Category Archives: Pocket Books

Enterprise: The First Adventure

This is the cover to Enterprise: The First AdventureAuthor:  Vonda N. McIntyre

Published:  September 1986

Publisher:  Pocket Books

Number in Series:  1st Large Novel

Timeframe:  2265, before the episode “Where No Man Has Gone Before.”
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From Simon & Schuster:

“James T. Kirk is the youngest man to be promoted to the rank of captain in Federation history. His crew consists of a first officer who finds him impetuous; a chief engineer who finds him arrogent; a chief medical officer who finds him trifling; and a helmsman who wants a transfer.  But the young crew, which would later become the legendary space explorers, quickly puts aside their differences when a monstrous starship appears on their nascent flight path.”

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The Wounded Sky

Star Trek Novels, Star Trek books, Star TrekAuthor:  Diane Duane

Published:  December 1983

Publisher:  Pocket Books

Number in Series:  13

Timeframe:  2268, during the first 5-year mission and after The Klingon Gambit

From Simon & Schuster:

“An alien scientist invents the Intergalactic Inversion Drive, an engine system that transcends warp drive — and the U.S.S Enterprise™ will be the first to test it! The Klingons attempt to thwart the test, but a greater danger looms when strange symptoms surface among the crew — and time becomes meaningless.
Now Captain Kirk and his friends face their greatest challenge — to repair the fabric of the Universe before time is lost forever!”

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The Entropy Effect

The cover of the book The Entropy EffectAuthor:  Vonda N. McIntyre

Published:  1981

Publisher:  Pocket Books

Number in Series:  2

Timeframe:  2268, between “The Paradise Syndrome” and “The Enterprise Incident”

 

From Simon & Schuster:

“The U.S.S. Enterprise is summoned to transport a dangerous criminal from Starbase prison to a rehabilitation center, the brilliant physicist Dr. Georges Mordreaux, accused of promising to send people back in time, and then killing them instead.

But there’s more at stake than just a few lives. For Mordreaux’s experiments have somehow thrown the entire universe into a deadly time warp. All of existence is closing in on itself, and only Spock can stop the Entropy Effect.”

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Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Cover of the book Star Trek the Motion PictureAuthor:  Gene Roddenberry

Published:  1979

Publisher:  Pocket Books

Number in Series:  1

Timeframe:  2273, 2 1/2 years after the end of The Original Series

From Simon & Schuster:

“THE GREAT BIRD OF THE GALAXY WRITES A STAR TREK NOVEL!
The writer-producer who created Mr. Spock and all the other Star Trek characters — who invented the Starship Enterprise, who gave the show its look, its ideals — puts it all together again here in his first Star Trek novel!
Their historic five-year mission is over. Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Scotty all the crew have scattered to other jobs or other lives. Now, they are back together again on a fabulously refitted U.S.S. Enterprise as an incredibly destructive POWER threatens earth and the human race.”

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