McDonald's Happy Meal Star Trek comic strips

Star Trek McDonald's Happy Meal comic strips

McDonald's Star Trek Meal
Happy Meals Star Trek: The Motion Picture tie-in packaged in six boxes. Five comic strips were printed on six boxes, each strip depicting scenes from the film (one strip was printed on two boxes). The writer is unknown. Comic strip art by Ron Villani. For more information, see The TMP Happy Meal Promotion by James Sawyer.

1979
Box features: Kirk, Klingons
Three Klingon cruisers on patrol in deep space are destroyed by an energy bolt from a giant cloud.

1979
Box features: Spock, Federation
The crew of Station Epsilon 9 witnesses the destruction of Klingon ships by a giant cloud headed for Earth.

1979
Box features: Ilia, Transporter
Station Epsilon 9 is destroyed by the giant cloud.

1979
Box features: Spock, Bridge
Station Epsilon 9 is destroyed by the giant cloud.

1979
Box features: McCoy, Bridge
Kirk returns to command the Enterprise and two crewmen die in a transporter accident.

1979
Box features: Decker, Spacesuit
Enterprise launches to stop the cloud, flames spurting from the nacelles.

Star Trek Video Communicator
One of several toys offered with McDonald's Star Trek Meals. Five brief comic strips are part of an unassembled toy sealed in cellophane. The toy communicators are about 1.5" x 3" with a one inch square screen and made of black or gray plastic. The antenna is 3.5" and the two cranks are a little under 1.5 inches. When assembled with the included instructions, the color comic strip can be scrolled in the view screen. Writer and artist unknown.

#1 1979
Star Trek Stars
The crew of the Enterprise is introduced and their mission identified.

#2 1979
A Pill Swallows the Enterprise
A capsule-shaped force field protects the Enterprise from a meteor.

#3 1979
Time and Time and Time Again
A transporter malfunction sends a crew member on a trip through time.

#4 1979
Votec's Freedom
The Enterprise releases Votec, taken prisoner so his people could escape from a war.

#5 1979
Starlight, Starfright
McCoy is abducted, so Kirk turns out the lights to get him back.

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