The Original Series Novels

Pocket Books - 1970s-80s

Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Novelization of: Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

The Entrophy Effect

A brilliant, but criminal, 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 Gambit

When the Enterprise is ordered 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 Crown

An Enterprise shuttlecraft 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 Design

The Enterprise is sent on a 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 Life

The Enterprise, crippled and 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: The Wrath of Kahn

Novelization of: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn.

Black Fire

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.

Triangle

Kirk and Spock are both 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.

Web of the Romulans

The Romulan Empire is being ravaged by a killer virus and enter the Federation world of Canara, where the only antidote can be found; but as Kirk and the Enterprise go to deal with the Romulan threat, the ship's computer gets a case of love sickness of its own -- for Kirk.

Yesterday's Son

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 Enterprise

The Enterprise is crippled in orbit around a strange, living planet, and an alien woman on board is inciting the crew to a pacifist mutiny.

The Wounded Sky

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 Confrontation

The Enterprise rushes to 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

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 Reflection

On board the Enterprise during 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.

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

Novelization of: Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.

Rihanssu: Book 1 - My Enemy, My Ally

Romulan Commander Ael is a 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 the Singers

The Enterprise crew and the 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 Academy Murders

While Kirk, Spock, and McCoy 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

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

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

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.

Killing Time

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 Crucible

The Romulans have kidnapped 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 Symbols

Agricultural scientist Jean 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

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 Centaurus

The planet Centaurus has been 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

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

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.

Enterprise: The First Adventure

Captain Kirk, new commander of 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

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: The Voyage Home

Novelization of: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.

Chain of Attack

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

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 Ravens

While answering a merchant ship's desperate distress call, the Enterprise confronts an unknown but dangerous enemy that controls McCoy through his dreams.

Strangers from the Sky

Kirk and Spock are tormented 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.

Rihanssu: Book 2 - The Romulan Way

Undercover Federation agent Terise La Brutto recounts her life among the Rihannsu (Romulans) and her encounter with McCoy and the renegade Romulan Commander Ael.

How Much for Just the Planet?

The small planet Direidi has a fortune in natural dilithium, which the Federation and the Klingons both want; but the whacky practical-joker inhabitants of the planet have other ideas.

Bloodthirst

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

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 Epidemic

A plague rages across the Vulcan science colony on Misus, where all peoples of the galaxy -- humand, Vulcans, even Klingons -- work side by side.

Time for Yesterday

Time in the galaxy has stopped 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

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.

The Three-Minute Universe

An abhorred race called the Sackers uses a revolutionary 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

Spock, Sarek, and Kirk try to persuade the Vulcan ruling council to reverse its decision to secede from the Federation.

Memory Prime

The greatest scientists in the universe gather at Memory Prime, the Federation's ultimate library complex; and Kirk becomes involved in stopping an assassination attempt.

The Final Nexus

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

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

The USS Hood inadvertently 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: The Final Frontier

Novelization of: Star Trek V: The Final Frontier.

The Lost Years

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.

The Cry of the Onlies

When an experimental starship 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 Maru

Trapped in a crippled and drifting shuttlecraft, Kirk and other crew members discuss the Kobayashi Maru scenario, which holds the key to their survival.