 Trekkkieguy's tribute to the original Star Trek TV series & movies featuring sound clips, book reviews, memory wall, image gallery & more! |
Trekkkieguy's tribute to the original Star Trek TV series & movies featuring sound clips, book reviews, memory wall, image gallery & more! |
 February 1980 Cover Image    BOOK DETAILS
ISBN: 0-553-13580-5
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By: Jack C. Haldeman II (Text taken from the February 1980 edition) Planet of Perilous Peace Kirk, Spock, Scotty and the Enterprise crew face battle with the Klingons in a strange world ruled by a 'human' who's been dead for 300 years! Soon the entire crew has fallen under the planet's mysterious force - stripped of their power to wage war - as the subhuman Immunes advance . . . and the Klingon legions hover overhead! (Text taken from the September 1984 edition) Ship's Log, Lieutenant Commander Montgomery Scott Recording, Stardate 6845.3 The Situation on board the Enterprise is now critical. That strange 'disease' accidently brought back from Perry's Planet by the landing party has made it impossible for any of us to even consider committing an act of violence: as long as the Klingons continue their sporadic firing, we are helpless. Unable to leave orbit or use the transporter and still maintain our shields at the necessary level. For now, we can only assume a defensive posture - and before too long, the ship's failing dilithium crystals will prevent even that. Because we've been unable to contact Captain Kirk or the rest of the landing party for several hours, I've held off taking any action, but we are running out of options.
The Klingons feature prominently in a lot of the early Bantam novels, which is good because they made good enemies in the early days of Trek. I like the Klingons of classic Trek better than the Klingons of modern Trek. You could count on them to be really bad dudes, which made for great story telling. This story is ok. Nothing great, but ok.
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