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The Return of the Archons was a two-part comic story published by IDW Publishing in 2012, written by Mike Johnson, a loose adaptation of the original story of TOS episode: "The Return of the Archons" by Boris Sobelman. Adapting the story from the TOS series to a Kelvin timeline version, the two parts were the 9th and 10th issues of IDW's ongoing series of The Original Series comics.

Summary[]

Set after Vulcan's Vengeance, the fallout from the vendetta conspiracy results in the Enterprise being assigned on a mission to Beta III to recover the USS Archon. The crew is forced to defeat Landru, and also find out what Starfleet has been covering up.

Issues[]

Issue Writer(s) Artist(s) Published Image
#9: The Return of the Archons, Part 1 Mike Johnson, after Boris Sobelman Stephen Molnar May 2012 Cover image.
#9: The Return of the Archons, Part 2 Mike Johnson, after Boris Sobelman Stephen Molnar June 2012 Cover image.

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