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Hello All:
I found this on compuserve and thought it would be of intrest of
internet users who are looking for a good guide to Star Trek books.
STAR TREK BOOK GUIDE
As of May 31, 1994
Compiled by
Arnold E. van Beverhoudt, Jr.
71777,2365
Dear Star Trek Fan,
Over the years I've been maintaining this Star Trek book guide and a separate
guide to the Star Trek episodes on dBase III+. I hope you find it useful. If
you share this file with anyone else, please keep this page as part of the
file. I would welcome any comments, suggestions, or corrections.
Look for file TREKTV.TXT for a similar guide to all of the TOS, TAS, TNG, and
DS9 episodes and the feature films.
Arnold
STAR TREK BOOK GUIDE
As of May 31, 1994
Book Title PB Date HC Date Authors Synopsis
--------------- ------- ------- ---------------- ------------------------------
STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES
Bantam Books Original Series Adaptations
Star Trek 1 01/67 James Blish Adaptations of: Charlie X,
Dagger of the Mind, Man Trap,
Balance of Terror, The Naked
Time, Miri, and The Conscience
of the King.
Star Trek 2 02/68 James Blish Adaptations of: Arena, A Taste
of Armageddon, Errand of
Mercy, Court-Martial,
Operation: Annihilate, The
City on the Edge of Forever,
and Space Seed.
Star Trek 3 04/69 James Blish Adaptations of: The Trouble
with Tribbles, The Last
Gunfight, The Doomsday
Machine, Assignment: Earth,
Friday's Child, and Amok Time.
Star Trek 4 07/71 James Blish Adaptations of: All Our
Yesterdays, The Devil in the
Dark, Journey to Babel, The
Menagerie, The Enterprise
Incident, and A Piece of the
Action.
Star Trek 5 02/72 James Blish Adaptations of: Whom Gods
Destroy, The Tholian Web, Let
That Be Your Last Battlefield,
This Side of Paradise,
Turnabout Intruder, Requiem
for Metuselah, and The Way to
Eden.
Star Trek 6 04/72 James Blish Adaptations of: The Savage
Curtain, The Lights of Zetar,
The Apple, By Any Other Name,
The Cloud Minders, and The
Mark of Gideon.
Star Trek 7 07/72 James Blish Adaptations of: Who Mourns for
Adonis, The Changeling, The
Paradise Syndrome,
Metamorphosis, The Deadly
Years, and Elaan of Troyius.
Star Trek 8 11/72 James Blish Adaptations of: Spock's Brain,
The Enemy Within, Catspaw,
Where No Man Has Gone Before,
Wolf in the Fold, and For the
World Is Hollow and I Have
Touched the Sky.
Book Title PB Date HC Date Authors Synopsis
--------------- ------- ------- ---------------- ------------------------------
Star Trek 9 08/73 James Blish Adaptations of: Return to
Tomorrow, The Ultimate
Computer, That Which Survives,
Obsession, The Return of the
Archons, and The Immunity
Syndrome.
Star Trek 10 02/74 James Blish Adaptations of: The
Alternative Factor, The
Empath, Galileo Seven, Is
There in Truth No Beauty, A
Private Little War, and The
Omega Glory.
Star Trek 11 04/75 James Blish Adaptations of: What Are
Little Girls Made of, The
Squire of Gothos, Wink of an
Eye, Bread and Circuses, Day
of the Dove, and Plato's
Stepchildren.
Star Trek 12 11/77 James Blish - Adaptations of: Patterns of
J.A. Force, The Gamesters of
Lawrence-Blish Triskelion, And the Children
Shall Lead, The Corbomite
Maneuver, and Shore Leave.
Mudd's Angels 05/78 J.A. Adaptations of: Mudd's Woman,
Lawrence-Blish I Mudd, and The Business as
Usual During Altercations
(original story).
Ballantine Books Animated Series Adaptations
Star Trek Log 1 06/74 Alan Dean Foster Adaptations of: Beyond the
Farthest Star, Yesteryear, and
One of Our Planets Is Missing.
Star Trek Log 2 09/74 Alan Dean Foster Adaptations of: The Survivor,
The Lorelei Signal, and The
Infinite Vulcan.
Star Trek Log 3 01/75 Alan Dean Foster Adaptations of: Once Upon a
Planet, Mudd's Passion, The
Magicks of Megas-Tu.
Star Trek Log 4 03/75 Alan Dean Foster Adaptations of: The Terratin
Incident, Time Trap, and More
Tribbles More Troubles.
Star Trek Log 5 08/75 Alan Dean Foster Adaptations of: The Ambergris
Element, The Pirates of Orion,
and Jihad.
Star Trek Log 6 03/76 Alan Dean Foster Adaptations of: Albatross, The
Practical Joker, and How
Sharper Than a Serpent's
Tooth.
Book Title PB Date HC Date Authors Synopsis
--------------- ------- ------- ---------------- ------------------------------
Star Trek Log 7 06/76 Alan Dean Foster Adaptation of: The
Counter-Clock Incident.
Star Trek Log 8 08/76 Alan Dean Foster Adaptation of: The Eye of the
Beholder.
Star Trek Log 9 02/77 Alan Dean Foster Adaptation of: Bem.
Star Trek 01/78 Alan Dean Foster Adaptation of: Slaver Weapon.
Log 10
Bantam Books Short Story Collections
The New Voyages 03/76 (Editors) Sondra Short stories: Ni Var,
Marshak - Myrna Intersection Point, The
Culbreath Enchanted Pool, Visit to a
Weird Planet Revisited, Face
on the Barroom Floor, The
Hunting, The Winged Dreamers,
and The Mindsifter.
The New 01/78 (Editors) Sondra Short stories: Surprise, Snake
Voyages 2 Marshak - Myrna Pit, The Patient Parasite, In
Culbreath the Maze, Marginal Existence,
The Procrustean Petard, and
The Sleeping God.
Bantam Books Novels
Spock Must Die 02/70 James Blish The Enterprise crew is caught
in an undeclared war with the
Klingons, and while
transporting to Organia, Spock
becomes two, one good and one
evil.
Spock, Messiah 09/76 Theodore A defective mind meld turns
Cogswell - logical Mr. Spock into a fiery
Charles Spano revolutionary who sets out to
convert the planet Kyros with
fire, sword, and forbidden
philosophy.
The Price of 07/77 Sondra Marshak - After the shock of Kirk's
the Phoenix Myrna Culbreath death, Spock is forced into a
desperate gamble against Omne,
emperor of the underworld, for
Kirk's soul and renewed life.
Planet of 08/77 Joe Haldeman The Enterprise stumbles onto a
Judgment mysterious planet that is
orbited by a black hole, and
where a strange race
overpowers the laws of nature.
Vulcan 09/78 Kathleen Sky Spock and a beautiful, but
bigoted, scientist who hates
Vulcans are sent on a deadly
assignment on a planet of
ant-like creatures.
Book Title PB Date HC Date Authors Synopsis
--------------- ------- ------- ---------------- ------------------------------
The Starless 11/78 Gordon Eklund Inside the hollow shell of a
World remote planet, the Enterprise
crew discovers a world within
a world, with a white dwarf
star at its center.
Trek to 01/79 Stephen Goldin The Enterprise crew travels to
Madworld an eerie sector of space to
save the endangered people of
Epsilon Delta IV, and
confronts Enowil, the mad
gnome master of this insane
planet.
World Without 02/79 Joe Haldeman On Chatalia, an artificial
End world inhabited by furry
winged creatures, the
Enterprise crew is faced with
the creatures' awesome powers
and roving Klingon killers.
The Fate of the 05/79 Sondra Marshak - Kirk and Spock, aided by
Phoenix Myrna Culbreath Romulan Commander Ael, face
the reborn Omne, the immortal
evil villan who has vowed
revenge for his earlier
defeat.
Devil World 11/79 Gordon Eklund Kirk falls in love with a
beautiful, but mysterious,
woman on Heartland, a planet
populated by a race of
terrifying demonic beings.
Perry's World 02/80 Jack Haldeman II The Enterprise crew is trapped
between the sub-human Immunes
and Klingons on a planet ruled
by a human who has supposedly
been dead for 300 years.
Galactic 10/80 David Gerrold The Enterprise attempts to
Whirlpool rescue a lost human colony who
believe the crew members are
demons and are unaware that
they are drifting towards the
churning whirlpool at the
galactic core.
Death's Angel 04/81 Kathleen Sky Kirk and Spock barely survive
the mind-destroying plants on
Delta Gamma IV, while McCoy
faces charges for the murder
of Federation diplomats
aboard the Enterprise.
Pocket Books Novels
Star Trek: The 12/79 Gene Roddenberry Novelization of: Star Trek:
Motion Picture The Motion Picture.
Book Title PB Date HC Date Authors Synopsis
--------------- ------- ------- ---------------- ------------------------------
The Entrophy 06/81 Vonda McIntyre A brilliant, but criminal,
Effect scientist kills Kirk and
throws the universe into a
deadly time warp, and Spock
must travel back in time to
avert the disaster before it
happens.
The Klingon 10/81 Robert Vardeman When the Enterprise is ordered
Gambit to challenge a Klingon battle
cruiser, the crew finds that a
Vulcan research ship has been
destroyed and that their minds
are being affected by a
Klingon device.
Covenant of the 12/81 Howard Weinstein An Enterprise shuttlecraft
Crown carrying Spock, McCoy, and the
beautiful heir to the Shaddan
throne crash lands on a barren
planet, where they must fight
for survival against Klingon
scouts and primitive natives.
The Prometheus 03/82 Sondra Marshak - The Enterprise is sent on a
Design Myrna Culbreath mission to investigate the
mysterious wave of violence
that has overtaken the
Helvans, and come face to face
with the chaos caused by a
mind experiment by an alien of
unimaginable power.
The Abode of 05/82 Lee Carrey The Enterprise, crippled and
Life in need of urgent repairs,
arrives at Mercan, a planet
whose sun is prone to deadly
radioactive flare-ups, but
whose citizens live in a
culture that cannot conceive
of life outside their own
world.
Star Trek II: 07/82 Vonda McIntyre Novelization of: Star Trek II:
The Wrath of The Wrath of Kahn.
Kahn
Black Fire 01/83 Sonni Cooper While investigating sabotage
aboard the Enterprise, Spock
finds himself in an alliance
with the Romulans and Klingons
against the blood-thirsty
Tomari race, but is considered
a traitor by the Federation.
Book Title PB Date HC Date Authors Synopsis
--------------- ------- ------- ---------------- ------------------------------
Triangle 03/83 Sondra Marshak - Kirk and Spock are both
Myrna Culbreath inexplicably attracted to the
same woman, Federation free
agent Sola Than, as they all
face the collective mind of
the Totality, the most
powerful force ever unleashed
on the galaxy.
Yesterday's Son 08/83 Ann C. Crispin While he is studying the
Guardian of Forever, Spock
learns that Zarabeth had born
him a son 5,000 years ago, and
the Romulans attack the
gateway planet.
Mutiny on the 10/83 Robert Vardeman The Enterprise is crippled in
Enterprise orbit around a strange, living
planet, and an alien woman on
board is inciting the crew to
a pacifist mutiny.
The Wounded Sky 12/83 Diane Duane On a test of an experimental
intergalactic inversion
(transwarp) drive, the
Enterprise faces not only the
Klingons, but a tear in the
fabric of space-time.
The Trellisane 02/84 David Dvorkin The Enterprise rushes to
Confrontation war-torn Trellisane, where a
bizzare turn of events has
Kirk on the bridge of a
Klingon battlecruiser, McCoy
dining with cannibals on the
planet, and the Enterprise
surrounded by Romulans.
Corona 04/84 Greg Bear An awesome sentient force of
protostars known as Corona
takes control of a stranded
team of Valean scientists, and
the Enterprise arrives on a
rescue mission with a
troublesome female reporter
and a new computer that can
over-ride Kirk's orders.
The Final 05/84 John Ford On board the Enterprise during
Reflection shore leave, Kirk relives the
life and culture of the
Klingons and learns about
Klingon Captain Krenn's secret
battle to preserve peace, as
he reads the popular Klingon
history "The Final
Reflection."
Book Title PB Date HC Date Authors Synopsis
--------------- ------- ------- ---------------- ------------------------------
Star Trek III: 06/84 Vonda McIntyre Novelization of: Star Trek
The Search for III: The Search for Spock.
Spock
My Enemy, My 07/84 Diane Duane Romulan Commander Ael is a
Ally noble and dangerous foe, but
when she learns that Romulan
scientists are kidnapping
Vulcans for mind-control
experiments, she joins Kirk
and the Enterprise to destroy
the research lab and return
honor to the Romulan name.
The Tears of 09/84 Melinda The Enterprise crew and the
the Singers Snodgrass Klingons join in an uneasy
truce to investigate the
semi-aquatic creatures of
Taygeta, whose jewel-like
tears have resulted in their
being hunted to extinction,
thus causing the formation of
a dangerous space-time warp.
The Vulcan 11/84 Jean Lorrah While Kirk, Spock, and McCoy
Academy Murders are on Vulcan seeking an
experimental treatment for a
badly wounded crewman, they
become involved in a series of
murders where Spock's mother
is one of the victims.
Uhura's Song 01/85 Janet Kagan The songs Uhura learned years
ago from a friend from the
cat-like Eeiauoau race become
the key to stopping a plague
that may kill the entire
population of the planet.
Shadow Lord 03/85 Laurence Yap Spock and Sulu join Prince
Vikram of Angira to his home
planet to return him to his
rightful throne, but instead
find a world locked in bloody
revolutionary battles, where
each must survive on his skill
with a sword.
Ishmael 05/85 Barbara Hambly While on a secret mission to
learn about a Klingon plan to
use time travel to change the
Federation's history, Spock
finds himself in 19th Century
San Francisco, with amnesia
and going by the name Ishmael.
Book Title PB Date HC Date Authors Synopsis
--------------- ------- ------- ---------------- ------------------------------
Killing Time 07/85 Della Van Hise A Romulan time-tampering
project called Second History
transports the Enterprise into
an alternate universe where
Kirk is an embittered young
ensign and Spock a beseiged
starship commander.
Dwellers in the 09/85 Margaret Wander The Romulans have kidnapped
Crucible Bonanno six Federation Warrantors of
Peace in a plan to form
political chaos and civil war
in the Federation; and the
Enterprise is sent to find and
rescue them.
Pawns and 11/85 Majlis Larson Agricultural scientist Jean
Symbols Czerny is taken by the
Klingons from an
earthquake-ravaged station on
Sherman's Planet to the
Klingon homeworld, where she
is forced to work on ways of
combating a deadly famine
caused by agricultural blight.
Mindshadow 01/86 J.M. Dillard During a vicious attack by an
unknown enemy on the planet
Aritami, Spock suffers a fall
that cripples his mind, and
Kirk discovers a Romulan
connection with a double agent
on the Enterprise.
Crisis on 03/86 Brad Ferguson The planet Centaurus has been
Centaurus bombed by an anti-matter
device set by terrorists, and
the Enterprise sets out to
care for the survivors and try
to find McCoy's daughter on
the planet.
Dreadnaught 05/86 Diane Carey On her maiden voyage, the
super dreadnaught Star Empire
is stolen by a group of
Starfleet officers who insist
that their aim is to save the
Federation from traitors.
Demons 07/86 J.M. Dillard A Federation research
expedition accidentally
discovers and unleashes an
ancient evil force, which runs
rampant on Vulcan, causing
death and destruction among
Spock's family and friends.
Book Title PB Date HC Date Authors Synopsis
--------------- ------- ------- ---------------- ------------------------------
Enterprise: The 09/86 Vonda McIntyre Captain Kirk, new commander of
First Adventure the USS Enterprise, assumes
command from Captain
Christopher Pike and sets out
with an uneasy crew on the
first voyage of the starship's
historic 5-year mission.
Battlestations 11/86 Diane Carey Lt. Piper, who helped solve
the Dreadnaught crisis, is
sent by Captain Kirk on a
secret mission to help clear
his name of the theft of the
transwarp drive technology and
faces one of the Federation's
most deadly traitors.
Star Trek IV: 12/86 Vonda McIntyre Novelization of: Star Trek IV:
The Voyage Home The Voyage Home.
Chain of Attack 02/87 Gene De Weese While mapping a series of
gravitational anomalies, the
Enterprise is hurled millions
of light years through space
to an almost lifeless galaxy,
where suicide ships from two
warring worlds attack in a
battle that has raged for
centuries.
Deep Domain 04/87 Howard Weinstein On a routine diplomatic
mission to the water world
Akkalla, Spock, Chekov, and
the rest of the Enterprise
crew become involved in the
struggle of rebels against a
corrupt government, and help
solve the mystery of an
ancient undersea intelligence.
Dreams of the 06/87 Carmen Carter While answering a merchant
Ravens ship's desperate distress
call, the Enterprise confronts
an unknown but dangerous enemy
that controls McCoy through
his dreams.
Strangers from 07/87 Margaret Wander Kirk and Spock are tormented
the Sky Bonanno by horrible dreams of a
distant, forgotten past, and
must resort to McCoy's
hypnotic treatments to learn
the truth of their involvement
in the first contact between
humans and Vulcans in the 21st
Century.
Book Title PB Date HC Date Authors Synopsis
--------------- ------- ------- ---------------- ------------------------------
The Romulan Way 08/87 Diane Duane - Undercover Federation agent
Peter Morwood Terise La Brutto recounts her
life among the Rihannsu
(Romulans) and her encounter
with McCoy and the renegade
Romulan Commander Ael.
How Much for 10/87 John Ford The small planet Direidi has a
Just the fortune in natural dilithium,
Planet? which the Federation and the
Klingons both want; but the
whacky practical-joker
inhabitants of the planet have
other ideas.
Bloodthirst 12/87 J.M. Dillard Responding to a class-one
medical emergency on Tanis,
the Enterprise brings aboard
the sole survivor of a
biological warfare accident,
who has become a living
vampire who infects those he
attacks.
Final Frontier 01/88 Diane Carey Kirk, on shore leave, finds
old letters from his father,
Commander George S. Kirk, and
reminisces about the career of
the first Kirk to serve on the
Enterprise.
The IDIC 02/88 Jean Lorrah A plague rages across the
Epidemic Vulcan science colony on
Misus, where all peoples of
the galaxy -- humand, Vulcans,
even Klingons -- work side by
side.
Time for 04/88 Ann C. Crispin Time in the galaxy has stopped
Yesterday running in its normal course,
meaning that the Guardian of
Forever is malfunctioning; and
Spock, Kirk, and McCoy must
journey 5,000 years into the
past to find Spock's son Zar
to telepathically communicate
with the Guardian.
Timetrap 06/88 David Dvorkin In remote Federation space,
the Enterprise picks up an
urgent signal from a Klingon
vessel; and while on the
Klingon ship trying to
determine what the Klingons
are doing, Kirk and the
Klingon ship disappear into a
time warp that carries them
100 years into the future.
Book Title PB Date HC Date Authors Synopsis
--------------- ------- ------- ---------------- ------------------------------
The 08/88 Barbara Paul An abhorred race called the
Three-Minute Sackers uses a revolutionary
Universe device to form a rip in the
fabric of space, causing a
parallel universe to engulf
and begin to consume our own
universe.
Spock's World 08/89 09/88 Diane Duane Spock, Sarek, and Kirk try to
persuade the Vulcan ruling
council to reverse its
decision to secede from the
Federation.
Memory Prime 10/88 Gar & Judith The greatest scientists in the
Reeves-Stevens universe gather at Memory
Prime, the Federation's
ultimate library complex; and
Kirk becomes involved in
stopping an assassination
attempt.
The Final Nexus 12/88 Gene De Weese Time gates created by an
extinct race centuries ago
begin to break down, and the
Enterprise must prevent
creatures from another
universe from crossing into
ours.
Vulcan's Glory 02/89 D.C. Fontana A young Spock struggles to
reconcile the obligations
forced on him by his Vulcan
heritage and his desire to
serve on the Enterprise with
Captain Pike.
Double, Double 04/89 Michael Jan The USS Hood inadvertently
Friedman sets loose an android double
of Captain Kirk, who is intent
on replacing the real Kirk and
taking control of the
Enterprise.
Star Trek V: 06/89 J.M. Dillard Novelization of: Star Trek V:
The Final The Final Frontier.
Frontier
The Lost Years 08/90 10/89 J.M. Dillard After completion of the
Enterprise's 5-year mission,
Kirk is promoted to Admiral
and, with help from Spock and
McCoy, defuses a crisis
situation on the remote planet
Djana.
Book Title PB Date HC Date Authors Synopsis
--------------- ------- ------- ---------------- ------------------------------
The Cry of the 10/89 Judy Klau When an experimental starship
Onlies falls into the wrong hands and
begins to wreak havoc along
the Klingon and Romulan
borders, the Enterprise is
called in to recover the
vessel and prevent a
catastrophic war.
The Kobayashi 12/89 Julia Ecklar Trapped in a crippled and
Maru drifting shuttlecraft, Kirk
and other crew members discuss
the Kobayashi Maru scenario,
which holds the key to their
survival.
Rules of 02/90 Peter Morwood The Enterprise is sent to the
Engagement planet Dekkanar with strict
orders to evacuate Federation
personnel and not to show
force; but a Klingon warship
has other ideas.
The Pandora 04/90 Carolyn Clowes Spock and Saavik must return
Principle to the planet Hellguard to
search for the deadly secret
of a derelict Romulan Bird of
Prey discovered near the
Neutral Zone.
Doctor's Orders 06/90 Diane Duane Dr. McCoy finds himself in
command of the Enterprise when
Kirk disappears on a strange
planet and Klingons appear on
the scene.
Prime Directive 09/91 09/90 Gar & Judith Kirk and the crew of the
Reeves-Stevens Enterprise are scattered among
the stars in disgrace after a
well-intentioned rescue
mission causes the total
destruction of a
newly-discovered race on the
planet Talin.
Enemy Unseen 10/90 V.E. Mitchell Kirk encounters an old flame
who now happens to be the wife
of a Federation ambassador,
and he must also seek out an
alien killer stalking the
Enterprise.
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Summary: This posting contains the complete eposide guide to all of
the Bantam, Ballantine, and Pocket Books novels. I found
it on compuserve and thought others might be intersted in it.
The authors address is 71777.2365@compuserve.com.
Keywords: Books, Guide, Star Trek, ST
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Hello All:
I found this on compuserve and thought it would be of intrest of
internet users who are looking for a good guide to Star Trek books.
STAR TREK BOOK GUIDE
As of May 31, 1994
Compiled by
Arnold E. van Beverhoudt, Jr.
71777,2365
Dear Star Trek Fan,
Over the years I've been maintaining this Star Trek book guide and a separate
guide to the Star Trek episodes on dBase III+. I hope you find it useful. If
you share this file with anyone else, please keep this page as part of the
file. I would welcome any comments, suggestions, or corrections.
Look for file TREKTV.TXT for a similar guide to all of the TOS, TAS, TNG, and
DS9 episodes and the feature films.
Arnold
STAR TREK BOOK GUIDE
As of May 31, 1994
Book Title PB Date HC Date Authors Synopsis
--------------- ------- ------- ---------------- ------------------------------
STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES
Bantam Books Original Series Adaptations
Star Trek 1 01/67 James Blish Adaptations of: Charlie X,
Dagger of the Mind, Man Trap,
Balance of Terror, The Naked
Time, Miri, and The Conscience
of the King.
Star Trek 2 02/68 James Blish Adaptations of: Arena, A Taste
of Armageddon, Errand of
Mercy, Court-Martial,
Operation: Annihilate, The
City on the Edge of Forever,
and Space Seed.
Star Trek 3 04/69 James Blish Adaptations of: The Trouble
with Tribbles, The Last
Gunfight, The Doomsday
Machine, Assignment: Earth,
Friday's Child, and Amok Time.
Star Trek 4 07/71 James Blish Adaptations of: All Our
Yesterdays, The Devil in the
Dark, Journey to Babel, The
Menagerie, The Enterprise
Incident, and A Piece of the
Action.
Star Trek 5 02/72 James Blish Adaptations of: Whom Gods
Destroy, The Tholian Web, Let
That Be Your Last Battlefield,
This Side of Paradise,
Turnabout Intruder, Requiem
for Metuselah, and The Way to
Eden.
Star Trek 6 04/72 James Blish Adaptations of: The Savage
Curtain, The Lights of Zetar,
The Apple, By Any Other Name,
The Cloud Minders, and The
Mark of Gideon.
Star Trek 7 07/72 James Blish Adaptations of: Who Mourns for
Adonis, The Changeling, The
Paradise Syndrome,
Metamorphosis, The Deadly
Years, and Elaan of Troyius.
Star Trek 8 11/72 James Blish Adaptations of: Spock's Brain,
The Enemy Within, Catspaw,
Where No Man Has Gone Before,
Wolf in the Fold, and For the
World Is Hollow and I Have
Touched the Sky.
Book Title PB Date HC Date Authors Synopsis
--------------- ------- ------- ---------------- ------------------------------
Star Trek 9 08/73 James Blish Adaptations of: Return to
Tomorrow, The Ultimate
Computer, That Which Survives,
Obsession, The Return of the
Archons, and The Immunity
Syndrome.
Star Trek 10 02/74 James Blish Adaptations of: The
Alternative Factor, The
Empath, Galileo Seven, Is
There in Truth No Beauty, A
Private Little War, and The
Omega Glory.
Star Trek 11 04/75 James Blish Adaptations of: What Are
Little Girls Made of, The
Squire of Gothos, Wink of an
Eye, Bread and Circuses, Day
of the Dove, and Plato's
Stepchildren.
Star Trek 12 11/77 James Blish - Adaptations of: Patterns of
J.A. Force, The Gamesters of
Lawrence-Blish Triskelion, And the Children
Shall Lead, The Corbomite
Maneuver, and Shore Leave.
Mudd's Angels 05/78 J.A. Adaptations of: Mudd's Woman,
Lawrence-Blish I Mudd, and The Business as
Usual During Altercations
(original story).
Ballantine Books Animated Series Adaptations
Star Trek Log 1 06/74 Alan Dean Foster Adaptations of: Beyond the
Farthest Star, Yesteryear, and
One of Our Planets Is Missing.
Star Trek Log 2 09/74 Alan Dean Foster Adaptations of: The Survivor,
The Lorelei Signal, and The
Infinite Vulcan.
Star Trek Log 3 01/75 Alan Dean Foster Adaptations of: Once Upon a
Planet, Mudd's Passion, The
Magicks of Megas-Tu.
Star Trek Log 4 03/75 Alan Dean Foster Adaptations of: The Terratin
Incident, Time Trap, and More
Tribbles More Troubles.
Star Trek Log 5 08/75 Alan Dean Foster Adaptations of: The Ambergris
Element, The Pirates of Orion,
and Jihad.
Star Trek Log 6 03/76 Alan Dean Foster Adaptations of: Albatross, The
Practical Joker, and How
Sharper Than a Serpent's
Tooth.
Book Title PB Date HC Date Authors Synopsis
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Star Trek Log 7 06/76 Alan Dean Foster Adaptation of: The
Counter-Clock Incident.
Star Trek Log 8 08/76 Alan Dean Foster Adaptation of: The Eye of the
Beholder.
Star Trek Log 9 02/77 Alan Dean Foster Adaptation of: Bem.
Star Trek 01/78 Alan Dean Foster Adaptation of: Slaver Weapon.
Log 10
Bantam Books Short Story Collections
The New Voyages 03/76 (Editors) Sondra Short stories: Ni Var,
Marshak - Myrna Intersection Point, The
Culbreath Enchanted Pool, Visit to a
Weird Planet Revisited, Face
on the Barroom Floor, The
Hunting, The Winged Dreamers,
and The Mindsifter.
The New 01/78 (Editors) Sondra Short stories: Surprise, Snake
Voyages 2 Marshak - Myrna Pit, The Patient Parasite, In
Culbreath the Maze, Marginal Existence,
The Procrustean Petard, and
The Sleeping God.
Bantam Books Novels
Spock Must Die 02/70 James Blish The Enterprise crew is caught
in an undeclared war with the
Klingons, and while
transporting to Organia, Spock
becomes two, one good and one
evil.
Spock, Messiah 09/76 Theodore A defective mind meld turns
Cogswell - logical Mr. Spock into a fiery
Charles Spano revolutionary who sets out to
convert the planet Kyros with
fire, sword, and forbidden
philosophy.
The Price of 07/77 Sondra Marshak - After the shock of Kirk's
the Phoenix Myrna Culbreath death, Spock is forced into a
desperate gamble against Omne,
emperor of the underworld, for
Kirk's soul and renewed life.
Planet of 08/77 Joe Haldeman The Enterprise stumbles onto a
Judgment mysterious planet that is
orbited by a black hole, and
where a strange race
overpowers the laws of nature.
Vulcan 09/78 Kathleen Sky Spock and a beautiful, but
bigoted, scientist who hates
Vulcans are sent on a deadly
assignment on a planet of
ant-like creatures.
Book Title PB Date HC Date Authors Synopsis
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The Starless 11/78 Gordon Eklund Inside the hollow shell of a
World remote planet, the Enterprise
crew discovers a world within
a world, with a white dwarf
star at its center.
Trek to 01/79 Stephen Goldin The Enterprise crew travels to
Madworld an eerie sector of space to
save the endangered people of
Epsilon Delta IV, and
confronts Enowil, the mad
gnome master of this insane
planet.
World Without 02/79 Joe Haldeman On Chatalia, an artificial
End world inhabited by furry
winged creatures, the
Enterprise crew is faced with
the creatures' awesome powers
and roving Klingon killers.
The Fate of the 05/79 Sondra Marshak - Kirk and Spock, aided by
Phoenix Myrna Culbreath Romulan Commander Ael, face
the reborn Omne, the immortal
evil villan who has vowed
revenge for his earlier
defeat.
Devil World 11/79 Gordon Eklund Kirk falls in love with a
beautiful, but mysterious,
woman on Heartland, a planet
populated by a race of
terrifying demonic beings.
Perry's World 02/80 Jack Haldeman II The Enterprise crew is trapped
between the sub-human Immunes
and Klingons on a planet ruled
by a human who has supposedly
been dead for 300 years.
Galactic 10/80 David Gerrold The Enterprise attempts to
Whirlpool rescue a lost human colony who
believe the crew members are
demons and are unaware that
they are drifting towards the
churning whirlpool at the
galactic core.
Death's Angel 04/81 Kathleen Sky Kirk and Spock barely survive
the mind-destroying plants on
Delta Gamma IV, while McCoy
faces charges for the murder
of Federation diplomats
aboard the Enterprise.
Pocket Books Novels
Star Trek: The 12/79 Gene Roddenberry Novelization of: Star Trek:
Motion Picture The Motion Picture.
Book Title PB Date HC Date Authors Synopsis
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The Entrophy 06/81 Vonda McIntyre A brilliant, but criminal,
Effect scientist kills Kirk and
throws the universe into a
deadly time warp, and Spock
must travel back in time to
avert the disaster before it
happens.
The Klingon 10/81 Robert Vardeman When the Enterprise is ordered
Gambit to challenge a Klingon battle
cruiser, the crew finds that a
Vulcan research ship has been
destroyed and that their minds
are being affected by a
Klingon device.
Covenant of the 12/81 Howard Weinstein An Enterprise shuttlecraft
Crown carrying Spock, McCoy, and the
beautiful heir to the Shaddan
throne crash lands on a barren
planet, where they must fight
for survival against Klingon
scouts and primitive natives.
The Prometheus 03/82 Sondra Marshak - The Enterprise is sent on a
Design Myrna Culbreath mission to investigate the
mysterious wave of violence
that has overtaken the
Helvans, and come face to face
with the chaos caused by a
mind experiment by an alien of
unimaginable power.
The Abode of 05/82 Lee Carrey The Enterprise, crippled and
Life in need of urgent repairs,
arrives at Mercan, a planet
whose sun is prone to deadly
radioactive flare-ups, but
whose citizens live in a
culture that cannot conceive
of life outside their own
world.
Star Trek II: 07/82 Vonda McIntyre Novelization of: Star Trek II:
The Wrath of The Wrath of Kahn.
Kahn
Black Fire 01/83 Sonni Cooper While investigating sabotage
aboard the Enterprise, Spock
finds himself in an alliance
with the Romulans and Klingons
against the blood-thirsty
Tomari race, but is considered
a traitor by the Federation.
Book Title PB Date HC Date Authors Synopsis
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Triangle 03/83 Sondra Marshak - Kirk and Spock are both
Myrna Culbreath inexplicably attracted to the
same woman, Federation free
agent Sola Than, as they all
face the collective mind of
the Totality, the most
powerful force ever unleashed
on the galaxy.
Yesterday's Son 08/83 Ann C. Crispin While he is studying the
Guardian of Forever, Spock
learns that Zarabeth had born
him a son 5,000 years ago, and
the Romulans attack the
gateway planet.
Mutiny on the 10/83 Robert Vardeman The Enterprise is crippled in
Enterprise orbit around a strange, living
planet, and an alien woman on
board is inciting the crew to
a pacifist mutiny.
The Wounded Sky 12/83 Diane Duane On a test of an experimental
intergalactic inversion
(transwarp) drive, the
Enterprise faces not only the
Klingons, but a tear in the
fabric of space-time.
The Trellisane 02/84 David Dvorkin The Enterprise rushes to
Confrontation war-torn Trellisane, where a
bizzare turn of events has
Kirk on the bridge of a
Klingon battlecruiser, McCoy
dining with cannibals on the
planet, and the Enterprise
surrounded by Romulans.
Corona 04/84 Greg Bear An awesome sentient force of
protostars known as Corona
takes control of a stranded
team of Valean scientists, and
the Enterprise arrives on a
rescue mission with a
troublesome female reporter
and a new computer that can
over-ride Kirk's orders.
The Final 05/84 John Ford On board the Enterprise during
Reflection shore leave, Kirk relives the
life and culture of the
Klingons and learns about
Klingon Captain Krenn's secret
battle to preserve peace, as
he reads the popular Klingon
history "The Final
Reflection."
Book Title PB Date HC Date Authors Synopsis
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Star Trek III: 06/84 Vonda McIntyre Novelization of: Star Trek
The Search for III: The Search for Spock.
Spock
My Enemy, My 07/84 Diane Duane Romulan Commander Ael is a
Ally noble and dangerous foe, but
when she learns that Romulan
scientists are kidnapping
Vulcans for mind-control
experiments, she joins Kirk
and the Enterprise to destroy
the research lab and return
honor to the Romulan name.
The Tears of 09/84 Melinda The Enterprise crew and the
the Singers Snodgrass Klingons join in an uneasy
truce to investigate the
semi-aquatic creatures of
Taygeta, whose jewel-like
tears have resulted in their
being hunted to extinction,
thus causing the formation of
a dangerous space-time warp.
The Vulcan 11/84 Jean Lorrah While Kirk, Spock, and McCoy
Academy Murders are on Vulcan seeking an
experimental treatment for a
badly wounded crewman, they
become involved in a series of
murders where Spock's mother
is one of the victims.
Uhura's Song 01/85 Janet Kagan The songs Uhura learned years
ago from a friend from the
cat-like Eeiauoau race become
the key to stopping a plague
that may kill the entire
population of the planet.
Shadow Lord 03/85 Laurence Yap Spock and Sulu join Prince
Vikram of Angira to his home
planet to return him to his
rightful throne, but instead
find a world locked in bloody
revolutionary battles, where
each must survive on his skill
with a sword.
Ishmael 05/85 Barbara Hambly While on a secret mission to
learn about a Klingon plan to
use time travel to change the
Federation's history, Spock
finds himself in 19th Century
San Francisco, with amnesia
and going by the name Ishmael.
Book Title PB Date HC Date Authors Synopsis
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Killing Time 07/85 Della Van Hise A Romulan time-tampering
project called Second History
transports the Enterprise into
an alternate universe where
Kirk is an embittered young
ensign and Spock a beseiged
starship commander.
Dwellers in the 09/85 Margaret Wander The Romulans have kidnapped
Crucible Bonanno six Federation Warrantors of
Peace in a plan to form
political chaos and civil war
in the Federation; and the
Enterprise is sent to find and
rescue them.
Pawns and 11/85 Majlis Larson Agricultural scientist Jean
Symbols Czerny is taken by the
Klingons from an
earthquake-ravaged station on
Sherman's Planet to the
Klingon homeworld, where she
is forced to work on ways of
combating a deadly famine
caused by agricultural blight.
Mindshadow 01/86 J.M. Dillard During a vicious attack by an
unknown enemy on the planet
Aritami, Spock suffers a fall
that cripples his mind, and
Kirk discovers a Romulan
connection with a double agent
on the Enterprise.
Crisis on 03/86 Brad Ferguson The planet Centaurus has been
Centaurus bombed by an anti-matter
device set by terrorists, and
the Enterprise sets out to
care for the survivors and try
to find McCoy's daughter on
the planet.
Dreadnaught 05/86 Diane Carey On her maiden voyage, the
super dreadnaught Star Empire
is stolen by a group of
Starfleet officers who insist
that their aim is to save the
Federation from traitors.
Demons 07/86 J.M. Dillard A Federation research
expedition accidentally
discovers and unleashes an
ancient evil force, which runs
rampant on Vulcan, causing
death and destruction among
Spock's family and friends.
Book Title PB Date HC Date Authors Synopsis
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Enterprise: The 09/86 Vonda McIntyre Captain Kirk, new commander of
First Adventure the USS Enterprise, assumes
command from Captain
Christopher Pike and sets out
with an uneasy crew on the
first voyage of the starship's
historic 5-year mission.
Battlestations 11/86 Diane Carey Lt. Piper, who helped solve
the Dreadnaught crisis, is
sent by Captain Kirk on a
secret mission to help clear
his name of the theft of the
transwarp drive technology and
faces one of the Federation's
most deadly traitors.
Star Trek IV: 12/86 Vonda McIntyre Novelization of: Star Trek IV:
The Voyage Home The Voyage Home.
Chain of Attack 02/87 Gene De Weese While mapping a series of
gravitational anomalies, the
Enterprise is hurled millions
of light years through space
to an almost lifeless galaxy,
where suicide ships from two
warring worlds attack in a
battle that has raged for
centuries.
Deep Domain 04/87 Howard Weinstein On a routine diplomatic
mission to the water world
Akkalla, Spock, Chekov, and
the rest of the Enterprise
crew become involved in the
struggle of rebels against a
corrupt government, and help
solve the mystery of an
ancient undersea intelligence.
Dreams of the 06/87 Carmen Carter While answering a merchant
Ravens ship's desperate distress
call, the Enterprise confronts
an unknown but dangerous enemy
that controls McCoy through
his dreams.
Strangers from 07/87 Margaret Wander Kirk and Spock are tormented
the Sky Bonanno by horrible dreams of a
distant, forgotten past, and
must resort to McCoy's
hypnotic treatments to learn
the truth of their involvement
in the first contact between
humans and Vulcans in the 21st
Century.
Book Title PB Date HC Date Authors Synopsis
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The Romulan Way 08/87 Diane Duane - Undercover Federation agent
Peter Morwood Terise La Brutto recounts her
life among the Rihannsu
(Romulans) and her encounter
with McCoy and the renegade
Romulan Commander Ael.
How Much for 10/87 John Ford The small planet Direidi has a
Just the fortune in natural dilithium,
Planet? which the Federation and the
Klingons both want; but the
whacky practical-joker
inhabitants of the planet have
other ideas.
Bloodthirst 12/87 J.M. Dillard Responding to a class-one
medical emergency on Tanis,
the Enterprise brings aboard
the sole survivor of a
biological warfare accident,
who has become a living
vampire who infects those he
attacks.
Final Frontier 01/88 Diane Carey Kirk, on shore leave, finds
old letters from his father,
Commander George S. Kirk, and
reminisces about the career of
the first Kirk to serve on the
Enterprise.
The IDIC 02/88 Jean Lorrah A plague rages across the
Epidemic Vulcan science colony on
Misus, where all peoples of
the galaxy -- humand, Vulcans,
even Klingons -- work side by
side.
Time for 04/88 Ann C. Crispin Time in the galaxy has stopped
Yesterday running in its normal course,
meaning that the Guardian of
Forever is malfunctioning; and
Spock, Kirk, and McCoy must
journey 5,000 years into the
past to find Spock's son Zar
to telepathically communicate
with the Guardian.
Timetrap 06/88 David Dvorkin In remote Federation space,
the Enterprise picks up an
urgent signal from a Klingon
vessel; and while on the
Klingon ship trying to
determine what the Klingons
are doing, Kirk and the
Klingon ship disappear into a
time warp that carries them
100 years into the future.
Book Title PB Date HC Date Authors Synopsis
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The 08/88 Barbara Paul An abhorred race called the
Three-Minute Sackers uses a revolutionary
Universe device to form a rip in the
fabric of space, causing a
parallel universe to engulf
and begin to consume our own
universe.
Spock's World 08/89 09/88 Diane Duane Spock, Sarek, and Kirk try to
persuade the Vulcan ruling
council to reverse its
decision to secede from the
Federation.
Memory Prime 10/88 Gar & Judith The greatest scientists in the
Reeves-Stevens universe gather at Memory
Prime, the Federation's
ultimate library complex; and
Kirk becomes involved in
stopping an assassination
attempt.
The Final Nexus 12/88 Gene De Weese Time gates created by an
extinct race centuries ago
begin to break down, and the
Enterprise must prevent
creatures from another
universe from crossing into
ours.
Vulcan's Glory 02/89 D.C. Fontana A young Spock struggles to
reconcile the obligations
forced on him by his Vulcan
heritage and his desire to
serve on the Enterprise with
Captain Pike.
Double, Double 04/89 Michael Jan The USS Hood inadvertently
Friedman sets loose an android double
of Captain Kirk, who is intent
on replacing the real Kirk and
taking control of the
Enterprise.
Star Trek V: 06/89 J.M. Dillard Novelization of: Star Trek V:
The Final The Final Frontier.
Frontier
The Lost Years 08/90 10/89 J.M. Dillard After completion of the
Enterprise's 5-year mission,
Kirk is promoted to Admiral
and, with help from Spock and
McCoy, defuses a crisis
situation on the remote planet
Djana.
Book Title PB Date HC Date Authors Synopsis
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The Cry of the 10/89 Judy Klau When an experimental starship
Onlies falls into the wrong hands and
begins to wreak havoc along
the Klingon and Romulan
borders, the Enterprise is
called in to recover the
vessel and prevent a
catastrophic war.
The Kobayashi 12/89 Julia Ecklar Trapped in a crippled and
Maru drifting shuttlecraft, Kirk
and other crew members discuss
the Kobayashi Maru scenario,
which holds the key to their
survival.
Rules of 02/90 Peter Morwood The Enterprise is sent to the
Engagement planet Dekkanar with strict
orders to evacuate Federation
personnel and not to show
force; but a Klingon warship
has other ideas.
The Pandora 04/90 Carolyn Clowes Spock and Saavik must return
Principle to the planet Hellguard to
search for the deadly secret
of a derelict Romulan Bird of
Prey discovered near the
Neutral Zone.
Doctor's Orders 06/90 Diane Duane Dr. McCoy finds himself in
command of the Enterprise when
Kirk disappears on a strange
planet and Klingons appear on
the scene.
Prime Directive 09/91 09/90 Gar & Judith Kirk and the crew of the
Reeves-Stevens Enterprise are scattered among
the stars in disgrace after a
well-intentioned rescue
mission causes the total
destruction of a
newly-discovered race on the
planet Talin.
Enemy Unseen 10/90 V.E. Mitchell Kirk encounters an old flame
who now happens to be the wife
of a Federation ambassador,
and he must also seek out an
alien killer stalking the
Enterprise.
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