# | Year | 1st Read | Title | Author(s) | My Rating | |
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1 | 1979 | 1979 | (1) Star Trek: The Motion Picture Cover Blurb | Gene Roddenberry | | |
| THE GREAT BIRD OF THE GALAXY WRITE A STAR TREK NOVEL!
The writer-producer who created Mr. Spock and all the other Star Trek characters - who invented the Starship Enterprise, who gave the show its look, its ideals - puts it all together again here in his first Star Trek novel!
Their historic 5-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 U.S.S. Enterprise as an incredibly destructive POWER threatens earth and the human race.
Paramount Pictures Presents A GENE RODDENBERRY Production A ROBERT WISE Film STAR TREK - THE MOTION PICTURE Starring WILLIAM SHATNER LEONARD NIMOY DeFOREST KELLEY Presenting PERSIS KHAMBATTA Co-Starring JAMES DOOHAN GEORGE TAKEI MAJEL BARRETT WALTER KOENIG NICHELLE NICHOLS and Starring STEPHEN COLLINS as Decker Music by JERRY GOLDSMITH Screenplay by HAROLD LIVINGSTON Story by ALAN DEAN FOSTER Produced by GENE RODDENBERRY Directed by ROBERT WISE
A Paramount Picture STAR TREK THE MOTION PICTURE | |
2 | 1981 | 1992 | (2) The Entropy Effect Cover Blurb | Vonda N McIntyre | | |
| THE ENTROPY EFFECT
THE U.S.S. Enterprise™ is summoned to transport a dangerous criminal from Starbase prison to a rehabilitation center: brilliant physicist Dr. Georges Mordreaux, accused of promising to send people back in time - then killing them instead.
But there's more at stake than just a few lives. For Mordreaux's experiments have somehow thrown the entire universe into a deadly time warp. All of existence is closing in on itself - and only Spock can stop THE ENTROPY EFFECT!
"Vonda McIntyre's STAR TREK™ adventures always have many extras." - Gene Roddenberry | |
3 | 1981 | 1994 | (3) The Klingon Gambit Cover Blurb | Robert E Vardeman | | |
| THE KLINGONS ARE HUNGRY FOR WAR... THEIR TARGET THE ENTERPRISE!
When Captina Kirk and his crew are ordered to Alnath II to challenge the deadliest Klingon starship Terror, they're ready for anything - or so they think. But the defensless Vulcan crew of a Federation science ship has been whiped out. The remaining members of the Alnath II mission have discovered a fabulous ancient city - but their report doesn't make sense. The Klingon battle cruiser has the Enterprise in its sights, and is ready to destroy it.
But Captain Kirk can't seem to make decisions. Spock has started to throw temper tantrums. And Chekov has disobeyed vital orders.
The crew of the Enterprise are losing their minds... one by one... all victims of... THE KLINGON GAMBIT | |
4 | 1981 | 1994 | (4) The Covenant of the Crown Cover Blurb | Howard Weinstein | | |
| THE SHADDAN CROWN IS THE KEY TO POWER - AND THE KLINGONS HAVE THE ADVANTAGE!
An Enterprise shuttle is forced to crash-land in a violent storm on the barren planet Sigma 1212. Spock, McCoy and Kailyn, the beautiful heir to the Shaddan throne, survive in the near disaster.
Now, pursued by primitive hunters and a band of Klingon scouts, they must reach the mountain where the fabulous dynastic crown is hidden. With the help of Spock and McCoy, and their own fantastic mental powers. Kailyn ust prove that she alone is the true heir to the throne.
If they fail, they will open the door for Klingon takeover of the whole quadrant - and the galaxy's hope to live long and prosper will fall in the shadow of a cruel tyranny! | |
5 | 1982 | 1994 | (5) The Prometheus Design Cover Blurb | Myrna Culbreath Sondra Marshak | | |
| CAN THE GALAXY'S GROWING VIOLENCE BE STOPPED?
Captain Kirk and his crew are on a mission to investigate the mysterious wave of violence that has overtaken the Helvans - revolutions, mass riots, horrible tortures. But this chaos is all part of an experiment by an unimaginable power that soon grips even the crew of the Enterprise... Captain Kirk is plagued by violent hallucinations and removed from command. Spock takes charge but his orders seem irrational - even cruel. Unless this terrible power can be stopped, not only the Enterprise, but an entire galaxy will be ensnared in the deadly grip of the... PROMETHEUS DESIGN | |
6 | 1982 | 1993 | (6) The Abode of Life Cover Blurb | Lee Correy | | |
| ON THE PLANET MERCAN THERE ARE NO STARS, NO MOON, NO OUTER SPACE...
The citizens of Mercan cannot conceive of worlds beyond their own. Their sun, Mercaniad, is prone to deadly, radioactive flare-ups, and the Mercans have organized their life around the need to survive The Ordeal - until a strange visitor appears from out of nowhere...
The Enterprise, badly crippled and in desperate need of repairs, must seek help from a people who cannot believe in its existence. Mercaniad is about to blow, and James Kirk faces an impossible choice: to attack the sun itself and save his ship and crew - or let a people live in peace, in the only world they know...
THE ABODE OF LIFE | |
7 | 1982 | 1995 | (7) The Wrath of Khan Cover Blurb | Vonda N McIntyre | | |
| PREPARE YOURSELF FOR WARP-10 EXCITEMENT!
The Galaxy's ultimate future is in the hands of James Kirk, Mr. Spock and the indomitable crew of the Enterprise...
The Galaxy's ultimate weapon is in the hands of the evil Khan and his followers.
A battle that will shake the universe cannot be avoided... And the ultimate adventure is about to begin! | |
8 | 1983 | 1995 | (8) Black Fire Cover Blurb | Sonni Cooper | | |
| SPOCK A TRAITOR?
There is sabbotage 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.
Now Spock has been declared a traitor and condemned to the shame of the Federation's highest security prison. And now Captain James Kirk must face the toughest decision of his command, while a lifelong friendship and the destiny of the free universe hang in the balance! | |
9 | 1983 | 1995 | (10) Web of the Romulans Cover Blurb | M S Murdock | | |
| 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.
Meanwhile the central computer has fallen in love with him, severely crippling the Enterprise. Now Kirk must bring the antidote to the Romulans - before the galaxy crashes over the brink of war!
Look for the Other Star Trek Novels Available from Pocket Books | |
10 | 1984 | 1994 | (17) The Search for Spock Cover Blurb | Vonda N McIntyre | | |
| NO ONE ON THE ENTERPRISE CAN BELIEVE THAT MR. SPOCK IS GONE!
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 teaming with life. But Genesis can also destroy existing worlds.
The creators of the Device want it given freely to the Galaxy. But Starfleet Command fear that it will become a force for evil. And the enemies of the Federation will not rest until they seize it - as their most powerful weapon in the battle to conquer the Galaxy!
Paramount Pictures a Harve Bennett Production STAR TREK® III: THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK William Shatner DeForest Kelley Co-starring James Doohan George Takei Walter Koenig Nichelle Nochols Marritt Butrick and Christopher Lloyd Executive Consultant Gene Roddenberry Music by Jame Horner Executive Producer Gary Nardino Visual Effects by Industrial Lights and Magic Based on STAR TREK Created by Gene Roddenberry Written and Produced by Harve Bennett Directed by Leonard Nimoy DOLBY MPAA Panavision® A Paramount Picture | |
11 | 1986 | 1994 | (29) Dreadnought! Cover Blurb | Diane Carey | | |
| DREADNOUGHT!
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, or subduing a galaxy.
On the eve of her maiden voyage, Star Empire is stolen by terrorists who demand a rendezvous with the Enterprise - a with Lieutenant Piper, stationed aboard Kirk's ship on her first training cruise. Now Piper must discover why her friends from Starfleet are among the terrorists... and why they insist the ship was stolen not to attack the Federation - but to save it! | |
12 | 1987 | 1995 | (34) Dreams of the Raven Cover Blurb | Carmen Carter | | |
| 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 not understand, an enemy he must defeat without the aid of one of his most trusted officers.
For the Leonard McCoy Kirk once knew is gone. In his place stands a stranger - a man with no memory of his Starfleet career, his family, his friends... or the one thing James T. Kirk needs most of all.
His dreams. | |
13 | 1987 | | (36) How Much for Just the Planet? Cover Blurb | John M Ford | | |
| HOW MUCH FOR JUST THE PLANET?
Dilitium. In crystaline form, the most valuable mineral in the galaxy. It powers the Federation starships... and the Klingon Empire's battlecruisers. Now on a small, out-of-the-way planet named Direidi, the greatest fortune in dilithium crystals ever seen has been found.
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.
Only the Direidians are writing their own script for this contest - a script that propels the crew of the Enterprise into their strangest adventure yet! | |
14 | 1988 | 1994 | (40) Timetrap Cover Blurb | David Dvorkin | | |
| TIMETRAP
In a remote area of Federation space, the Enterprise picks up an urgent distress signal - from a Klingon vessel! Tracking the S.O.S., the crew finds the Klingon cruiser Mauler, trapped in a dimensional storm of unprecedented power. Yet paradoxically, the ship refuses both the Enterprise's call and the offers of help.
Determined to discover what the Klingons are doing in Federation space, Kirk beams aboard their ship with a security team, just as the storm flares to its highest intensity. As the bridge crew watches in horror, Mauler vanishes from the Enterprise's viewscreen.
And James T. Kirk awakens... one hundred years in the future. | |
15 | 1988 | 1994 | (41) The Three-Minute Universe Cover Blurb | Barbara Paul | | |
| THE THREE-MINUTE UNIVERSE
The Sackers. In all Captian James T. Kirk's travels, he has never found a race more universally shunned and abhorred. Their mere appearance causes most Federation members to become violently ill.
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. Unless Captain Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise™ can find a way to stop the new universe's expansion, it will consume - and utterly destroy - our own. | |
16 | 1988 | 1995 | (42) Memory Prime Cover Blurb | Garfield Reeves-Stevens Judith Reeves-Stevens | | |
| MEMORY PRIME
It is the central core of an immense computer library - an entire network of research planetoids. Here, the Pathfinders - the only artificial intelligence legally permitted to serve the Federation - control and sift the overwhelming dataflow from thousands and thousands of research vessels across the galaxy...
Now the greatest scientists in the Federation have gathered here for the prestigious Nobel and Z-Magnees prize ceremonies - unaware that a deadly assassin is talking one of them. And as Captain Kirk struggles to save his ship from sabotage and his first officer from accusations of murder, he discovers the hidden assassin is far from the deadliest secret lurking on Memory Prime... | |
17 | 1988 | | (43) The Final Nexus Cover Blurb | Gene DeWeese | | |
| THE FINAL NEXUS
Uncounted centuries ago, an unknown race from beyond our galaxy created a series of interstellar gates - shortcuts across our universe - and then disappeared, leaving behind no clues to their fate, or the operation of their system. Twice before, the Enterprise has used the system to traverse the galaxy, and returned each time no wiser to the gates' operation.
Not it is imperative that they find out. For the gates 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, and their ability to communicate not only with creatures from another world - but from another universe as well. | |
18 | 1989 | 1994 | (46) The Cry of the Onlies Cover Blurb | Judy Klass | | |
| THE CRY OF THE ONLIES
Boaco Six - a once-tranquil Federation colony, now caught up in the throes of revolution. The Enterprise's mission: re-establish contact with the planet, and determine whether or not formal ties between the Federation and Boaco Six should be strengthened.
Negotiations between Captain Kirk and the planet's ruling Council of Youngers are proceeding smoothly, until the atmosphere of goodwill is shattered by the sudden destruction of a Boacan sjip - at the hands of and experimental Starfleet vessel!
Now, in order to prevent full-scale war from breaking out, the Enterprise must recapture the stolen Starfleet vessel and its abductors. A mission that will require the aid of the galaxy's most reclusive genius - and bring Captain Kirk face-to-face with the long-buried secrets of his past... | |
19 | 1989 | 1994 | (47) The Kobayashi Maru Cover Blurb | Julia Ecklar | | |
| THE KOBAYASHI MARU
A freak shuttlecraft accident - and suddenly Captain Kirk and most of his senior officers find themselves adrift in space, with no hope of rescue, no hope of repairing their craft, or restoring communications - with nothing, in short, but time on their hands.
Time enough for each to tell the story of the Kobayashi Maru - the Starfleet Academy test given to command cadets. Normally a tactical excersise, the Kobayashi Maru is in fact a test of character revealed in the choices each man makes - and does not make.
Discover now how Starfleet Cadets Kirk, Checkov, Scotty, and Sulu each faced the Kobayashi Maru... and became in turn Starfleet officers. | |
20 | 1990 | 1995 | (48) Rules of Engagement Cover Blurb | Peter Morwood | | |
| RULES OF ENGAGEMENT
A sudden revolution on the planet Dekkanar brings Captain Kirk and the Enterprise running to evacuate Federation personel trapped there. But their orders from Starfleet are quite clear: the Enterprise is to assist in the evacuation, no more. No weapons are to be displayed, no shields raised, no shots fired.
Meanwhile, halfway accross the galaxy, an experimental warship sets forth on a mission of its own, a warship with hidden - and heretofore undreamed of - capabilities, commanded by a warrior who will stop at nothing to bring glory to his Empire - and restore his own lost honor.
The Klingon ship's destination? The planet Dekkanar... | |
21 | 1994 | 1995 | (72) The Better Man Cover Blurb | Howard Weinstein | | |
| THE BETTER MAN
When the planet Empyrea, a colony of genetically perfected human beings, demands that the Federation remove a science station which has been in place for nearly twenty years, the Starship Enterprise™ is assigned to transport to the planet the Federation ambassador who negotiated with the Empyreans long ago - an ambassador who was once Dr. McCoy's closest friend, but is now a bitter rival.
On Empyrea, McCoy discovers Anna, a daughter he never knew he had. McCoy soon realizes that the isolationist Empyreans must not learn her father is an off-worlder, and that her genes are less than "perfect." As relations with the Empereans collapse around him, McCoy must find a way to save his newfound daughter from the harshest penalty her planet can impose. | |
22 | 1986 | 1995 | (999) The Voyage Home Cover Blurb | Vonda N McIntyre | | |
| At last, Admiral James T. Kirk and the crew of the late starship Enterprise begin the long voyage home.
But their trip is interrupted by the appearance of a mysterious, all-powerful intruder. Suddenly Kirk, Spock, McCoy and the rest of the crew must journey back through time to twentieth-century Earth. For only there can they save the future - by rescuing the past!
PARAMOUNT PICTURES PRESENTS A HARVE BENNETT PRODUCTIONS • A LEONARD LIMOY FILM STAR TREK IV: THE VOYAGE HOME WILLIAM SHATNER • LEONARD NIMOY • DeFOREST KELLEY Co-Starring JAMES DOOHAN • GEORGE TAKEI • WALTER KOENIG • NICHELLE NICHOLS And CATHERINE HICKS Executive Consultant GENE RODDENBERRY Music by LEONARD ROSENMAN Director of Photography DONALD PETERMAN, A.S.C. Executive Producer RALPH WINTER Based upon STAR TREK® Created by GENE RODDENBERRY Screenplay by STEVE MEERSON & PETER KRIKES and HARVE BENNETT & NICHOLAS MEYER Story by LEONARD NIMOY & HARVE BENNETT Produced by HARVE BENNETT • Directed by LEONARD NIMOY A PARAMOUNT PICTURE | |