STAR BLECCH IV: THE VOYAGE BOMBS

STAR TREK IV: THE VOYAGE HOME (1986)
dir: Leonard Nimoy

MAD #271, June 1987
w: Frank Jacobs
a: Mort Drucker

The crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise, Kirk (William Shatner), Spock (Leonard Nimoy), McCoy (Deforest Kelley), Uhura (Nichelle Nichols), Sulu (George Takei), Chekhov (Walter Koenig), and Scotty (James Doohan), is stranded on the planet Vulcan after the last movie. They returned Spock to his home planet to be revived, stealing the Enterprise against orders, then blowing it up when the Klingons were on it and then stealing their ship to get to Vulcan, Now they face court-martial.

Mark Lenard and Jane Wyatt appear briefly as Spock's parents.

As the crew is returnung home, there is an alien life form destroying the power of all vessels in uts path and issuing a signal that cannot be deciphered, and must be answered in order to be stopped. Spock determines the sound is the song of the humpback whale, a now-extinct species.

The crew must travel back in time to find two whales to duplicate the alien sounds, They go back to 80s San Francisco, and split into groups. Spock wears a headband to hide that he's an alien with different ears.

Kirk pawns possessions so everyone can have money, and he and Spock take a bus out to a zoo in Sausalito, where they find to whales, George and Gracie, when they are on a tour given by biologist Jillian Taylor (Catherine Hicks). Kirk keeps asking too many questions about the whales, Spock has dove into the tank to study them and determined one is pregnant. The two of them are dismissed as kooks and kicked out of the park. After work, Jillian sees them walking by the side of the road and she offers them a ride. She and Kirk end upgoing out on a date, where he admits he came from the future to take the whales and save the planet. Scotty and Dr. McCoy went to a plexiglass factory to get material for a tank to put the whales in, but in order to get it, had to pose as scientists.

Jillian beamed herself up into space with all the others, having no life on Earth without whales. The Enterprise crew goes to trial and their charges are all dropped because they saved the Earth. Except the penalty of disobeying a superior officer, for which Kirk is demoted from Admiral to Captain again. Jillian has become science officer in a different branch of Starfleet.

STAR DREK IV: THE VOYAGE BACK HOME TO THE FUTURE
Cracked #228, July 1987
w: Mort Todd
a: Bill Wray

Wendy Pini was the artist for a comic in the 80s called ElfQuest.

There was a bit where they noticed everyone was swearing, so they decided to swear too to blend in, but got it all wrong.

There's a scene where Chekhov is injured while trying to collect energy and taken to the hospital, and Kirk, McCoy, and Jillian pose as doctors to break him out.