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Another unforgettable Star Trek experience with Captain Kirk and his crew.

Summary

From the original book jacket
Chatalia... a fantastic artificial world, inhabited by furry winged creatures with awesome powers. Here Kirk, Spock and their Enterprise mates, trapped, face terrifying death. And if by some miracle they escape, they will confront the roving killers of the Klingon Empire!
From the January 1985 reprint book jacket
Captain's log, stardate 7505.6. This is being recorded by Science Officer Spock, temporarily in command.
The Enterprise is currently in orbit around an alien "starship" (actually an artificial planetoid approximately 217.352 kilometers in diameter) of unknown origin, aboard which Captain Kirk and a landing party of four are stranded. They are currently detained in a prison cell, awaiting interrogation.
Far more immediate is the condition of the Enterprise. The ship has been 'snared' by wires apparently composed of the same material as the alien craft (a substance harder than any known to Federation science) – wires which are draining off our power reserves at an alarming rate. We appear to have the choice of remaining on board the Enterprise (and crashing to the surface of the planetoid once our power is gone), or joining the Captain inside the alien spacecraft. A fascinating dilemma.

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Chapter One

After Kirk records a log entry on the fact that the Enterprise is on a fairly unexciting trip, he joins Spock and Lt. Larousse in the officer's lounge, where they are engaged in a word game. Their reverie is interrupted as Uhura's voice is heard paging yellow alert. There is a constructed world ahead, made with fantastic technology. A team of over 20 science and engineering specialists are called to an emergency meeting regarding the discovery in the briefing room.

Chapter Two

The scientists create a summary of their findings of the Chatalian world, which is a hollow planetoid which spins to create its own artificial gravity, and operates on a Bussard ramscoop drive system.

Chapter Three

An encounter team of five personnel, Kirk, McCoy, Larousse, Wilson and Moore assemble and beam to the Chatalian "surface". After experiencing universal translator difficulties, they are taken prisoner, but remain in contact with the ship.

Chapter Four

The bridge crew considers the complexities of Chatalian society, as reported by the landing party. They disover the wreck of a hundred-year old Klingon ship on the surface, Sulu leads a spacewalk to investigate. The crew manages to transcribe a translation of the Klingon log, describing the honorable suicides of the Klingon crew.


Background Information

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Cover of 1985 reprint

  • The Bantam novel series have a plethora of different cover images, the English version of this novel has been released with four different covers, a new one for each subsequent printing. There have been three US printings by Bantam (February 1979, January 1985 and May 1993), and an overseas (UK, June 1995) edition from Titan Books.
  • This is one of a very few Star Trek novels featuring a page of illustrations, a diagram of the artificial world is drawn on page 6.
  • Author Joe Haldeman also wrote Planet of Judgment. World Without End is his second and final Star Trek novel.
  • Although Klingons were eventually portrayed (in TNG) as valuing honor and spirituality, and practicing ritual suicide, the depictions here of 22nd century Klingon priests and rituals are not quite identical.

Characters

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Reprint covers, by Sano (left) and Pearson (right)

Canon characters listed below are linked to the main article about them. Non-canon characters are not linked, but those that recurred, appearing or being mentioned in more than one story, are defined further in Bantam TOS characters.
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Spock.

James T. Kirk
Enterprise captain. Kirk leads the landing party to Chatalia.
Spock
Enterprise science officer and exec. Spock's science department is called up for extra duty considering the bizarre physics involved with a worldship such as Chatalia.
Leonard McCoy
Enterprise CMO. McCoy is the only mmber of the landing party to take a medication for dizziness when faced with the bizarre gravity inside Chatalia.
Martin Larousse
Starfleet lieutenant who plays word games with Spock in the officer's lounge. He later accompanies the team to the planetoid, and recognizes that the Chatalians apparently learned Klingonese from the Klingon crew.
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Scotty.

Montgomery Scott
Enterprise engineer.
Glak Sōn
Sciences division ensign from Anacontor, a mathematician by specialty. Typical for his species, Glak Sōn was hairy and short, he had paws rather than hands. Spock surmised that, chemically, only Glak Sōn's metabolism would be able to survive on Chatalian foodstuffs if the crew were to evacuate to Chatalia.
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Sulu.

Hikaru Sulu
Enterprise helmsman. Sulu recalled not having worn an spacesuit for almost two years as he prepared for a spacewalk. His team uses tractor boots to resist centrifugal force throwing them off spinning Chatalia, and examine the Klingon wreck.
B. "Tuck" Wilson
Enterprise lieutenant serving as security chief. It is unclear if this could be either of the crewman named Wilson seen in TOS. Technician Wilson served at the transporter, not as a guard. Another Crewman Wilson was seen as a guard, but in the mirror universe. He was mentioned to not be an officer in that universe, but it isn't clear if he existed in the regular milieu.
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Uhura.

Uhura
Enterprise communications officer. Uhura is referred to as a Bantu woman, however this premise doesn't survive past the Bantam novels. She is rarely ever described as Bantu except in the 1970s and early 1980s novels.
Moore
Enterprise security ensign. See Moore for a list of characters with the same name.
Kulain
Klingon captain.
Pavel Chekov, 2268

Chekov.

Pavel A. Chekov
Enterprise navigator.
Sydny
Enterprise lieutenant, a dark woman who was the resident expert on Klingon society. In Sulu's opinion, she was arrestingly beautiful.
Berry
Enterprise cartography ensign.
Jakobs
Enterprise crewman.
Amstel
Enterprise ensign, a chemist by specialty.
Gary
Enterprise lieutenant.
Masters
Enterprise ensign who was an expert in antique spacecraft. This might be a reference to Charlene Masters, although she was mentioned to be a lieutenant, not an ensign, in her TOS appearance.
W'Chaal
Fitzsimmons
Enterprise ensign, she sat in on the science briefing.
Karez
Kal
Park
Tinney

References

Anacontor
Antares
Deneb
Forty Families
Sector 3
The Enterprise was completing an uneventful survey of sector 3. See also: sectors
Starbase 3 (Starbase 3 at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works)
Enterprise was due to pick up new orders at Starbase 3. See also: Federation starbases.
uranium hexafluoride
Spock successfully renders this word in Larousse's word game, even adding an extra syllable to account for Larousse's mispronunciation of "fluoride".

Timeline

  • Mid-2150s: The Klingon vessel crashes on Chatalia.
  • Late-2260s: The Enterprise is waylaid by Chatalia's magnetic field.


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