Coloring Book C1862, second story

Coloring Book C1862, second story was an original story printed in Coloring Book C1862, a coloring book anthology published by Saalfield Publishing in. The story spawned out of a one-page illustration of Spock making emergency repairs which originally appeared in the 1967 anthology A Book to Color.

In this story, the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) was damaged by a meteor strike.

Summary
After the Enterprise passed a small space station, James T. Kirk redirected the ship's course past an unidentified, cratered planet. Suddenly a large object approached the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701). Spock reported it to be fallout from a giant meteor. Unable to evade it in time, it struck the ship's left warp engine nacelle. Spock was able to make repairs before power failed.

Characters

 * James T. Kirk • Spock • Hikaru Sulu • Nyota Uhura

Starships and vehicles

 * USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) ( heavy cruiser) • space station • spacecraft

Races and cultures

 * Human • Vulcan

States and organizations

 * Starfleet (command division • operations division • sciences division)

Science and technology

 * stylus • tricorder • warp engine

Ranks and titles

 * captain • Federation Starfleet ranks (2260s) • Starfleet ranks

Other references

 * References in the story
 * assignment patch • bridge • meteor • Starfleet uniform • Starfleet uniform (2265-2270)


 * References in games
 * Galileo (class F shuttlecraft)

Background

 * Editor Burton Marks was credited with expanding the three stories originally published in A Book to Color into four stories. (Star Trek coloring books article at the Star Trek Comics Checklist website)
 * While many illustrations were new, six pages from this story were repurposed from "A Book to Color, third story". The artwork on pages 4, 19, and 22 appeared unaltered from the other story, while the art on pages 5, 8 and 20 appeared with modifications. Page 16's artwork came from "A Book to Color, second story".
 * Two of the new illustrations from this story were reused in Saalfield Publishing's other Star Trek coloring book released in 1975, Coloring Book C1856. Page 22 became that book's title page. The drawing of the Enterprise added to page 5 was reused as the introductory image of the starship in that book.
 * Similar to, damage was repaired by Spock from underneath the sciences station on the bridge, rather than requiring a damage control team.
 * Ship's damage was described as a hit to the "solar panel", an over-simplification for young readers.

Related stories

 * – Other instances when meteor damage was repaired on the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701).