The Original Series Novels

Pocket Books - 1990s

Rules of Engagement

The Enterprise is sent to the planet Dekkanar with strict orders to evacuate Federation personnel and not to show force; but a Klingon warship has other ideas.

The Pandora Principle

Spock and Saavik must return 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

Dr. McCoy finds himself in command of the Enterprise when Kirk disappears on a strange planet and Klingons appear on the scene.

Prime Directive

Kirk and the crew of the 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

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.

Home Is the Hunter

When the Enterprise and a Klingon ship carry their dispute to a primitive planet, a powerful being traps Scotty, Sulu, and Chekov in the historical past of their ancestors.

Ghost-Walker

The Enterprise is caught in a struggle for survival from a silent killer who stalks the ship when Kirk comes to help the Midgwins, who are on the brink of ecological disaster and global famine.

A Flag Full of Stars

As Admiral Kirk directs the refit of the Enterprise and a ceremonial flight of NASA's space shuttle Enterprise, he becomes involved in stopping a Klingon plot to steal a scientific breakthrough that could be used to destroy the Federation.

Renegade

Sent to prevent a conflict between the planets Chrellkran III and IV, Kirk finds himself fighting a plot to overthrow the Federation as an act of revenge.

Legacy

Kirk and an away team are trapped on a primitive planet while Spock, who is suffering from the effects of a poison, must confront the ruthless Dreen, who Spock and Captain Pike defeated 10 years before.

The Rift

Captain Kirk and the Enterprise are sent to transport a delegation to Callega, which lies hundreds of light years away and can only be reached through a rift in space that occurs every 50 years.

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

Novelization of: Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.

Faces of Fire

Enroute to a planet to mediate a religious war, the Enterprise drops off Spock at a terraforming colony, where he becomes involved, with Carol and David Marcus, in a battle against the Klingons.

Probe

With the death of the Romulan Praetor, an opportunity exists for peace between the Federation and the Romulans; but the Whalesong Probe enters Romulan space, giving hardline Romulans an opportunity to destroy any chance for peace.

The Disinherited

A peaceful Federation colony becomes the third world to suffer a brutal attack at the hands of a mysterious alien fleet, and the Enterprise is sent to investigate the attacks, only to find themselves involved in a battle that could affect the entire Federation.

Ice Trap

A team of scientists assigned to the ice planet Nordstral vanish, and the Enterprise must battle hostile natives and an unexplained form of insanity to find the missing scientists.

Sanctuary

The Enterprise is assigned to search for and capture a dangerous criminal, and on the mysterious planet known as Sanctuary, the crew find themselves in a life and death struggle from which there seems to be no escape.

Death Count

Sent to patrol the border between the feuding Andorians and Orions, the Enterprise begins to encounter incidents of sabotage, including the murder of Enterprise crew members.

Best Destiny

Captain Kirk recalls a trip to the planet Faramond, as a 16-year old, with his father, George Kirk, and Captain Robert April, which pits them in a real-life struggle for survival.

Shell Game

While on a routine mission to retrieve a research drone, the Enterprise encounters a lifeless Romulan space station adrift in Federation space, and the crew begin to see ghostly apparitions out the corner of their eyes.

The Starship Trap

Enroute to an important diplomatic reception, a Klingon warship intercepts the Enterprise, accusing the Federation of attacking Klingon vessels; but the vessels of all star systems are disappearing and the Enterprise must find out why.

Window on a Lost World

While exploring the ruins of an ancient civilization, Kirk, Spock, and Chekov discover windows to a strange and dangerous alien world.

Shadows on the Sun

Forty years after he first met her, McCoy again meets his first love; but he risks losing her again in his efforts to rescue Captain Kirk from terrorists who kidnap him.

From the Depths

A human colony is locked in a deadly power struggle with the native inhabitants of Okeanos, and Captain Kirk is charged with sabotaging an Okeanian city.

The Great Starship Race

When a friendly alien race called the Rey make contact with the Federation, they celebrate by staging a great starship competition; but the Romulans soon crash the party.

Firestorm

The Enterprise is sent to the planet Rakatan to mediate a dispute between a Federation geological expedition and the Elasians over dilitium mining rights; but a cataclysmic volcanic eruption soon turns this into a rescue mission.

Sarek

Spock returns to Vulcan to be with his dying mother, Amanda; but as Amanda's condition worsens, Sarek and the Enterprise must travel to the Klingon homeworld to confront a mysterious enemy intent on destroying the Federation.

The Patrian Transgression

The Enterprise is sent to Patria I to discuss that world's application for Federation membership; but Kirk and his landing party soon discover that the Patrians have a strict system of laws that is enforced by a telepathic police force.

Traitor Winds

A powerful businessman jealous of Admiral Kirk's successes sets out to frame Sulu and Chekov for murder and treason against the Federation in his plan to sell advanced technology to both the Klingons and Romulans in an attempt to have them destroy each other in war.

Crossroad

The Enterprise beams aboard the crew of a battered starship who claim to be freedom fighters from the future who are working to save the Federation from the Consilium, a group of corrupt power-seekers; but when they seize control of the Enterprise and a starship from the future arrives to arrest the renegades, Kirk and crew must decide which group is the Federation's true allies.

The Better Man

When the planet Empyrea, a colony of genetically perfect humans, demands that a Federation science station be removed, the Enterprise is sent to transport a Federation ambassador to the planet to try to negotiate a mutual agreement; and while there, McCoy learns that he has a daughter on Empyrea, who the Empyreans do not know is less than genetically perfect.

Recovery

Admiral Kirk is assigned to supervise testing of the USS Recovery, an experimental rescue vessel; but when the Recovery becomes a pawn in a plot that could lead to interstellar war and Dr. McCoy is hunted through the lower levels of the ship by a homocidal maniac, Kirk must find a way to save McCoy and rescue the Recovery.

The Ashes of Eden

Six months prior to the launch of the Enterprise-B, Captain Kirk faces the spectre of retirement and alife devoid of challenge; but when a mysterious young woman offers him an irresistible adventure, he finds himself fighting a threat to the fragile peace between the Federation and the Klingon Empire.

The Fearful Summons

Captain Sulu and the crew of the starship Excelsior are kidnapped by a little-known race called the Thaxians, and when negotiations for their release breakdown, Captain Kirk and the former crew of the Enterprise reunite to rescue their old comrade.

First Frontier

While testing a new shield, the Enterprise is caught in the middle of a Klingon-Romulan battle and are hurled back in time to the age of the dinosaurs, where they find that the timeline has been changed to allow one species of dinosaurs to evolve into an intelligent species that did not allow humans to evolve on Earth.

The Captain's Daughter

When Demora Sulu suddenly attacks her commanding officer, who kills her in self-defense, everyone is stunned, and her father Captain Hikaru Sulu goes to the planet where she was killed to learn the truth, only to be confronted by an old enemy eager to destroy his reputation and his life.

Twilight's End

While helping a planet that does not spin on its axis to activate gigantic impulse engines to start the planet rotating, something goes wrong, threatening to destroy the planet; and Captain Kirk and Scotty must race to stop disaster.

The Return

When the Borg and the Romulans form an unholy alliance to resurrect the body of Captain James Kirk to use it against Captin Jean-Luc Picard, the Borg's most formidable enemy, two generations of Enterprise legends join forces to combat this new threat.

The Rings of Tautee

When the Tautee solar sysem begins to disintegrate into rubble, Captain Kirk suspects that a new Klingon superweapon is involved; but because Tautee isn't ready to join the Federation, Kirk's rescue efforts provoke a hostile response from Klingon warships.

The Joy Machine

Captain Kirk and the Enterprise are sent to investigate the reason why a friendly and hospitable people have suddenly cut themselves off from all outside contact, only to find that the planet's people are held hostage to a new technology that gives them total pleasure.

Mudd in Your Eye

The Enterprise is sent to investigate a recently-achieved peace between two planets that have been at war for millennia, only to find that none other than Harry Mudd was the architect of that peace.

Avenger

While investigating evidence that his father, Sarek, was murdered, Spock encounters Captain James Kirk who, long-believed to be dead, is on his own quest for the source of a lethal virus that is killing a plant life on Federation worlds, pushing it into starvation.

Mind Meld

When Spock escorts his niece, a child destined to play a role in the eventual reunification of the Vulcan and Romulan people, back to Vulcan, the child accidentally learns the identity of a deadly, putting her and Spock's lives in danger.

Starfleet Academy

When a series of "accidents" begins to plague Starfleet Academy, Cadet David Forester sets out to find and stop the cause, putting himself in the middle of a mission with Captain Kirk and company to stop a series of even deadlier raids against Federation outposts. [Based on the CD-ROM game of the same name.]

Vulcan's Forge

A year after Captain Kirk's death on Veridian III, Captain Spock is called upon to help a friend from his youth fight off the treachery of the Romulans, and Spock finds himself reflecting on his youth and the decisions he made early in life.

Heart of the Sun

When the Enterprise is sent to invesigate an abandoned space habitat, they find a treasure trove of alien technological science; but the habitat's shifting orbit sends it on a collision course with an inhabited planet.

Assignment: Eternity

The Enterprise gets a surprise visit from Gary Seven, who hijacks the starship and takes it deep into Romulan territory on a mission known only to himself.

Spectre

As James Kirk arrives back on Earth for the first time since his apparent "death" on the Enterprise-B, Captain Picard and the crew of the Enterprise-E unexpectedly discover the battered starship Voyager, revealing a threat to the Federation that only Kirk can help defeat.

Vulcan's Heart

Spock and Saavik are to be bonded in a Vulcan ceremony to be attended by officials from Starfleet and Vulcan, but when Spock receives a secret communication from the Romulan homeworld, he leaves his betrothed on a secret political mission that has severe ramifications for interstellar peace and for him personally, as he begins to feel the fires of pon'far.

My Brother's Keeper: Book 1 - Republic

Captain Kirk recalls his early friendship and first mission with Gary Mitchell [from "Where No Man Has Gone Before"] aboard the starship Republic as security officers during a peace ceremony on a planet about to end centuries of interplanetary war.

My Brother's Keeper: Book 2 - Constitution

Returning home after Gary Mitchell's death, Captain Kirk recalls the first time he held Mitchell's life in his hands, during an enemy attack on the starship Constitution that left Kirk as the senior officer in charge.

My Brother's Keeper: Book 3 - Enterprise

Now aboard the Enterprise with Gary Mitchell as navigator, Captain Kirk encounters the Klingons for the first time and must rely on Spock to help rescue Mitchell, who has been captured by the enemy.

Mission to Horatius

Reprint of the 1968 novel that started the ever-expanding universe of Star Trek novels. Captain Kirk and the crew of the USS Enteprise embark on an early mission to explore "strange new world" called Horatius.

Across the Universe

The Enterprise comes upon the Hawking, a generational ship sent to colonize a distant world, and Kirk's attempts to help the would-be colonists is met by resistance from these people from a more violent and paranoid time in Earth's history.

Dark Victory

With Spock, McCoy, and Scotty at his side, and reteamed with Captain Picard and the crew of the Enterprise-E, James Kirk fights to save the Federation from a most fearsome enemy, his Mirror Universe alter ego.