Trivia / Star Trek: Early Voyages

• Ascended Fanon: It has been a popular assumption in Star Trek fandom for many years that Spock was the first Vulcan to join Starfleet but this was never mentioned in either Star Trek: The Original Series or the films. "Flesh of My Flesh" incorporates it into the canon of Early Voyages.
• Similarly Named Works:
  • "The Fallen" has the same title as a Star Trek: Deep Space Nine video game.
  • "Future Tense" shares its title with an episode of Star Trek: Enterprise which likewise involves Time Travel.
  • "Nemesis" has the same title as both a then recently aired episode of Star Trek: Voyager and the tenth Star Trek film.
• What Could Have Been:
  • The character designs contained in the Early Voyages Sketchbook at the end of the fourth issue "Nor Iron Bars a Cage" include an illustration of Chief Petty Officer Garrison, a minor character from "The Cage". However, he does not appear in any of the series' seventeen issues, making him the only named Enterprise crewmember from "The Cage" who is entirely absent from Early Voyages.
  • The writers Dan Abnett and Ian Edington noted in the Subspace Chatter letters page of "Nemesis", the seventeenth and final issue, that they had planned a flashback story, related by Captain Pike's father Admiral Josh Pike, concerning the Federation's disastrous first contact with the Klingon Empire.