This two-part story is based on the televised episode
of the same name from the original Star Trek TV
series.
In the original timeline, it seemed that Kirk's brother went
by his middle name "Sam". Presumably, the middle name was
used by his family to avoid confusion with his father, with whom he shared
the first name "George". In the new timeline, George Sr.
died while the boy was still very young, so the confusion of
names was not an issue and he was referred to as George, as
he is in this story.
This story gives the impression that after George Jr. left
the family in "Parallels", he
never returned nor even stayed in touch with his mother and
Jim.
Kirk's brother and sister-in-law remain alive by the end of
this story. In the original episode, George (Sam) was found
already dead early on and his wife died in sickbay due to
the effects of the parasite.
On page 5, George reveals that his son, Peter, is 8 years
old. In the original timeline, George had two other children
who died before the events of "Operation: Annihilate" (as
revealed in the episode "What Are Little Girls Made Of?"),
but it is implied in this issue that he has only the one son
in the Kelvin timeline.
On page 11, an Ensign Ku is found unconscious in the
transporter room after George sneaks back to the planet to
rescue his family. A Lt. Ku was seen as the science officer
of the Enterprise-E in the 24th Century in
"Countdown" Part 2 and
Part 4.
Yeoman Zahra (whom we met in
"Operation
Annihilate" Part 1)
calls Kirk to the transporter room when Ku is found
unconscious, but it is not Zahra who greets him there, but
Yeoman Rand.
On page 17, Scotty remarks on shooting ultraviolet waves
toward the planet through a transmagnesite filter to kill
the neural parasites. In the original episode, it was a
combination of trimagnesite and trevium that did the job.
All three appear to be
fictional compounds.
Spock's self-experimentation under ultraviolet radiation to
kill the parasite in his body temporarily robs him of his
sight. The main damage was done to his inner eyelid, an
organ present in Vulcans. Dr. McCoy remarks that his
eyesight is slowly returning, but he needs to see
a Vulcan ophthalmologist. Unfortunately, they're not sure
there are still any around after the destruction of Vulcan
in "The Vengeance of
Nero".
In the original episode, the ultraviolet radiation emitted
by the satellites kills the parasites. In this story, it
merely incapacitates them and frees the infected from the
parasites' neurological control.
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On pages 19-20, we see Spock and
Uhura in what appears to be Spock's
quarters. Many of the decorations
seen here have been seen in Spock's
quarters in various episodes of the
original series. We see a
three-dimensional chess set, a
Vulcan harp, Vulcan bells, an
engraved chest, and a, uh, roundish
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