by Sondra Marshak & Myrna Culbreath I knew it was gonna be bad.  But I didn’t know it was gonna be this bad. I read the two “Phoenix” books out of publishing order and saved them for the last of the Bantam books because I recalled that they took place one right after the other and I didn’t like them.  I remember reading these books as a teen and thinking I just wasn’t knowledgeable enough to understand. I thought since I’d never read philosophy or […]

by Kathleen Sky, author of “Vulcan!” “Colonel Schaeffer…slid down the side of her craft and removed her helmet.  She turned to face the three officers, and Kirk felt a wave of panic strike him.  It was as though her very appearance was a physical blow.  Elizabeth Schaeffer was easily the most beautiful woman James Kirk had ever seen in his life.  She stood as tall as he was, her body slender and delicately made.  Her complexion was the delicate pink of angelskin coral, and even […]

If Gene Roddenberry is The Great Bird of the Galaxy and Majel Barrett the First Lady of Star Trek, then David Gerrold is  Star Trek’s Nanny.  He nurtured it, disciplined it, educated it—encouraged it to be the best it could be.  David Gerrold has done nearly as much for the franchise as Roddenberry—it could be argued that he has done more. He wrote for The Original Series, The Animated Series, and The Next Generation.  He was involved in Star Trek: Phase II, a proposed TV […]

by Jack C. Haldeman II “You lived, Kirk.  My brother died.  There is the difference.  You will pay for that difference, pay dearly.  Not now, maybe not tomorrow, but someday.  Someday, when you least expect it, I will kill you.  Slowly, painfully.  It will give me great pleasure.  I have sworn the oath of blood upon our father’s grave. ” Long ago, Captain Kirk killed the Klingon Khall, Commander Korol’s brother, in hand-to hand combat.  Probably on Kardashia. Korol swears revenge and follows the Enterprise […]