Marvel's association with the crew of the Enterprise began with a three issue adaptation of Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Despite the best efforts of writer Marv Wolfman and the art team of Dave Cockrum and Klaus Janson, the comic ended up just like the movie: visually appealing, but otherwise, dull.
Perhaps unsure how to handle the franchise, Marvel published 18 issues of the title, putting Kirk and company in rather odd situations, like the time they beamed down into a haunted house...
...and even though it ended up being a rather complex scheme involving the Klingons, it wasn't figured out before ghosts, monsters and even Dracula himself invaded the Enterprise.
In another issue, a mysterious force invades the Enterprise, 'possessing' crew members to attack one another. While Kirk and Spock beam down to the planet to find a solution, Bones works diligently in sick bay, tending to the victims of the attacks, when...
A visitor from Scotty's past seemed to be able to dredge up more than old feelings. Able to bring physical form to Scotty's subconscious memories of his ancestral folklore, it's not long before the Enterprise has to deal with a witch...
....and the Loch Ness Monster!
Kirk's feelings weren't spared either. When an old flame and her new husband beam aboard the Enterprise, Kirk is astonished to find out that her new husband is a highly evolved being of pure thought energy...
All in all, Marvel's 18 issues of Star Trek were largely forgettable, and when they lost the license in 1981, no one else picked it up until 1984, when DC Comics launched a Star Trek series that would last for the next 12 years.
Still, how bad could the series be if it introduced the world to the Travelocity Gnome?
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