Malcolm and Joey in the transporter room My favorite of Gerry Conway’s Star Trek comic strip stories was his last one, “Getting Real.” It was unique in that it was told from the point of view of two junior high school kids who, in 1983, were beamed up to the starship Enterprise . I found myself getting carried away by all the ideas and questions that popped into my head as I was reading, inspired by all the things not answered in the tale. The story started when the two kids, Joey and Malcolm, walked outside of an arcade after their Defender game crashed. They heard a buzzing sound, and when they popped ’round the corner, they saw what they took to be William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and James Doohan about to get ready to promote the latest Star Trek movie. Joey asked for an autograph from Nimoy, who was made up to look like Mr. Spock. When asked how the boys knew who they were, Joey pointed to a poster on the wall behind them, which advertised Star Trek airing Saturdays on Channel...