Vibrations in Time

Vibrations in Time was a 15-page Star Trek: The Original Series comic strip. It was the 24th weekly story arc in the UK comic strips series, published in five installments in TV21 Weekly in. This was the last of six stories drawn by Vicente Alcázar and Carlos Pino. In this story, a temporal disruption sent the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) into the past.

Publisher's description

 * Teaser, September 11, 1971
 * The starship Enterprise passed through a strange time warp and found itself eight hundred years in the past, in orbit above the planet . Knowing from historical records that the planet was shortly doomed to explode, Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock and two crewmen went down to see if Zelkot was inhabited…

Summary
During the night shift, the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) traveled through an astral storm that knocked out the crew and sent the starship a great distance through space. As the ship approached a planet known to have self-destructed, they were stunned to discover that they had time traveled. The planet would be dead in two weeks, so Kirk took a landing party with him aboard the Galileo to explore the world.

After narrowly avoiding gigantic ants and walking through an abandoned humanoid city, the crew spotted a herd of gorillas that were beckoning them. Kirk landed the shuttlecraft near a fortress and met, the last surviving Zeltok humanoid. Armies of intelligent Zeltok ants had destroyed his people's civilization, but the sentient gorillas had protected him, and he intended to die in their company. Kirk told him about the planet's impending destruction and offered to take him to safety. Karn preferred to stay with the gorillas. As the ants began an assault on the fortress, missiles from the shuttle repelled some of the ants, though the onslaught seemed to be unstoppable. Karn stole a phaser and insisted that the Galileo leave without him.

The shuttle returned to the Enterprise. As the starship left orbit, it was caught in another astral storm, which returned it to the 2260s. The transit erased the crew's memories of their travel into the past, leaving only a minor mystery: a missing phaser.

Characters

 * • James T. Kirk • Sankey • Montgomery Scott • Spock • Nyota Uhura • Joe Wells

Starships and vehicles

 * USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) ( heavy cruiser) • Galileo (class F shuttlecraft)

Locations

 * Perseant Alpha system •

Earth

Races and cultures

 * Human • Vulcan • Zeltok • Zeltok ant • Zeltok gorilla

States and organizations

 * Federation

Science and technology

 * communications • probe • missile • phaser • translator communicator • viewscreen

Ranks and titles

 * captain • chief engineer • crewman • Federation Starfleet ranks (2260s) • rank • sentry • skipper • Starfleet ranks

Other references

 * 15th century • assignment patch • astral storm • atmosphere • beard • boulder • bridge • city • duty shift • gorilla • gravity • holocaust • hour • humanoid • mile • minute • orbit • quarters • Starfleet uniform • Starfleet uniform (2265-2270) • time warp • universe • year

Background

 * This story was not printed with a title, but it was given one ("Vibrations in Time") for its reprinting in the omnibus The Classic UK Comics, Volume 2.
 * This was the final story arc printed in TV21 Weekly magazine. IPC Publications merged the weekly with another comic strip anthology called Valiant, and the combined entity was relaunched as Valiant and TV21 in October 1971. The UK comic strips series continued in the new magazine with a different creative team.
 * Galileo made its third of four appearances in the UK comic strips series. It also appeared in "The Mimicking Menace" by Gold Key Comics.

Related stories

 * – A similar vibration effect brought the Enterprise forward into the 33rd century.
 * – Crucial III similarly self-destructed shortly after it was visited by the Enterprise.
 * – An Enterprise landing party encountered giant ants and humanoids on Kwettir.

Chronology

 * 1465 : The USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) arrived 800 years and two weeks into the past.
 * 2265 : After time travel, the Enterprise crew had no memory or evidence of their adventure, except that a phaser was missing.

Production history

 * None of the UK weekly installments were printed with titles.
 * Each segment began on the cover and continued onto two interior pages of TV21 Weekly magazine.


 * : Pages 1-3 published in TV21 Weekly #101.
 * : Pages 4-6 published in TV21 Weekly #102.
 * : Pages 7-9 published in TV21 Weekly #103.
 * : Pages 10-12 published in TV21 Weekly #104.
 * : Pages 13-15 published in TV21 Weekly #105.
 * December 2016 : Reprinted in the omnibus The Classic UK Comics, Volume 2 (IDW Publishing)
 * 1 February 2018 : Reprinted in the omnibus Graphic Novel Collection #29 (Eaglemoss)
 * December 2016 : Reprinted in the omnibus The Classic UK Comics, Volume 2 (IDW Publishing)
 * 1 February 2018 : Reprinted in the omnibus Graphic Novel Collection #29 (Eaglemoss)