I KNEW IT!! I knew it was a documentary!!

One of the Enterprise crew got stuck back in the 60s and said screw it to the Temporal Prime Directive. DTI neve caught wind of it
DTI neve caught wind of it
DTI might have orchestrated it. Best way to keep Earth’s timeline on course is to give us a roadmap to follow!
Take out the garbage and get the fireworks.
Never give up, never surrender!
Illegal Roman Candles saved the world that day. Our suddenly world famous Questers moved to Missouri and founded a freewheeling, fireworks based spaceport.
Have you read TMP novelization?

Probably at least 20 times over his lifetime.
Slice of pie in lower right corner, right next to Chekov's boot! :::channels T'Pring::: EXPLAIN.
Well I didn't expect to actually find an answer, but apparently the artist regularly includes little objects like that in his comics. The number next to his signature is supposed to indicate how many there are to find.
For example, here's another one with the pie in it, with a number "1" indicating it's the only one.

That's deep sauce you served, honor to your tiny pie

So the third would be the eyeball next to Spock.
Yeah, and I assume the little alien in the upper right counts too?
Kang or Kodos?
I think it's partly marketing ... very clever marketing and brain hooks ... I just went to the comic website and looked at a few comics and yes most of them show that number and the cleverly hidden objects. But some of the comics don't have the same number of hidden objects (eg: some list 5 but you can only find 4) ... unless I'm doing it wrong and I just can't see it.
If the artist did purposefully list 5 things but only show 4 ... it would drive viewers mad trying to find something that isn't there. It would also become a very memorable comic because it would bug people so much they would keep going back to it again and again.
It's like that old college/high school prank people used to pass around years ago ... you release three big fat dirty pigs into a school and let them run wild. You spray paint each pig with a number .... 1, 2 and 4. Chances are authorities or school workers will find the three pigs but they'll take a bit of extra time looking for Pig #3 before realizing it didn't exist.
Also alien in the upper right and all seeing eye mid left.
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That ain't Chekov.
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I got nothin'
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Profit.
Profit!
I have an idea. Corporal, get me a video cassette of Star Trek, the TV show.

"There have been 12 shows with that name. Please specify with the full title."
This would have to be a time travel or alternate universe episode, because otherwise, if it was still in syndication in their normal time, then surely the human crew would already know about this.
Maybe there's just so much available that it's too obscure.
IMDB has about 300k shows, and that's presumably missing a lot. At the increasing rate that new TV shows have been created, there could be billions in another 200 years!
LLAP.
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