"Magic Painting (2)" is the second of three unusual TOS coloring books featuring original stories that were published by Talbotworth in 1979. Rather than color the black & white illustrations with crayons or colored pencils, the pages have been chemically treated so that colors appear when clear water is brushed over them. In this story, the USS Enterprise confronted an unknown alien starship.
Summary[]
On the bridge of the USS Enterprise, Hikaru Sulu was at the helm when a red alert sounded. Approaching them was a huge, spherical starship with a large protruding rear engine module. The alien ship fired at the Enterprise, knocking the bridge crew to the floor unconscious. A group of uniformed humanoids blasted through the turbolift door and strode onto the bridge, wearing helmets that concealed their faces. The boarding party took Kirk, Spock, Leonard McCoy and Sulu with them at gunpoint, bringing them aboard their ship and locking them in a prison cell.
Kirk was able to knock out a security guard, and the officers escaped. They sneaked through corridors and located the vessel's bridge, finding it to be commanded by a large, glowing, humanoid skeleton-like head who floated in some sort of aquarium tank. It attacked them all with some sort of energy field, and Kirk retaliated by smashing the tank. Liquid spewed from the tank and equipment started to explode all around them. The officers fled through corridors and returned to the Enterprise just as the enemy vessel exploded.
References[]
Characters[]
- James T. Kirk • Leonard McCoy • Montgomery Scott • Spock • Hikaru Sulu • Nyota Uhura
Starships and vehicles[]
Locations[]
Races and cultures[]
- Human • Vulcan • unnamed races and cultures
States and organizations[]
Science and technology[]
- command chair • communicator • engine • rifle • rocket • transporter • turbolift • viewscreen
Ranks and titles[]
Other references[]
- alert status (red alert) • aquarium • assignment patch • bridge • bridge crew • corridor • helmet • K class star • skeleton • space • star • Starfleet uniform • Starfleet uniform (2265-2270) • uniform
Appendices[]
Related media[]
- TOS comic: "The Evictors" – A Sanoora world ship attacked the USS Enterprise while attempting to oust the Nrakans from their homeworld.
Background[]
- Pages were printed without captions, allowing for easy foreign distribution, but it meant that the story did not provide names for the alien starship, its personnel or the disembodied head.
- This book and "Magic Painting (1)" were both published with the label "Magic Painting".
- The alien vessel resembled a Sanoora world ship. Because the faces of ship's personnel were hidden, however, the similarity isn't enough to positively identify them as Sanoora for purposes of this wiki.
- The space battle depicted on the cover between the Enterprise and two rockets did not happen in the story.
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Connections[]
Timeline[]
| published order | ||
|---|---|---|
| Previous comic: Magic Painting (1) |
TOS coloring books | Next comic: Mystic Drawing |
| chronological order | ||
| Previous adventure: Magic Painting (1) |
Memory Beta Chronology | Next adventure: Forgotten History Department of Temporal Investigations Chapter 1 (pages 15-26) |
| Previous story: Magic Painting (1) |
Voyages of the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), Year Two | Next story: The Galileo Seven |
External link[]
- Coloring books article detailing the "Magic Painting" books at Mark Martinez's Star Trek Comics Checklist.