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Colt on the run... from Starfleet? ...And it's Captain Kirk to the rescue?! — "Future Tense, Part Two" was the 13th issue of the Marvel Comics series of Star Trek: Early Voyages comics. It featured the second of a four-part arc in which Colt was sent into an alternate future.

Description[]

Colt gets thrown forward in time to an alternate future, thanks to a mysterious artifact, and lands on the bridge of... the Enterprise!

Summary[]

Log entries[]

Personal log, James T. Kirk.
Commander UFP Merchantman Bounty. I have an uneasy feeling about putting my friends' lives in jeopardy on this. The slenderest of hopes... but my gut tells me Mia Colt should not be here. If I can get her back, I can only wonder how different... how much better... all our lives will be...

References[]

Characters[]

ChangMia ColtJames T. KirkLamekChristopher PikeRenzoSaavikMontgomery ScottSpockHikaru SuluJosé TylerNyota UhuraYssirZhota
Referenced only
Stephen Garrovickunnamed Klingons (Chang's executive officer)

Starships and vehicles[]

Bounty (merchantman) • USS Enterprise (brig) • USS Enterprise (Constitution-class heavy cruiser) • USS Enterprise-A (Constitution-class) • Enterprise (space shuttle) • Phoenixunnamed D7 class starships (K't'inga-class Klingon battlecruiser)
Referenced only
USS Farragut

Locations[]

Earth (Phoenix TavernSan FranciscoSmithsonian Museum of Air, Sea and Space) • Federation-Klingon Neutral Zone
Referenced only
AlgolAlgol IINorgon V

Races and cultures[]

AndorianArcadianHumanKlingonTrillVulcan

States and organizations[]

FederationKlingon EmpireStarfleetStarfleet AcademyStarfleet Security

Science and classification[]

keepsakelaser pistolphoton torpedolong range sensorthrustertricordertype-2 phaserwarpweapons arraywrench

Ranks and titles[]

cadetcaptainengineerensignfirst officergeneralwarrioryeoman

Other references[]

assignment patchbridgecorridordecadeengine roomFederation Starfleet ranks (2270s-2350s)Great BirdhelmHyrinx warstormlegendlog entrymedicalmoneymonthmuseumopsorbitpersonal logquartersrefugeeshore leaveStarfleet uniform (2240s-2265)Starfleet uniform (2278-2350s)stuntattootaverntimetreewarp factor (warp eight) • year

Appendices[]

Related media[]

Background[]

  • The full title for this issue is "Future Tense, Part Two", continuing from the previous issue "Futures, Part One". This issue advertises the next as "Past Imperfect", but the issue was released under the title "Futures" again, but not given a part number.
  • The stardate for this issue is derived from the next issue, "Futures".
  • When Kirk said returning Colt to Algol would lead to a "greater reward that you can possibly imagine", Lamek answered with a retort similar to Han Solo's in Star Wars: "I can imagine an awful lot".
  • The full-page panel of three Enterprises on display at the Smithsonian in San Francisco was recreated in CG for The Roddenberry Archive project short "765874" in 2022. (Smithsonian in CG at YouTube.)

Images[]

Connections[]

Media featuring Christopher Pike
Episodes and movies The Original Series The CageThe Menagerie
Movies Star TrekkStar Trek Into Darknessk
Discovery Will You Take My Hand?BrotherNew EdenPoint of LightAn Obol for CharonSaints of ImperfectionThe Sound of ThunderLight and ShadowsIf Memory ServesProject DaedalusThe Red AngelPerpetual InfinityThrough the Valley of ShadowsSuch Sweet Sorrow
Short Treks Q&AThe Trouble with EdwardAsk Not
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Novels Killing TimeaEnterprise: The First AdventureVulcan's GloryLegacyThe RiftWhere Sea Meets SkyBurning DreamsA Less Perfect UnionaThe Children of KingsChild of Two WorldsDesperate HoursThe Enterprise WarThe High Country
Short stories "Conflicting Natures" • "A Private Anecdote" • "Sins of the Mother" • "The Greater Good"m
Comics Early Voyages "Flesh of My Flesh" • "The Fires of Pharos" • "Our Dearest Blood" • "Nor Iron Bars a Cage" • Cloak and Dagger (12) • "The Flat, Gold Forever" • "Immortal Wounds" • "One of a Kind" • The Fallen (12) • "Futures, Part One" • "Future Tense" • "Futures" • "Now and Then" • "Thanatos" • "Nemesis"
Starfleet Academy "Return to the Forbidden Planet" • "A Prelude to War"
Crew "Shadows of the Past" • "The Ends of Eternity"
other "All Those Years Ago..." • "To Walk the Night" • "Door in the Cage" • Alien Spotlight Alien Spotlight, Volume I (VulcansOrions) • Mirror Imagesm (1245) • Spock: Reflections, Issue 2Star Trek Movie Adaptationk (23456) • Captain's Log: PikeAftermath (123)
k : Kelvin timelinem : Mirror Universea : alternate reality

Timeline[]

Published Order
Previous story:
Futures, Part One
EV comics Next story:
Futures, Part Three
Previous story:
An Infinite Jest
Stories by:
Dan Abnett and Ian Edginton
Next story:
The Boy
Chronological Order
Previous adventure:
Futures, Part One
Memory Beta Chronology Next adventure:
Futures, Part Three

Production history[]

13 February 1998
First published by Marvel Comics.
September 2008
Re-released on The Complete Comic Book Collection DVD. (Graphic Imaging Technologies)
May 2009
Reprinted in Star Trek Omnibus, Volume 2. (IDW Publishing)
15 April 2014
Reprinted in The Stardate Collection's Volume 2 omnibus. (IDW Publishing)
15 February 2018
Collected in the Graphic Novel Collection's Volume 30 omnibus. (Eaglemoss Collections)
Translations[]
21 March 2018
Italian: Collected in the Italian release of Graphic Novel Collection, Volume 30: Primi Viaggi - Terza Parte. (RCS MediaGroup, ISSN 977228074425770030)

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