Star Trek 7 (Novel)
| Series | Star Trek |
| Published by | Bantam Books |
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| Written by | James Blish |
| Released | Jul 1972 |
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Board the Enterprise and journey with her crew to far-off worlds, where you will find:
- Greek gods and American Indians
- men who can live forever and other men who die of old age at twenty-nine
- a machine with the power to raise the dead and a woman whose tears can topple empires
Based on the exciting new NBC-TV series created by Gene Roddenberry.
Who Mourns for Adonais?
Adapted from the episode Who Mourns for Adonais?.
Written by Gilbert A. Ralston.
In the vicinity of planet Pollux IV, the Enterprise encounters a huge, green hand that materializes in space and holds the starship motionless. The "hand" is not flesh and blood, but a form of energy belonging to a humanoid figure who identifies himself as the god Apollo, last survivor of the band of space travelers who visited old Earth and dwelled on Mount Olympus. He declares the Enterprise crew to be his "children," who will now stay on Pollux IV and worship him. When Mr. Scott objects to the attention Apollo shows to Lieutenant Carolyn Palamas, he is hurled through the air by a thunderbolt from Apollo's hand. The "god" also demonstrates other abilities, including the power to grow to giant size at will. Kirk orders Lieutenant Palamas, who has fallen in love with Apollo, to reject him. Then, using the Enterprise's phasers, he destroys Apollo's temple, the source of the entity's power. Seeing that he has lost both his worshipers and his love, Apollo discontinues his physical existence to join his fellow gods.
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The Changeling
Adapted from the episode The Changeling.
Written by John Meredyth Lucas.
The Enterprise investigates the destruction of the Malurian system's four billion inhabitants and locates an unexpected source: a self-contained computer/space probe of great power called Nomad. The device threatens the Enterprise, but Kirk and crew are temporarily saved when Nomad mistakes Captain James Kirk for its creator, Human scientist Jackson Roykirk. Nomad, a space probe launched in 2002 to seek out alien life in the galaxy, was damaged by a meteor that confused its programming and cut it off from Earth. It then encountered an alien probe, Tan-Ru, which was launched to secure sterilized soil samples. The resulting hybrid mechanism believes that its mission is to destroy imperfect life forms. Its altered programming and weapons make "the changeling" capable of fulfilling its new mission. Kirk uses the machine's confused image of him as a basis for its destruction: he convinces Nomad that it is imperfect, and the device is transported out into space before it self-destructs.
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The Paradise Syndrome
Adapted from the episode The Paradise Syndrome.
Written by Margaret Armen.
Beaming down to a beautiful, Earth-like planet threatened by collision with a massive asteroid, James T. Kirk, Spock, and McCoy discover a village of peaceful, tribal Humans apparently descended from Earth's Native Americans. Near their village is a huge obelisk, covered in unknown writing. As Kirk explores the structure, he falls through a trap door and is exposed to a strange ray that renders him unconscious. Spock and McCoy fail to find him, and are forced to return to the Enterprise in order to attempt to divert the asteroid. Kirk awakens, suffering from partial amnesia, and is discovered by the tribe, who revere him as a god. The Enterprise fails to sufficiently divert the asteroid with high-powered phaser fire, and damages its engines in the process: the ship is forced to fly back to the planet at sublight speed, a journey that will take two months. During this time, Kirk falls in love with, and marries, the priestess Miramanee. Meanwhile, Spock deciphers the writing on the obelisk, which his tricorder had recorded, and learns that an ancient race, known as the Preservers, "seeded" the planet with transplanted Humans and provided an asteroid deflector to protect the settlement, housed within the obelisk. Kirk, now called Kirok, is named the new Medicine Chief, but he has no idea how to activate the obelisk, a secret that died with his predecessor, and Spock and McCoy beam down just as Kirk and Miramanee are being stoned by the frightened tribe for their failure to activate the obelisk. With Spock's aid, the obelisk is activated, the asteroid is deflected, and Kirk's memory is restored, but the pregnant Miramanee dies along with Kirk's unborn child.
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Metamorphosis
Adapted from the episode Metamorphosis.
Written by Gene L. Coon.
The Shuttlecraft Galileo is transporting ailing Assistant Federation Commissioner Nancy Hedford back to the Enterprise when it is suddenly drawn off course by a mysterious cloud creature. After depositing the shuttle on the planetoid Gamma Canaris N, the entity vanishes. Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and Commissioner Hedford then meet another castaway — revealed as Zefram Cochrane, the famed scientist from Alpha Centauri who discovered warp drive more than a century before. At the age of 87, Cochrane decided that he wanted to die in outer space, so he boarded a ship and headed away from Alpha Centauri, only to be waylaid by the cloud creature, which Cochrane calls the Companion. Kirk communicates with the Companion via the universal translator and learns that the entity is in love with Cochrane. Cochrane is unable to accept this, especially since he is attracted to Hedford. When Hedford's death is imminent, the Companion forsakes its immortal state to unite with the Human woman. Cochrane accepts the love of the Companion/Hedford and stays on the planet with her.
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The Deadly Years
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Elaan of Troyius
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