Partners?
The crew teams up with the Klingons!

Background information

Creators
 Based on Star Trek created by Gene Roddenberry
 Writer: Howard Weinstein
 Artists: 
 Ken Hooper (pencil art)
 Bob Dvorak (inking)
 Tom McCraw (color art)
 Bob Pinaha (letter art)
 Jerome K. Moore (cover art)
 Editor: Robert Greenberger

Characters

Regular and recurring characters

 James T. Kirk   captain. For some reason, Kirk sometimes wore the non-canon fleet captain insignia seen in some reference works.
 Spock  Vulcan Enterprise-A exec and science officer.
 Leonard McCoy  Enterprise-A surgeon.
 Uhura  Enterprise-A communications officer.
 Pavel Chekov  Enterprise-A navigator and security chief.
 Hikaru Sulu  Enterprise-A helmsman. Sulu appeared on the cover and in one interior panel but had no dialogue in the comic. For some reason he sat at the navigator station.
 Montgomery Scott  Enterprise-A chief engineer. Scotty appeared on the cover but had no dialogue or appearances in the comic.
Keydn  Klingon, captain of IKS qul HoH
Khezri  Klingon commodore, of IKS Qapla.
Sally Gallan  Needran mining director.
Zot Zandir  Gallan's assistant.
Exius  Tyrion commander.
Trevin  Tyrion, first lieutenant to Exius.

Other characters
 Anderson  Starfleet captain of USS Lafayette. Anderson wore the non-canon fleet captain insignia seen in some reference works.
 Myori  Starfleet commander assigned as science officer aboard USS Lafayette. It wasn't clear whether Ms. Myori was a commander or lieutenant commander.
Dabney  Doctor on McCoy's staff aboard Enterprise who reported the Klingon defense officer's desire to speak with Kirk and Spock.qul HoH defense officer : Klingon officer who reported that his station had been sabotaged, and that only himself, a deceased subordinate, or Keydn, could have done so.
Needran leader  Leader of the people of Needra.Lafayette helmsman : Dark-skinned Starfleet officer seated at the helm position on the bridge of Lafayette. This officer wore a deep blue turtleneck collar, indicating some sort of military specialty. He was apparently wounded or killed in the Tyrion attack.Lafayette navigator : Starfleet officer who wore a thick red visor while sitting at the navigation post on the Lafayette bridge. The visor was drawn similarly to that of Cyclops of the X-Men comics, whom this man resembled.Lafayette bridge officer : Starfleet officer, with a gray turtleneck collar, who announced the alien vessel fire to Captain Anderson, while helping a yellow-skinned medical officer back to his feet.
Yellow-skinned Lafayette medical crewman : Alien medic stationed on the Lafayette bridge.
Green-skinned Lafayette medical crewman : Alien medic stationed on the Lafayette bridge, who rushed around with a medikit helping wounded.Enterprise pilot : Dark-skinned officer, wearing the uniform of a navigator, who sat at the helm console aboard the Enterprise-A. He appeared to be wearing the insignia of either a commander or lieutenant commander.
Blue-skinned Enterprise crewman  Alien crewman, wearing a military dark-blue turtleneck collar, stationed on the Enterprise-A bridge.

References
Antle  Capital city of Needra.
Hubble frontier region
USS Lafayette (NCC-7033)  Federation light cruiser. The Lafayette had a crew of one-hundred, forty-two of whom perished in the Tyrion attack. Although the Lafayette seemed outwardly similar to a  vessel, it had a secondary hull structure slung between the warp drive's nacelles.
Needra  Planet, home to a mining settlement.
Needrans  Humanoid inhabitants of Needra.
Needran system  Star system.
IKS Qapla  Klingon battlecruiser.
IKS qul HoH  Klingon light cruiser.
Tyrions
Vanguard  Tyrion vessel. 

Partners, Part 1