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Saturday, September 23, 2023
STAR BLECCH III: THE SEARCH FOR PLOT
STAR TREK III: THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK (1984)
dir: Leonard Nimoy
STAR BLECCH III: THE SEARCH FOR PLOT
MAD #251, December 1984
w: Arnie Kogen
a: Mort Drucker
Continuing where the last film has left off, Spock (Leonard Nimoy) has electrocuted himself so that everyone else so that the rest of the enterprise could live, and was given a burial into space, hopefully to land on the planet Genesis, the project of a branch bringing life to dead planets. Capt. Kirk )William Shatner) is giving a eulogy with Sulu (George Takei), Chekhov (Walter Koenig), McCoy (DeForest Kelley), Uhura (Nichelle Nichols), and Scotty (James Doohan) in attendance.
The Klingons, led by Commander Kruge (Christopher Lloyd) have intercepted a message about Genesis and are going the to find its secrets.
Lloyd had previously been in Taxi
They have returned to Earth and McCoy has been acting strangely. The Enterprise is to be decommissioned and Spock's father Sarek confronts Kirk about why Spock was not given a proper Vulcan burial. Sarek mind-melds with Kirk to find out why.
Lt. Saavik (Robin Curtis) and Kirk's son David Marcus (Merrit Butrick) are part of the team that have come to Genesis and have discovered Spock has been reborn. McCoy was detained because of his insanity and it's been figured out that when he was trying to stop Spock from sacrificing himself and Spock paralyzed him, he transferred his mind into McCoy's and the Enterprise crew breaks him out. They steal the Enterprise to get to Genesis and bring back Spock, pursued by the much larger Starship Excelsior, and outrun it.
The Klingons are hot on the Enterprise's tail and beat them to Genesis, demanding to know the secret to its life-giving properties and holding Saavik, Marcus, and child Spock hostage. David tries to stop the Klingons but dies diong so. Kruge threatens to have his soldiers take over the Enterprise if they don't give in. The Enterprise crew tricks the Klingons by beaming the Klingons up, but beaming themselves down at the same time and blowing the ship up, so now it's just Kirk and Kruge mano a mano. And phasers.
Having defeated Kruge by letting him fall into a volcano, they bring a barely-alive Spock back to his home planet. T'Lar (Dame Judith Anderson) helps revive spock's body. And he slowly comes to remembering who Kirk and all his friends are again.
Do I really have to tell you who James Bond, Indiana Jones, Superman, Rocky, Jaws. and Darth Vader are? Though it is strange they used Sean Connery rather than Roger Moore
MAD #251, December 1984
w: Don Edwing
a: Don Martin
Cover to the Mexican edition.
The British one.
The Brazilian one.
STAR DREK III: THE SEARCH FOR SPOOK
Cracked #209, January 1985
a: John Severin
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