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The Original Series
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Period B
 
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B.1
a - c
B.2
d
B.3
e - f
B.4
g - j
B.5
k - m
B.6
n - q
B.7
r - sp
B.8
st - sz
B.9
t - u
B.10
v - z
 
These period B titles (Kirk's five-year mission) are arranged in alphabetical order,
with sequels noted immediately after the initial book as well as alphabetically.
 
 
Select another time period.
 
 
  TOS period A   Events occurring prior to the Original Series tv episodes.  
  TOS period B   Kirk's original 5-year mission plus (up to his promotion to Admiral). 
             period B is ten pages long, with titles in alphabetical order
  TOS period C   The years Kirk is based on Earth during the Enterprise refit.  
  TOS period D   Kirk commands the Enterprise as an admiral. (the first four movies)  
  TOS period E   Events between movies "The Voyage Home" and "The Final Frontier".  
  TOS period F   Star Trek V through Kirk's "death" on the Enterprise-B and its aftermath.   
  TOS period G   The continuing adventures of Kirk and his crew in Picard's time.
 
 
 
 
 
The Original Series
period B
 
 
page 5 of  10    /    titles K - M
 
 
 
Kirk's original 5-year mission and beyond,
up to his promotion to Admiral and the three-year
refit of the Enterprise.
 
 
the titles in this period are in alphabetical order,
with series grouped together
 
 
 
 
  
 
 		  
 
Killing Time  

     Van Hise, Della 
               Pocket, 1985          TOS #24 

  
An altered timestream pits a drug addicted Ensign Kirk against an implacable Captain Spock. 
 
 		  
 
The Klingon Gambit 

     Vardeman, Robert E. 
               Pocket, 1981          TOS #3

  
The Enterprise must protect a fabulous archaeological discovery from marauding Klingons. 
 
 		  
 
The Kobayashi Maru 

     Ecklar, Julia 
               Pocket, 1989          TOS #47 

  
Kirk and several others examine their lives as they are stranded in a powerless shuttle which is losing life support. 
                                        see also: TOS period A 
 
 		  
 
 		  
 
 
Legacy 

     Friedman, Michael Jan 
               Pocket, 1991          TOS #56

  
The Enterprise must respond to a distress call, leaving Kirk and three others buried alive after an earthquake. 
                                        see also: TOS period A 
 
 		  
 
Memory Prime 

     Reeves-Stevens, Gar 
               Pocket, 1988          TOS #42 

  
Spock is accused of terrorism and murder. A sequel to the TV episode "The Lights of Zetar". 
 
 		  
 
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Mindshadow 

     Dillard, J.M. 
               Pocket, 1986          TOS #27 

  
Spock is brain damaged after a terrible fall. 
 
 		  
 
Mission to Horatius 

     Reynolds, Mack 
               Pocket, 1999

  
The "lost" Star Trek novel. Originally published in 1968, this story of the Enterprise searching for the senders of a distress signal is in some distress itself. The characters, the situations, and the actions of the crew are not what we have come to know as "Star Trek". It would have been better for all concerned if this story had remained lost. 
 
 		  
 
 
Mudd in your Eye 

     Oltion, Jerry 
               Pocket, 1997          TOS #81

  
Kirk has trouble believing conman Harry Mudd has peacefully settled a centuries old interplanetary war.
 
 		  
 
 
 		  
 
Mudd's Angels 

     Lawrence, A. J. 
               Bantam, 1978 

  
Novelization of the TV episodes chronicling Kirk's encounters with outrageous galactic conman Harry Mudd.
 
 		  
 
Mutiny on the Enterprise 

     Vardeman, Robert E. 
               Pocket, 1983          TOS #12 

  
A pacifist telepath "incites" Kirk's crew into a non-violent mutiny which could kill everyone on board the ship. 
 
 		  
 
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My Brother's Keeper, # 1:  Republic 

     Friedman, Michael Jan 
               Pocket, 1999

  
Forced to kill his best friend Gary Mitchell, the next day a heartsick Kirk relates to Spock how their friendship evolved at Starfleet Academy. A sequel to the TV episode "Where No Man Has Gone Before". 
                                        see also: TOS period A 
 
My Brother's Keeper, # 2: Constitution 

     Friedman, Michael Jan 
               Pocket, 1999

  
After conducting the funeral for Kelso, the crewman murdered by Mitchell, and being debriefed by Starfleet brass, Kirk recalls other disastrous incidents from his service on the Farragut and the Constitution. A sequel to the TV episode "Where No Man Has Gone Before". 
                                        see also: TOS period A 
 
My Brother's Keeper, # 3:  Enterprise 

     Friedman, Michael Jan 
               Pocket, 1999 

  
Arriving back on Earth with Mitchell's body, the memory of Gary's actions during an attempted Klingon takeover of the Enterprise helps Kirk decide what to tell his friend's parents about the way their son died. A sequel to the TV episode "Where No Man Has Gone Before". 
                                        see also: TOS period A 
 
 		  
 
 
 		  
 
My Enemy, My Ally 

     Duane, Diane 
               Pocket, 1984          TOS #18 
 

     sequel below:  
  

The Romulan Way 

     Duane, Diane 
               Pocket, 1987          TOS #35 

  
My Enemy...: 
A Romulan commander and her loyal crew defect to the Federation, hoping to stop the implementation of a Romulan plan to take over the galaxy using mind control power enhanced by the brain tissue of murdered Vulcans. 
 
 

Romulan Way: 
A Federation spy on Romulus is in danger of being discovered when McCoy is kidnapped and brought to Romulus for trial.
 
 		  
 
 
 
 
 
 
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