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Star Trek: The Original Series novels 247

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2273
TOS
Star Trek I: The Motion Picture

Their historic five-year mission is over. Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Scotty all the crew have scattered to other jobs or other lives. Now, they are back together again on a fabulously refitted USS Enterprise as an incredibly destructive power threatens earth and the human race.

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2270
TOS
The Entropy Effect

The Enterprise is summoned to transport a dangerous criminal to rehabilitation: the brilliant physicist, Dr. Georges Mordreaux, who is accused of promising to send people back in time, then killing them instead. But when a crazed Mordreaux escapes, he inexplicably bursts onto the bridge and murders Captain Kirk before the crew's eyes. Now Spock must journey back in time to avert the disaster before it occurs.

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2268
TOS
The Klingon Gambit

After the inhabitants of Alnath II discover an ancient city, crew members of the Enterprise undergo sudden personality changes which effect their ability to protect the starship from an approaching Klingon battle cruiser.

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2276
TOS
The Covenant of the Crown

Spock, McCoy and Kailyn, the beautiful heir to the Shaddan throne, survive when an Enterprise shuttle crash-lands on a barren planet. Pursued by primitive hunters and a band of Klingon scouts, they must reach the mountain where a fabulous dynastic crown is hidden.

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2274
TOS
The Prometheus Design

Captain Kirk and his crew are on a mission to investigate the mysterious wave of violence that has overtaken the Helvans. This chaos is all part of an experiment by an unimaginable power that soon grips even the crew of the Enterprise.

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2270
TOS
The Abode of Life
2270TOS #6Lee CorreyMay 1982

Kirk finds himself torn between the safety and survival of his crew and the Prime Directive when a badly damaged Enterprise seeks help from citizens of a planet who cannot yet conceive of worlds beyond their own.

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2285
TOS
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

While surveying Ceti Alpha V for the Genesis Project, the starship Reliant discovers the camp of Khan Noonien Singh and his followers. Kirk and his crew must prevent Khan from destroying the Enterprise and detonating the Genesis device.

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2270
TOS
Black Fire
2270TOS #8Sonni CooperJan 1983

There is sabotage aboard the Enterprise, and Spock's investigation leads him into defiance of the Federation and a bizarre alliance with the Romulan and Klingon Empires against the bloodthirsty Tomarii, a savage race for whom war and battle are life itself.

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2274
TOS
Triangle

A dark plan has been unleashed in the galaxy. Captain Kirk must battle the seductive force of the Totality's will.

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2267
TOS
Web of the Romulans

Ravaged by a killer virus, the Romulans enter Canara, where the only antidote can be found. Desperate, they incite a victorious Enterprise attack on one of their vessels - but Kirk discovers their ruse.

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2270
TOS
Yesterday's Son

The Romulans attack the planet Gateway, where Federation scientists are studying the Guardian of Forever - the mysterious portal to the past. The Enterprise must protect the Guardian ... or destroy it, but Spock has already used the portal to journey to the past. On the planet Sarpedion, 5,000 years ago, Spock knew a beautiful, primitive woman. Now he has gone back to meet his son!

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2268
TOS
Mutiny on the Enterprise

The ship is crippled in orbit around a dangerous planet and a desperate peace mission is stalled. Kirk has never needed his crew more when an alien women casts a spell of pacifism - and now mutiny - over the crew.

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2275
TOS
The Wounded Sky
2275TOS #13Diane DuaneDec 1983

An alien scientist invents the Intergalactic Inversion Drive, an engine system that transcends warp drive, the U.S.S Enterprise will be the first to test it. The Klingons attempt to thwart the test, but a greater danger looms when strange symptoms surface among the crew, and time becomes meaningless.

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2269
TOS
The Trellisane Confrontation

The U.S.S Enterprise has rushed to war-torn Trellisane. Kirk is on the bridge of a Klingon warship, McCoy is dining with cannibals, and the ship is surrounded by Romulans. In the Neutral Zone, power is up for grabs. Now only the ingenuity and raw courage of the Enterprise crew can avert catastrophe!

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2270
TOS
Corona
2270TOS #14Greg BearApr 1984

Corona, a sentient force of protostars, has taken control of a stranded team of Vulcan scientists. The Enterprise has come on a rescue mission, with a female reporter and a new computer that can override Kirk's command. Suddenly, the rescuers must save themselves and the entire Universe - before Corona unleashes a Big Bang!

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2270
TOS
The Final Reflection

Klingon Captain Krenn is a ruthless war strategist. But on a mission to Earth, Krenn learns a lesson in peace. Only Krenn can prevent a war -- at the risk of his own life!

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2285
TOS
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

As the crew grieves for Mr. Spock, the awesome Genesis Device, now controlled by the Federation, has transformed an inert nebula into a new planet teeming with life. But Genesis can also destroy existing worlds. The creators of the Device want it given freely to the Galaxy. But Starfleet Command fears that it will become a force for evil. And the enemies of the Federation will not rest until they seize it.

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2275
TOS
My Enemy, My Ally
2275TOS #18Diane DuaneJul 1984

When the Romulans kidnap Vulcans to genetically harness their mind power, Romulan Commander Ael t' Rlailiiu joins Captain Kirk in a secret pact to destroy a research laboratory and free the captive Vulcans.

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2270
TOS
The Tears of the Singers

Captain Kirk and the Enterprise join the Klingons to avert disaster in the Taygeta V system - where a time/space warp has swallowed a spaceship without a trace. Spock suspects a link between the anomaly and the inhabitants of Taygeta, semi-aquatic creatures killed for the jewel-like tears secreted at the moment of death. But a mutinous Klingon officer threatens the vital mission.

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2267
TOS
The Vulcan Academy Murders
2267TOS #20Jean LorrahNov 1984

Kirk and McCoy accompany Spock to the Vulcan Academy Hospital seeking experimental treatment for a badly wounded Enterprise crew member. Spock's mother is also a patient in the hospital, and Kirk soon becomes involved in the complex drama of Spock's family. Suddenly, patients are dying, and Kirk suspects the unthinkable - murder on Vulcan! But can he convince the Vulcans that something as illogical as murder is possible?

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2268
TOS
Uhura's Song
2268TOS #21Janet KaganJan 1985

The U.S.S. Enterpriseis orbiting Eeiauo in a desperate race to save the inhabitants before a deadly plague destroys them. Uhura's secret songs may hold the key to a cure.

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2266
TOS
Shadow Lord

Angira is a primitive, violent planet - and young Prince Vikram returns from Earth filled with new ideas. When Sulu and Spock accompany Vikram home, they walk into a bloodbath: reactionary forces, afraid of any modernization, have seized Vikram's rightful throne. Suddenly the men from the Enterprise are on an underground journey with a Prince who is coming of age.

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2267
TOS
Ishmael

The Enterprise is on a peaceful mission at Starbase 12 when a bizarre cosmic phenomenon causes a Klingon ship to suddenly vanish - with Spock aboard for the ride. Spock's last message from the Klingon ship is cryptic and frightening. The Klingons are traveling into the past, searching for the one man who holds the key to the future. If they can kill that man, the course of history will be changed - and the Federation will be destroyed!

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2269
TOS
Killing Time

A Romulan time-tampering project has transported the Enterprise into an alternate dimension of reality. Lured into a Romulan trap, Spock and Kirk must free themselves from both their captors and their own altered selves.

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2281
TOS
Dwellers in the Crucible

Warrantors of Peace: the Federation's daring experiment to prevent war among its members. Now Romulans have kidnapped six Warrantors, to foment political chaos, and then civil war, within the Federation

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2273
TOS
Pawns and Symbols

Threatened by a deadly famine, the Klingon Empire is on the verge of igniting a mad interplanetary war of conquest. Kirk must play a dangerous game of mind strategy to prevent a savage attack on the Federation!

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2270
TOS
Mindshadow

The Enterprises comes to the aid of a planet under attack when Spock is found mysteriously injured and Kirk uncovers an evil Romulan plot, with a cunning double agent in the middle.

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2269
TOS
Crisis on Centaurus

After Centaurus is bombed and annihilated, Kirk is thrown into a deadly struggle between violent enemy terrorists and vengeful Centaurians. Uhura must jeopardize the Enterprise to save Centaurus, Kirk and McCoy's daughter Joanna.

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TOS
Dreadnought!
2270TOS #29Diane CareyMay 1986

Star Empire is the Federation's most powerful new weapon - a dreadnought, first in a class of super-starships - capable of outgunning a dozen Klingon cruisers. On the eve of her maiden voyage, Star Empire is stolen by terrorists who demand a rendezvous with the Enterprise.

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2270
TOS
Demons

A Starfleet research expedition to the farthest reaches of the galaxy has unearthed a powerful force and brought its silent evil back to the planet Vulcan.

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2270
TOS
Battlestations!
2270TOS #31Diane CareyNov 1986

Kirk is wanted for questioning in connection with the theft of transwarp, the Federation's newest, most advanced propulsion system.

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2270
TOS
Chain of Attack

While mapping a series of gravitational anomalies, the Enterprise is suddenly hurled millions of light-years through space, into a distant galaxy of scorched and lifeless worlds and into the middle of an endless interstellar war. With no way back home, the crippled starship finds itself under relentless and suicidal attack by both warring fleets!

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2278
TOS
Deep Domain

A routine diplomatic visit to the water-world of Akkalla becomes a nightmarish search for a missing Spock and Chekov, a search that plunges Admiral Kirk headlong into a corrupt government's desperate struggle to retain power. For both A Federation Science outpost and Akkalla's valiant freedom fighters have begun uncovering the ancient secrets hidden beneath her tranquil oceans.

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2268
TOS
Dreams of the Raven

A merchant ship's frantic S.O.S sends the Enterprise speeding to the rescue! But the starship's mission of mercy soon becomes a desperate struggle for survival against a nightmarish enemy Captain Kirk can neither identify nor understand, an enemy he must defeat without the aid of one of his most trusted officers. For the Leonard McCoy Kirk knew is gone. In his place stands a stranger -- a man with no memory of his Starfleet career.

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2276
TOS
The Romulan Way

The capture of a Starfleet officer by the Romulans forces an undercover Federation agent to make a fateful choice - between maintaining her cover and saving the life of Dr. Leonard McCoy.

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2268
TOS
How Much for Just the Planet?

The greatest fortune in dilithium crystals ever seen has been found on a small planet named Direidi. Under the terms of the Organian Peace Treaty, the planet will go to the side best able to develop the planet and its resources. Each side will contest the prize with the prime of its fleet. For the Federation - Captain James T. Kirk and the Starship Enterprise. For the Klingons -- Captain Kaden vestai-Oparai and the Fire Blossom.

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2269
TOS
Bloodthirst

A class one medical emergency summons the Enterprise to the Federation outpost Tanis. There, two of the lab's three researchers are dead, their bodies almost entirely drained of blood. There are no clues. No records of their research. No remnants of their work. There is only the outpost's sole survivor, Dr. Jeffrey Adams. A man with a secret that will rock the very foundations of Starfleet.

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2267
TOS
The IDIC Epidemic
2267TOS #38Jean LorrahFeb 1988

Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combination is more than just a simple credo, for those of the planet Vulcan it is the cornerstone of their philosophy. Now, on the Vulcan Science Colony Nisus, that credo of tolerance is being being put to its sternest test when a deadly plague, whose origins are somehow rooted in the concept of I.D.I.C. itself, threatens to tear down that centuries-old maxim.

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2285
TOS
Time for Yesterday

Time in the galaxy has stopped running its normal course. That can only mean one thing - the Guardian of Forever is malfunctioning. To save the universe, Starfleet command reunites three of its most legendary figures - Admiral James T. Kirk, Spock of Vulcan, and Dr. Leonard McCoy - and sends them on a desperate mission to contact the Guardian, a journey that ultimately takes them 5,000 years into the past.

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TOS
Timetrap

When a massive energy surge hurtles Captain Kirk one hundred years into the future, he is amazed to find a peaceful Klingon world and is revered as an intergalactic peacemaker, but he must find a way to return home and bring the Great Peace of the future with him.

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2269
TOS
The Three-Minute Universe

In all Captain James T. Kirk's travels, he has never found a race more universally shunned and abhorred than the Sackers. Now the Sackers have performed a deed whose brutality matches their horrifying exterior. They have stolen a revolutionary new scientific device - murdering an entire race in the process - and used it to create a rip in the fabric of space, a hole through which another universe is rapidly leaking.

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2269
TOS
Memory Prime

The greatest scientists in the Federation have gathered unaware that a deadly assassin is stalking one of them. As Captain Kirk struggles to save his ship from sabotage he discovers the hidden assassin is far from the deadliest secret lurking on Memory Prime.

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2270
TOS
The Final Nexus

Interstellar gates, created centuries ago by an unknown race, are breaking down, taking the very stars in the sky with them. The fate of the galaxy rests in the hands of the Enterprise crew.

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TOS
Vulcan's Glory

Spock struggles to reconcile his many obligations -- those forced on him by his Vulcan heritage, and those chosen by him upon his enlistment in Starfleet -- to balance the wishes of others against the desires of his own heart.

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TOS
The Cry of the Onlies
2269TOS #46Judy KlassOct 1989

Negotiations between Captain Kirk and Federation colony Boaco Six Federation colony are proceeding smoothy until the atmosphere of goodwill is shattered by the sudden destruction of a Boacan - at the hands of an experimental Starfleet vessel.

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2273
TOS
The Kobayashi Maru

Kirk and most of his senior officers find themselves adrift in space with time enough to tell their stories of the Kobayashi Maru, a Starfleet Academy test given to command cadets. Discover how Starfleet Cadets Kirk, Chekov, Scotty, and Sulu each faced the test and became Starfleet officers.

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2278
TOS
Rules of Engagement

A sudden revolution on the planet Dekkanar brings the Enterprise running to evacuate Federation personnel trapped there. Meanwhile, an experimental Klingon warship sets forth on a mission of its own, a warship with hidden capabilities, commanded by a warrior who will stop at nothing to bring glory to his Empire. The Klingon ship's destination? The planet Dekkanar.

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2281
TOS
The Pandora Principle

The only hope for the Federation's survival lies buried in the tortured memory of Commander Spock's protégé Saavik. Together they must return to the nightmare world of Saavik's birth to discover the secret behind the Romulans' most deadly threat.

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