimes I think total war might be the answer! End the stalemate one way or another! The Fed government won’t hear of it. They want to extend strategic alliances, to the planet Lothor, to set up an attack unit there. An important link in base-chain against the Klingons. Lothor right on the edge of the Monades complex. A junior clerical NCO passes info to man working for Klingons. So, a Klingon battle cruiser arrived at Lothor long before Enterprise. Operate blanket communications jammer! Our whole mission depends on this mechano-hypnosis device, Professor! Subject the entire Lothorian administration to our will! We will bait a trap for Enterprise that will be impossible to escape! Kirk and his minions are doomed! A small, lone Klingon raider attacks Enterprise en route to Lothor. Attack after futile missile attack. Valiant Issue 4b The Klingon raider receives message to maintain delaying tactics one torok and fifteen meneks. At Lothor, the Klingons are jamming communications and preparing to invade. Professor Karkax, one of the Klingons’ most brilliant scientists! Elderly, white hair and beard. A ferry vehicle takes captain and Karkax down to planet. Outwardly normal, the Lothorian leaders were entirely under Klingon control. The miracles of mechano-hypnosis. The effects will only wear off if the small, hand held box is destroyed. Soon the Federation will reel under the most staggering blow the Klingon Empire has ever delivered. His mind is wiped clear, ready to receive your every wish! The mechano-hypnotiser. Soon the entire Enterprise command staff will be under Klingon mind control, and then Federation Headquarters! The hypnotizer works in one second. The Klingon captain instructs them to return with Enterprise to Earth, and crash the ship into Paris, the Federation capital city. It is an honor to sacrifice our lives for the glory of the Klingon Empire! Spock breaks the hold of the mechano-hypnotiser with the power of his mind connection with James Kirk. Spock neck-chops the Klingon Commander. Karkax escapes with mechano-hypnotiser. It’s up to Kirk and Spock to stop Karkax, or Earth will become a Klingon colony. Karkax - Pah! Enough of your petty law-making! In the very nick of time Kirk and Spock destroy Karkax, the mechano-hypnotiser box, releasing Enterprise’s crew over Earth, so they veer away. Spock – The Klingons may have failed this time but one thing’s certain! They’ll try again! #12-17 no Klingon #18-22 no Klingon #23-33 no Klingon #34-42 no Klingon #43-47 no Klingon #48-56 no Klingon #57-63 Valiant and TV21 Issue 57 At an enormous testing center on the planet Cereon, Klingons test a chain-reaction explosion in the Enterprise central power housing to destroy the ship, on a person-sized model. Klingon Professor Planet Cereon, known by the Federation to be Klingon occupied. Enterprise passes within tactical range, safe within its shields.. Klingons are classified as hostile. Sulu would like to take a knock at them. The Enterprise is not a warship. The Federation assault fleet will tackle Cereon when it’s good and ready. The Klingons have prepared a native Cereonian, his metabolism has responded perfectly to treatment. His will, his strength, his power, his new form, will obey us without question. The disembodied spirit can drift through space, through the force-shield of a starship. Into the body of a person, destroying the person, body begins to decay. Possessed body stronger, impervious to pain. Make telepathic contact back to nasters. An instrument of evil The Klingons haven’t sent anything up to tail Enterprise. ?Cereonians do not tolerate insults Cereonians capable of disembodied projection. A Klingon destroyer is aboard Enterprise. Valiant and TV21 Issue 60 Commander Sorkon, his battle-cruiser is in zone three-five, close to Enterprise and Cereon. Headquarters Cereon to cruiser command! Prepare for course correction and attack! The target is Enterprise! They will undoubtedly protect themselves with force-shield so your object cannot be to destroy! Ordered to give Enterprise the biggest shaking possible. Use highest yield missiles. Mammoth detonations shake Enterprise. Klingons on Commander Sorkon’s battle-cruiser wear close fitting football type helmets. Sorkon sits low simple center chair. Officer at control panel sits forward of him, seat with back and headrest, directly under viewscreen. Commander Sorkon and his battle-cruiser destroyed by Enterprise final salvo. They had cut their force-shield. The Klingons did not have accurate information as to the layout of the Enterprise generator unit. Info out of date. Confound it! Klingons wear low rolled turtlenecks, with rolled shoulder pads, with small trefoil on front under neck The Cereonian receives his orders direct from the Klingons on Cereon by thought transference. Klingon engineer with mutton chop whiskers. If the crew abandons Enterprise in shuttlecraft, the Klingons can come and pick them off like crows The Klingons believe their best chance is to beam up more will-transference, to create havoc on Enterprise. Three more body-detachment tanks must be extremely carefully set up The destruction of the Enterprise will be a massive blow against the Federation. We can’t fail! Spock sends Cereonian will back, with instructions to destroy complex. Scale five explosions monitored on surface of planet Cereon. #64-73 no Klingon #74-90 Valiant and TV21 issue 74 Sektrak, Lord of the planet Thark, which has no spacecraft, brings Enterprise to Thark by surrounding it with spheroids. A team of Morkolian saboteurs destroyed the entire Tharkian space-fleet on the ground. Sektrak’s son Aarkan is held by the Morkolian leader Partek. Klingons are on Morkol. Morkol has the backing of the Klingon Empire. The Klingons are eternal enemies of the Federation. Totally ruthless and hostile. Kirk- if those fiends have a foothold in this system, it’s our duty to intervene! This puts a new complexion on things! Sektrak – I fancied it would! Star Fleet Control orders to Kirk - Klingon activity must be crushed at all costs! Unidentified craft, Uhura picks up communications, Klingon pattern! Klingon guard ship, Enterprise activates pulsator jammers and fires missiles Klingon guard ship fires rocket at Enterprise. The massive craft shuddered under the monstrous impact. Guard ship destroyed by Enterprise shot. Klingons wear tunics with circular cut out on chest. Good image in issue 79. flat circle with inner circle with trefoil on shirt under tunic visible in center, divided into four sections around edge. Same cut out design on back. Trefoil on stiff collar. Trefoil and Two stars on commander’s stiff collar. Kirk had Uhura send destroyed guard ship’s call sign to base, fake message impact with meteorite, minor damage. Mr. Spock’s computer worked out the Klingons’ complete code. Kirk plans to disguise himself and Spock as Klingons to rescue Sektrak’s son. They have tackled this sort of mission before. Spock does not recall ever having dropped willingly into a hornets’ nest. Kirk was just making it up to calm Sekrak. McCoy had thought implantation equipment, to program Kirk and Spock to think and act like Klingons. A sub-cerebral conditioner. Normally used in cases of memory loss. Klingon material from Spock’s computer downloaded into their brains. With the ability to think and talk like Klingons, they at least stand a chance. With the Enterprise crippled in fight with guard ship. They beam to planet. They can’t afford to be seen. They have to find a couple of Klingons and take their place. Klingon military advisers on planet. Other troops as well. Anywhere the Klingons move in, they take over! You can bet the Morkolians are a subject race. Klingon guard in close fitting helmet, ridge over top, ending in circle with trefoil over brow. gloves, big red disruptor pistol Kirk and Spock, mind-processed to think and act like Klingons, ask the guard to be a pal, they’ve been out on late pass, and overstayed the curfew. The guard lets them sneak past, he didn’t see ‘em. Thanks friend. Spock neck pinches the two relief guards from behind without a sound. Kirk and Spock take their close fitting uniforms and helmets Tharkians capable of distant telepathic communication with each other. With the mind-probe equipment on board Enterprise, the building holding Aarkan can be determined. Klingons would have build alarms into the building. Aarkan – Klingons! Perish you warmongers! The hostile race called Klingons forced the planet Morkol into war with Thark. No Klingons are guarding Aarkan, only Morkolians The Morkolian planetary government is subject to the Klingon Empire. The Morkolian planetary government is slaves of the war mongering Klingon Empire. Enslaved by the hostile Klingon empire. Morkolian president kowtows to Klingon supermaster. Morkolians, subjects of the war-like Klingon empire. Civilians are terrified of the Klingon-ruled government. The Morkolians find Kirk stronger than most Klingons There is a large Morkolian resistance to overthrow the evil government that has taken over our planet under Klingon control. Klingon reinforcements are coming to smash Thark into surrender. Klingon battle fleet on its way to Thark. A wily Klingon colonel. In charge of the state prison. Ordered everyone to witness punishment. Firing squad for Aarkan. No stars on collar, just trefoil. Knocked out. Klingon officer, ceremonial sword, with firing squad. A revolution had started on Morkol, with any luck the tyrannical government will be overthrown. Five ships in Klingon battle fleet. Kirk orders Enterprise to fight a delaying action. In front of a Klingon war-fleet, Enterprise will be blasted apart. Our orders are to help the Tharkians at all costs! On Enterprise, atmosphere tense, men knew what they were facing. Acting Captain Scott. Tharkian missiles will be able to strike at the Klingons, but only much closer. Not effective in space vacuum. Over confident of their superior strength, the Klingons were caught momentarily off guard when Scott ordered first strike missiles in two waves. Ships four and eight destroyed. Six and nine report slight damage. On the Klingon flagship, the coordinating admiral kept his head. Release primary and secondary missiles, two seconds delay, activate protective shields. Those puny dogs won’t know what hit them! Two successive blast waves will pulverize them. Even if it is only with the shock vibration of their own infernal force field. Trying to blanket the force field. The vibration they set up will shake the Enterprise to pieces. Scott’s secondary missiles will destroy first wave of Klingon missiles. Then he plans target transference, jettisoning three shuttlecraft. Enterprise full reverse thrust. The pre-set Klingon missiles homed in on the spot Enterprise had vacated, and found the alternative target of the shuttles. The battle, more of wits than of strength. Missile salvos. Scott knocks out the Klingon fleet, except the flagship. It’s closing, and Enterprise is out of missiles! The enemy flagship closes in for the finish, an act of ultimate revenge. The resistance movement on Morkol has overthrown the government, the Klingons are evacuating the planet. That will make the Klingon battle fleet hungry for revenge. They’ll redouble their efforts to smash Enterprise and then press home the attack on Thark. They are so near Uhura has the Klingon Admiral’s orders on monitor. They’re going to fire everything they’ve got left. Enterprise force-shield cannot stand up to a total bombardment at this range. The Klingon gunnery commander sits with his finger poised above the commit button. The Klingon Admiral wants to maneuver to where he can blast the lower pods away, and leave the command dome to drift helplessly while all the people perish slowly. Tharkian spheroids can cripple the Klingons completely. The spheroids are a mass of permanently orbiting sensors above Thark. A thousand spheroids homed in on Klingon ship. The Klingon video scanner fails. All the instruments in master control go haywire. The Klingons order the force shield to lift and fire massive salvo of rockets. The rockets hit the spheroids, nothing left of spheroids or Klingon flagship. Klingon master control officer in headgear with red band around head, big round green balls at ears, red mic at mouth. Kirk opens talks for Thark to join the Federation. He never wants to see Thark threatened by Klingons again. #91-106 no Klingon #107-118 no Klingon Annuals Joe 90 1969 Joe 90 Top Secret Comic Annual pp 38-43 untitled story no Klingon 1971 TV21 Annual 1971 pp 4-9 Captives in space no Klingon pp 48-52 Gateway to the future Prose story with artwork. Kirk investigates lifesigns on a dying planet. An old man greets the landing party and introduces himself as the Guradian of the Future. Kirk and Spock step through a gateway into a future Los Angeles overrun by militant hippies and discover that Earth has been invaded by Nobians. By changing the future, they can change it for their children. (w: unknown) pp 86-93 Planet of rejects no Klingon 1972 TV21 Annual 1972 pp 4-7 untitled story The Zodian Empire is hostile to the Federation. (w: unknown) 1972 Valiant and TV21 Summer Special pp 18-23 Star Trek (untitled story) The planet Fornia, deep in distant galaxy, people lived in peace for centuries. Calm suddenly and unexpectedly shattered. All over Fornia, research installations, power factories and dams were destroyed in one fearful instant! Attacked from space while Kirk and Spock are there on diplomatic visit. Tharrk – Attacked, and I submit, conquered in the name of the invincible Klingon Empire. I am Tharrk. I hereby proclaim myself military governor of this planet, which is of major strategic importance to our cause! From this second, all Fornians are slaves. Ah, members of our enemy, the Space Fedeartion. You will perish as spies, after I have explained the new power of the Klingons. Tharrk, beard, wearing sash over left shoulder, with belt. disruptor pistol in holster. Gloves with wide cuffs. Tunic with central circular design. Two aides with rifle in hand, pistol in side holster. Far above the planet lay a spacecraft of the most satanic purpose. It is a craft designed to project a destructive ray of intense light, for which there is no possible barrier! Tharkk felled by the famous Spock neck pinch. Kirk bangs two Klingon guards’ heads together Kirk orders Enterprise to leave orbit for safety. Fornia is swarming with Klingons. It is urgent Kirk and Spock find a way to destroy the Klingon ray-ship! Kirk doubts Klingons will be at the Fornian space observatory. They are far too confident of their power to need massive occupation. Tharkk’s forces are scouring the city for Kirk and Spock. Spock, after observing the elaborate Klingon craft, finds an obvious and simple chink in its armour. Super atmospheric meteorological probe, designed to draw power from a local star. Only two Klingon guards at the building storing all Fornia’s arms and explosives. Tharrk really does think he’s invincible. Kirk and Spock take them out. NNNggh! Urrgh! When Tharrk finds out Kirk and Spock have explosives, the Klingons are going to make some very wrong guesses. Tharkk – I intend to inflict no retribution on you. As yet. It seems the fools think they can blast my ship into submission! The idiots! One flash of the destructor-ray will reduce their puny probe to space-dust! Unless you deliver them to me, I will begin destroying hostages! Tharrk will think the probe is full of explosives. Waitng at the observatory for Kirk and Spock. Tharrk – Welcome gentlemen. I fear my intelligence officers were clever enough to trace your ally! Tharrk slaps Fornian astronomer Markan upside the head. Silence, dog! We shall witness the destruction of that pathetic bomb. The ray-ship is ready to fire. Activate destroyer beam! The beam lances out, strikes the reflective surface of the probe, and bounces back to the ray-ship. Tha-roooomm Tharrk - No! No! it cannot be! Spock neck pinches another Klingon. Kirk punches out the other two. So ends the Klingon threat to Fornia. Spock fancies the Fornian government will feel free to apply justice to Tharrk and his men. And the Federation will ensure that the planet is protected from further outrage. (w: unknown) 1973 TV21 Annual 1973 pp 3-9 Planet of the dead no Klingon pp 89-95 What is this thing called Spock? no Klingon 1978 Mighty TV Comic Annual pp 12-16 The gods have come no Klingon 1979 Mighty TV Comic Annual 1979 pp 49-53 untitled story no Klingon Radio Times 1970 no Klingon