The Corbomite Effect!
Sabotage… or Gremlins?

Background information
 This is one of only a very few Star Trek comics ever to feature a non-canon secondary character on the cover without any members of the main cast being present. The image depicts Engineer Debbie Upton on her fateful spacewalk.

Creators
 Based on Star Trek created by Gene Roddenberry
 Writer: Mike Carlin
 Artists: 
 Tom Sutton (pencil art)
 Ricardo Villagran (ink art)
 Michele Wolfman (color art)
 Agustin Mas (letter art)
 Joe Brozowski (cover pencil art)
 Bob Lewis (cover ink art)
 Editor: Robert Greenberger

Characters

Regular and recurring characters

 James T. Kirk   commanding officer, a Starfleet captain.
 Spock  Vulcan Half-Vulcan Starfleet captain serving as Enterprise-A exec and science officer.
Leonard McCoy  Enterprise-A CMO, a Starfleet commander.
Montgomery Scott  Starfleet captain serving as Enterprise-A chief engineer.
 Pavel Chekov  Enterprise-A security chief, a Starfleet commander. 
Uhura  Enterprise-A communications officer, a Starfleet commander. 
Hikaru Sulu  Enterprise-A helmsman, a Starfleet commander. 
M'Ress  Enterprise-A science officer. M'Ress appeared in two panels but had no dialogue.
 Federation president (see unnamed Federation president) : The Federation President. The President contacted the crew of the Enterprise-A personally shortly thereafter their light-marker visit to have them investigate the current condition of Gamma Trianguli VI.

Other characters
  Starfleet commander, with yellow uniform insignia patches, assigned to bridge command on the ship's night watch. Codobach was an alien with lizard-like green skin, bulbous pink eyes and a toothy snout.

Grosdun Starfleet pilot, with gray uniform insignia patches, assigned to the helm on the ship's night watch. Grosdun was an alien with pink skin, and a bulbous cone-shaped skull.

  Female Starfleet officer with green hair and blue goggles who gave the helm to Sulu when the day watch arrived.

Beel Red-haired Starfleet officer who gave tactical to Chekov when the day watch arrived.

Debbie Upton  Starfleet engineer. Debbie was a redhead in the comic, but was blonde on the cover.
Morlov  Starfleet engineering cadet.
Communications officer  Night watch communications officer. This officer was an alien with a noseless yellow face.

Mentioned
Hector o' th' Clyde  Ancient Scottish gremlin of myth.

References
Bon-Wan's Light Marker  Abandoned space buoy.
   Federation starship.
Gamma Trianguli VIPlanet
gremlin  Scotty takes to referring to gremlins as "corbomites".
pyro units  The ship's fire-fighting personnel.
Scotland
Scotland Tech.  Scotty's mother's alma mater'' was Scotland Tech.

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