 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! |
May 1982 Cover Image    BOOK DETAILS
ISBN:
0-671-83297-2
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By: Lee Correy 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
The basic premise of this story: the ship is damaged and in need of repairs, has been done and redone too many times, although when this novel was written it hadn't been and this novel handles it pretty well. The cover art shows Kirk and Spock in "Motion Picture" style uniforms with "The Cage" style phasers which I thought was kind of strange. Oh well, I enjoyed the story. You really get the feeling that you're on an alien planet dealing with aliens and not just humans on another planet.
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