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CAPTAIN'S LOG, STARDATE 6945.4:
We have come upon a planet that is inhabited by a feudal society, based on agriculture, and closed to visitors from space so it can develop without interference. But an automatic probe has discovered a building that could not have been constructed by any of the natives. Starfleet has ordered the U.S.S. EnterpriseTM to carry out a discreet investigation. On my own initiative I have sent down a six-man landing team. It has been twelve hours and there has been no communication. The team's whereabouts cannot be traced....
The men and women of the Starship EnterpriseTM return in this dazzling volume of ten electrifying adventures set in deep space. Featuring the unforgettable characters created by Gene Roddenberry, each one of these extraordinary tales captures the beauty and courage of the fearless quest into uncharted realms--where others venture only in their boldest dreams....
Based on the blockbuster films and the legendary television show,these ten original Star Trek® stories boldly go where no one has gone before....
- Sales Rank: #1934012 in Books
- Published on: 1983-03-01
- Released on: 1983-03-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
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CAPTAIN'S LOG, STARDATE 6945.4:
We have come upon a planet that is inhabited by a feudal society, based on agriculture, and closed to visitors from space so it can develop without interference. But an automatic probe has discovered a building that could not have been constructed by any of the natives. Starfleet has ordered the U.S.S. EnterpriseTM to carry out a discreet investigation. On my own initiative I have sent down a six-man landing team. It has been twelve hours and there has been no communication. The team's whereabouts cannot be traced....
The men and women of the Starship EnterpriseTM return in this dazzling volume of ten electrifying adventures set in deep space. Featuring the unforgettable characters created by Gene Roddenberry, each one of these extraordinary tales captures the beauty and courage of the fearless quest into uncharted realms--where others venture only in their boldest dreams....
Based on the blockbuster films and the legendary television show,these ten original Star Trek® stories boldly go where no one has gone before....
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Surprise!
by Nichelle Nichols, Sondra Marshak, and Myrna Culbreath
Spock turned as the transporter effect released them, with some thought of how to hustle the Captain off to bed, not too obviously.
But Kirk was saying, "You won't forget that lullaby you just composed, will you, Uhura? It was a smash--not only with little Mori. I think you just lulled another planet right into the Federation. His grandparents are very influential, you know."
Uhura stepped down from the transporter, pleased. "I can't say I was thinking of that, Captain. Just of a very bright, very brave little boy who said that he wasn't lonely all that time on the wrecked ship when his parents were in a coma. He did seem to enjoy that belated birthday party, but still there was a loneliness about him."
Kirk smiled as they moved through the corridor to the turbo-lift. "Yes, there's something special about your very own party . . ." For a moment he was silent, and Spock stepped in with a voice command to the turbo-lift. It shot them to the level of officers' quarters with suitable alacrity. The Captain had very nearly been killed this day on what should have been a relatively routine rescue of the boy and his parents from a damaged ship. And Kirk had been under such stress for so long that it was a source of amazement to Spock how he kept on his feet, let alone took such obvious delight in the little boy, the impromptu party, the lullaby. Although it had to be admitted that the little boy was rather special, perhaps quite a lot like James Kirk had been . . .
They stepped out of the lift. "You make a terrific mother, Uhura," Kirk said.
She turned with a lift of eyebrow that was almost Vulcan. "Indeed? Thank you, Captain. But then, I always am. The ship is just full of little boys."
Kirk did a small double-take as she vanished through the door of her quarters, a "Good night, gentlemen" floating sweetly after her. Spock was not quite sure whether he heard correctly, "Sleep tight." It did not seem quite logical nor, if the Captain's expression was any indication, quite safe.
"When is her birthday?" Kirk muttered. "I think the traditional spanking might be in order."
Spock raised an eyebrow. "Fascinating custom, Captain. Do you really want to inaugurate it among the command crew of the Enterprise?"
Kirk shot him a look of mischief, with just a touch of speculation on whether the Vulcan implied that someone might try to inaugurate it on the Captain of the Enterprise.
"No," Kirk said firmly, in answer, or in rejection of the speculation. "But--" he looked back at Uhura's door, "there's no law against being sorely tempted."
"Indeed," Spock said blandly, and collected a small double-take himself.
Kirk paused beside his door, his mind visibly shifting to his ship. "I think I'll just check the bridge. It's a quiet night, but--" There was that look in his eye as when there was some odd mood among the crew or an engine running imperceptibly rough, some anomaly waiting to make its presence felt. Spock knew the look--and the feeling. He'd had a touch of it himself today, but it was doubtless only from the kind of day they had had. He could tell himself that and dismiss it with logic, but the Human could not.
"Jim, would you mind taking a look at my last move in our chess game? I'll take a turn around the bridge."
Kirk gave him the long-suffering look of being coddled too transparently. "Mother's little helper," he said with the look of a self-satisfied morgril.
"I trust you will find the move helpful Captain," Spock said in his best Vulcan manner.
"Mate in three moves," Kirk challenged.
"Two," Spock said innocently, and Kirk began to look worried. He laughed, with the look of giving in gracefully.
"All right, Spock. You hooked me. Sure you wouldn't like to tuck me in?"
Spock allowed himself to brighten visibly. "Quite a logical suggestion, I believe." He inclined an eyebrow toward Kirk's door. "Mother's little helper," he said helpfully.
"I'd just like to see you try it . . . No, belay that," Kirk said hastily. "I'm going, already. Before you decide to sing me a lullaby. Good night, Spock."
Spock resisted the temptation. It would ruin his reputation for Vulcan decorum--which was none too secure with this particular Human, in any case---to say, "Sleep tight." Besides, Kirk looked as if he had read the thought without benefit of telepathy. "Good night, Jim," Spock said.
Spock watched the Captain go through the door. Vulcan decorum might have suffered, but Vulcan discipline had made it through one more time of seeing that man go through this door after a day on which he had very nearly died. They both knew that, too.
Spock headed for the bridge. It had been too early to wish James Kirk happy birthday, and Spock was not quite certain that the Captain had fully realized that tomorrow was his birthday. But Kirk would discover, eventually, that Spock's last chess move was a special birthday present, planned for weeks for this night, and made this morning in the chess alcove which had been Spock's present to Kirk on his last birthday. The snap-in bulkhead doors had turned a little-needed access corridor between their quarters into a private sanctum-sanctorum where they kept their game-of-games. Their bathroom doors opened onto it, and the Captain of the Enterprise had taken to the custom wholeheartedly, finding it a convenient challenge to working out a move or two between showering and shaving.
But when Spock eased in stealthily after a late tour of the ship, Kirk had not made an answering move. Small wonder. Spock had made a move which a galactic grand master might not answer in a week.
Spock went contentedly to bed. That would occupy Kirk's worry circuits for the better part of a day. However, Kirk would see through it, if Spock knew his Kirk. And he did.
Kirk strolled onto the bridge the next morning, a bit late--some 47.234 minutes--looking a little sheepish, a little lazy, a little expectant, probably not quite certain whetber he had rolled over and gone back to sleep after the soft computer call.
Was it Spock's fault if there had needed to be a certain adjustment to the computer, and he had made it at a certain moment in a certain way with a certain predictable but unavoidable result?
There were routine morning greetings from the day-shift bridge crew--except Uhura, who had assigned a relief for an hour, and Sulu, who had excused himself on some errand in the botany lab, leaving the navigator to cover. Spock presented status reports on a clipboard display, showing all quiet.
"Good morning, Captain. You appear rested."
Kirk shot him a small look of wondering whether he was being deviled. "Yes, Mr. Spock. I gather it's been a slow morning at the store."
"Indeed, Captain."
Kirk sat down to dictate the Captain's log. His voice was just an imperceptible fraction off as he said the stardate, Spock perceived. No one had wished Kirk happy birthday.
The navigator flinched, not so imperceptibly, at the date, and Kirk caught it. Plainly, someone had forgotten. Kirk settled his shoulders and dictated the log in the voice of the Starship Captain. But once he glanced up toward Spock's station. He would know that the Vulcan would not forget, but he was Human enough to be a little hurt if others had. And Uhura had not been wrong. There was a certain element of the little boy--very prevalent among Humans, of course, but rather more evident in the Captain at times, since he permitted it to show through.
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A second book of new voyages
By Shawn Weaver
The second collection of Star Trek short stories is much weaker than the first, published the previous year. This may be because the editors had already culled the best of the fanzine material for the first book. It also may be because the editors and publisher, happy with the success of the first book, took more chances with the second. Either way, this outing was not as successful, and was not repeated. There are some items of interest here.
The first story is written by Nichelle Nichols, better known as Uhura. Titled "Surprise," the story is minor trifle about Uhura and other crew members attempting to throw Captain Kirk a surprise birthday party. The characters are not well portrayed here, although a certain camaraderie among the crew is observed.
The second story is "Snake Pit!" by Connie Faddis, and focuses on Christine Chapel being thrown into a situation (involving a snake pit, of course) where she must rescue an unconcious Captain Kirk from poisonous snakes on a hostile planet. The story itself is interesting, but involves Chapel acting significantly out of character. Another character acting in this position would have made for a more believable story.
"The Patient Parasites" by Russell Bates, who wrote on of the animated episodes, is a script that was turned down for that series, but makes for an interesting study on what a TV script looks like. The story itself works as well, involving an encounter with a machine built by an alien race, with a technology far beyond our own. It is unfortunate that the story echoes many similar ones in the original TV show, but there is some new ground here.
"In the Maze" by Jennifer Guttridge (also represented in the first collection) involves a sighting of a castle on a world where such technology should not exist. While investigating, Kirk, Spock and McCoy enter the door only to be transported to another place entirely, where Kirk is held captive and Spock and McCoy undergo a series of trials that seem designed to ellicit a response. The resolution, as with Guttridge's story in the first book, involves contact with a very alien species.
"Cave-In" by Jane Peyton is an interesting prose piece of dialogue between Spock and another character (McCoy?) while trapped together after a cave-in (of course). The piece is short, and not particularly shocking, but the form is an interesting departure for Star Trek and may interest readers on that count.
"Marginal Existence" by Connie Faddis is a quite short story about a planet where the Enterprise crew find a number of "sleepers," hooked up to large numbers of IV tubes (a bit outdated there) which continually pump drugs into them. The real science here is very lacking, but the idea proposed is an interesting one, about a society that becomes dependent on such injections.
"The Procrustean Petard" by Marshak and Culbreath is another of their riffs on the "alpha male" theme, this time as the Enterprise comes into contact with a society where the dominant (alpha) male is given an extra male chromosome, and the other crew members are sex-changed. So, Kirk and McCoy become women, while Uhura becomes a man, for instance. This story takes a look at male and female roles in a way that often seemed important in the 1970s, but seems awfully dated now. Like much of these authors' work.
"The Sleeping God" by Jesco von Puttkamer is an interesting story by an actual NASA rocket scientist, and onetime German science fiction writer, his first fiction work in English. The plot involves a mutant, with vast mental powers, revived from suspended animation to tackle a problem far too big for a normal starship, and thus quite a problem indeed, involving a sentient computer from another plane of existence, attempting to take over this plane. Again, this may be Star Trek's (or at least Gene Roddenberry's) favorite plot, but it is handled well here, and this is certainly the volume's best story, even if it actually uses the Enterprise crew only in a limited way.
Also included are two poems, "Elegy for Charlie" and "Soliloquy." The book is interesting, but again, not as good as the first.
0 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Even more "unprofessional" than the first one
By Mikael Kuoppala
Here is information about each of the stories in the order they were on the anthology, since they don't really have anything to do with each other. I've added my own individual rating of 1 to 5 stars, and a comment on each of the stories.
SURPRISE!
Written by: Nichelle Nichols, with Sondra Marshak & Myrna Culbreath
Rating: * */ * * * * *
A fun little story about Kirk's birthday, that doesn't really offer anything interesting.
SNAKE PIT
Written by: Connie Faddis
Rating: * / * * * * *
A plotless character story with extremely bad characterization. Need I say more?
THE PATIENT PARASITES
Written by: Russel Bates
Rating: * / * * * * *
An original script for the animated star trek series, that was turned down with a good reason. The writer stated in his introduction that the reasons behind the rejections didn't concern the quality of the story, but, in my opinion, they should have.
The plot is 100 per cent scince fiction cliché, and doesn't contain any original, thought provoking, or entertaining aspects. It was hard to believe the writer was part of the team behind "How Sharper Than A Serpent's Tooth", one of the very best episodes of the animated series that earned an Emmy for the show.
IN THE MAZE
Written by: Jennifer Guttridge
Rating: * */ * * * * *
Good characterization doesn't save this predictable and utterly unoriginal piece of writing
CAVE-IN
Written by: Jane Payton
Rating: */ * * * * *
A semi-artistic little "talking heads" dialoque that anyone could write.
MARGINAL EXISTANCE
Written by: Connie Faddis
Rating: */ * * * * *
Based on a very promising concept, but is executed poorly.
THE PROCRUSTEAN PETARD
Written by: Sondra Marshak & Myrna Culbreath
Rating: */ * * * * *
Imagine Spock with a YY-chromosome syndrome, and the rest of the crew of the Enterprise undergoing a sex-change operation.
A bad fan fiction story attempting to be a parody?
Unfortunately it's possibly the worst ever officially published star trek story.
It's a story that has a strong message: Women are weak, men are intelligent and strong. I couldn't believe it was written in the 20th century by two women. All female-turned-male officers notice that they are many times better than they were before, and the male-turned-female officers notice that they can't do anything anymore, repeating again and again that women shouldn't have important positions in starfleet.
The plot is simplistic, and the reader knows the solution to the problem long before the characters do.
Definitely outdated by now, if it wasn't then.
THE SLEEPING GOD
Written by: Jesco Von Puttkamer
Rating: * */ * * * * *
An ambtious story stumbles miserably on horrible characterization, bad pacing and unintended comedy.
ELEGY FOR CHARLIE
Written by: Antonia Vallario
Rating: */ * * * * *
A bad poem.
SOLILOGUY
Written by: Marguerite B. Thompson
Rating: */ * * * * *
A bad poem.
I'll have to mention that there was a truly good epiloque in the end by Nichelle Nichols, wich made the anthology look much more dignified than the stories permit.
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