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The supplements were separate "Comics Sections" entitled "Voyages of the Enterprise" (for ''Trek'' Comic Sections No.1 through No. 3) and simply "Star Trek" (for Sections No. 6 and No. 7). Comic Sections 4 and 5 do not exist and never did. The story goes that the warehouse of the printer used by the publication had a fire that destroyed all the art for Sections 4 and 5. The accepted explanation goes on to say that the Sections were never reconstructed or reprinted as the contract between the LA Times Syndicate and Paramount had lapsed such that the Syndicate could not legally supply additional copies of the art. Other than the abrupt ending in the middle of Story Arc #6 all the strips from 12/3/1979 through 7/21/1981 were published in supplements.
The supplements were separate "Comics Sections" entitled "Voyages of the Enterprise" (for ''Trek'' Comic Sections No.1 through No. 3) and simply "Star Trek" (for Sections No. 6 and No. 7). Comic Sections 4 and 5 do not exist and never did. The story goes that the warehouse of the printer used by the publication had a fire that destroyed all the art for Sections 4 and 5. The accepted explanation goes on to say that the Sections were never reconstructed or reprinted as the contract between the LA Times Syndicate and Paramount had lapsed such that the Syndicate could not legally supply additional copies of the art. Other than the abrupt ending in the middle of Story Arc #6 all the strips from 12/3/1979 through 7/21/1981 were published in supplements.
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In the late '90s, ''Star Trek Communicator'' columnist Rich Handley finished assembling a complete set of both the US and UK ''Star Trek'' comic strips (five years' worth of additional material had run from 1969-1973 in the United Kingdom). He offered the strips to both [[Pocket Books]] and [[WildStorm Comics|WildStorm Publishing]], both of which were very keen on reprinting both runs in their entirety, but this did not come to pass. [[John J. Ordover]], then editor of Pocket Books in charge of the ''Star Trek'' publications, said in a 2001 posting on the site Psi Phi (reproduced [http://www.well.com/~sjroby/lostbooks.html here]), that one reason the strips will likely never be published in an official bound (non-newspaper) version is that the "legal stuff is in a huge mess". Multiple syndicators in the US and Europe, different artist and writer contracts, and the inability of Paramount to even ''find'' the contracts made assessments of rights in the works and the resultant costs to publish them impossible. Initial plans for a printed collection were dropped after the hurdles to clear legalities became too overwhelming. The strips are in the process of being reprinted by [[IDW Publishing]] beginning in {{m|November|2012}}.
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In the late '90s, ''Star Trek Communicator'' columnist Rich Handley finished assembling a complete set of both the US and UK ''Star Trek'' comic strips (five years' worth of additional material had run from 1969-1973 in the United Kingdom). He offered the strips to both [[Pocket Books]] and [[WildStorm Comics|WildStorm Publishing]], both of which were very keen on reprinting both runs in their entirety, but this did not come to pass. [[John J. Ordover]], then editor of Pocket Books in charge of the ''Star Trek'' publications, said in a 2001 posting on the site Psi Phi (reproduced [http://www.well.com/~sjroby/lostbooks.html here]), that one reason the strips will likely never be published in an official bound (non-newspaper) version is that the "legal stuff is in a huge mess". Multiple syndicators in the US and Europe, different artist and writer contracts, and the inability of Paramount to even ''find'' the contracts made assessments of rights in the works and the resultant costs to publish them impossible. Initial plans for a printed collection were dropped after the hurdles to clear legalities became too overwhelming. The strips were reprinted by [[IDW Publishing]] beginning in {{m|November|2012}} in the ''[[Star Trek: The Newspaper Comics]]'' with the first ten stories collected in ''[[Star Trek: The Newspaper Comics, Volume 1|Volume 1]]'' and the last ten stories in ''[[Star Trek: The Newspaper Comics, Volume 2|Volume 2]]''.
==Research material==
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