The Crucial Element

Characters

 * David Bailey • Briggs • Hurst • James T. Kirk • Leonard McCoy • Spock • Vultra • unnamed USS Enterprise personnel • unnamed Vultrans

Starships and vehicles

 * USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) • Space Bug 4 (space wagon) • Space Bug 7 (space wagon) • Vultran shuttle • Vultran spaceship

Locations

 * Planets
 * Crucial-3 • Vultra


 * Shipboard
 * bridge • laboratory • quarters • workshop

Earth

Races and cultures

 * Human • Vulcan • Vultran • Valtarii tribesmen

States and organizations

 * Federation Starfleet • Vultran army • Vultran space fleet

Other references

 * bloodstream • brain • captain • Chief of the Vultran Army • cosmic shockwave • dictator • diplomacy • doctor • flood • infrared • laser-ray gun • mutiny • Noah's Ark • planet • poison • pollen • pollen irritation • prison • radio • star • starship • tape recorder • voice lock

Appendices

 * This story was published in four two-page sections over four consecutive weeks in issues seven to ten of the Joe 90: Top Secret magazine, starting from the 1st of March 1969.

Timeline
The presence of Bailey on the Enterprise places this story early in the year 2266, before the events of "The Corbomite Maneuver". The stardates for the issue place it before the preceding, and first, story arc in the UK comic strip series.