The world first encountered the final frontier in the swinging ‘60s – but what if the Enterprise first flew in some very different decades? As Star Trek Into Darkness opens in the UK, SFX peeks into some parallel worlds...
STAR TREK – 1890s
FIRST SEEN: A weekly ripping yarn in the pages of Roddenberry’s Illustrated Penny Marvel .
THE FIVE YEAR MISSION: Flagship of Her Majesty’s Starfleet, the valiant vessel Enterprise seeks out new life, new civilisations and new foreign devils to blast asunder with photon cannons.
SPOCK FACTOR: HMS Enterprise’s science officer is Spock the Infinitely Inexplicable, mystery-shrouded mandarin from the puzzling world of Vulcan.
CLASSIC ADVENTURE: “A Most Vexatious Entanglement With Tribbles”
STAR TREK – 1930s
FIRST SEEN: A 15 chapter serial from Hollywood cliffhanger merchants Federation Pictures.
THE FIVE YEAR MISSION: When space tyrant Khan the Cruel unleashes his fearsome Doomsday Machine, Captain Jimmy “Tiger” Kirk and the two-fisted crew of space-sub Enterprise boldly go to Mars and punch his ugly mush.
SPOCK FACTOR: “Mister” SPOCK-33X is a marvel of the age, a living metal man whose amazing logic ray zaps apart any argument in the universe.
CLASSIC ADVENTURE: “Chapter Twelve – Where No Rocketman Has Gone Before”
STAR TREK – 1950s
FIRST SEEN: Cheapie flicks for the drive-in market. Hey, Roddenberry, quit the social metaphors, we’re neckin’ here!
THE FIVE YEAR MISSION: SHUDDER at the MENACE of SPACE COMMUNISM! SCREAM at the MARIJUANA MADNESS of SPOCK’S BRAIN! THRILL to the LOVE-CRAZED GIRLS of THE NAKED TIME!
SPOCK FACTOR: Planet Vulcan’s coolest cat, this green-blooded groover makes the space chicks flip their lids, dig?
CLASSIC ADVENTURE: “I Was A Teenage Klingon”
STAR TREK – 1970s
FIRST SEEN: Primetime TV. Not-so-primetime TV. Late-night reruns. A desolate convention hall in Milwaukee.
THE FIVE YEAR MISSION: From Andorian pushers to Romulan junkies to Orion hookers turning tricks for interplanetary pimp Harry Mudd, there’s a galaxy of sleaze to take down in Jim Kirk’s precinct…
SPOCK FACTOR: Enter the Vulcan! A blur of fists, an even bigger blur of unfathomable alien wisdom.
CLASSIC ADVENTURE: “Amok Boogie”
Words: Nick Setchfield Art: Mike Collins
Netflix hit legal drama The Lincoln Lawyer is coming back for season 4 and this time Scream star Neve Campbell will be in every episode
The Night Agent star admits that he isn't too concerned about it being one of Netflix's most watched shows of all time: "If the whole world hated it but all the crew was proud of it, I'd be fine"
