Vulcan!

Vulcan!
Cover of first printing/edition of Vulcan! (1978) by Kathleen Sky. Cover art by Bob Larkin.
Author Kathleen Sky
Cover artist Bob Larkin
Country United States
Language English
Subject Star Trek
Genre Science fiction
Publisher Bantam Books
Publication date
 September 1978
Media type Print (Paperback)
Pages 175
ISBN 0-553-12137-5
Preceded by Planet of Judgment
Followed by The Starless World

Vulcan! (1978) is a Star Trek tie-in novel by Kathleen Sky. The book is an adaptaion of an an unproduced spec script by Sky.

Plot summary

Ion storms have caused the boundaries of the Neutral Zone between the Federation and Romulans to shift. The planet Arachne IV, inhabited by a strange ant-like race, could be lost to the Federation due to the changes in space. However, Mr. Spock goes on a death-defying assignment into a war of ant-like creatures along with a scientist who dislikes Vulcans.

Production

Kathleen Sky submitted a spec script to the producers Star Trek during the production the show's third season. She was informed the script may be produced the following season. However, the series was cancelled late in the third season's production.[1]

Editors at Bantam Books recruited Sky to contribute a Star Trek tie-in novel sometime after 1976. She opted to adapt her unproduced script.[1] David Gerrold, the writer of the episode "The Trouble With Tribbles", wrote a foreword to the novel.[2] Sky's husband, Stephen Goldin, also wrote the tie-in novel Trek to Madworld, also published by Bantam.

By 2008, an first edition copy of Vulcan! was valued up to US$22.[3]

Reception

A bibliographic note in the December 1979 edition of Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Review that "Sky ascribes more emotion to Spock than is logical under the circumstances [of the plot]".[4]

See also

  • Star Trek portal

References

  1. 1 2 Ayers, Jeff (14 Nov 2006). Voyages of Imagination: The Star Trek Fiction Companion. New York: Pocket Books. p. 19. ISBN 1-4165-0349-8.
  2. ↑ "Trek Writer David Gerrold Looks Back - Part 1". StarTrek.com. 2011-01-24. Retrieved 2013-12-23.
  3. ↑ Kelley, Stephen (24 Oct 2008). Star Trek: The Collectibles. Iola, Wisconsin: Krause Publications. p. 55. ISBN 978-0-89689-637-6.
  4. ↑ Barron, Neil, ed. (Dec 1979). "Reconsiderations: Star Trek Rides Again". Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Review. Vol. 1 no. 11. Borgo Press. p. 5. ISSN 0163-4348.
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