Dilithium Dilemma is a Star Trek: The Original Series comic strip. It is the second story in the US Comic Strips series, published by the Los Angeles Times Syndicate. The story was set after TOS movie: The Motion Picture, depicting events from Captain Kirk's second five-year mission aboard the refurbished USS Enterprise (NCC-1701). In this story, written and drawn by Thomas Warkentin, a Klingon battlecruiser complicates the crew’s desperate mission to replace the ship’s fused dilithium crystals.