CHRONOLOGY / SYNOPSIS 
 
The Original Series
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Period D
 
 
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  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 D
 
 
 
the first four movies:
 
Kirk commands the Enterprise as an admiral.
 
Spock dies saving the Enterprise from the deranged Khan.
 
Spock's friends mutiny against Starfleet and
destroy the Enterprise in an attempt to retrieve his body.
 
 Kirk and his officers time travel to 1984 San Francisco
to save Earth from a destructive probe.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Star Trek : The Motion Picture 

     Roddenberry, Gene 
               Pocket, 1979          TOS #1 

 
Novelization of the movie. Admiral Kirk seizes the opportunity to command the refitted Enterprise when a strange phenomenon threatens the galaxy. 
 
 
 
 
The Pandora Principle 

     Clowes, Carolyn 
               Pocket, 1990          TOS #49

 
Spock leads a team of reluctant Vulcans to save a group of half-Vulcan/half-Romulan children from a brutal existence on the planet Hellguard.. 
                                        see also: TOS period D2
 
 
 
 
Enemy Unseen 

     Mitchell, V. E. 
               Pocket, 1990          TOS #51 

 
More bad luck transporting diplomats – one ambassador gives Kirk three of this wives, the wife of another wants to resume an old romance, and someone is assassinating the passengers.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Home is the Hunter 

     Kramer-Rolls, Dana 
               Pocket, 1990          TOS #52

 
A malevolent alien sends Sulu, Chekov and Scott back in time to the ancient pasts of their birth countries. 
 
 
 
 
The Prometheus Design 

     Marshak, Sondra & Myrna Culbreath 
               Pocket, 1982          TOS #5 

 
Kirk is removed from command of the Enterprise after a brutal encounter with alien experimenters affects his mental and physical fitness. 
 
 
 
 
Covenant of the Crown 

     Weinstein, Howard 
               Pocket, 1981          TOS #4 

 
Kirk returns to the war torn planet of Shad to help the beautiful young heir to the throne prove that she is fit to rule.
                                        see also: TOS period A 
 
 
 
 
Firestorm 

     Graf, L. A. 
               Pocket, 1994          TOS #68 

 
The galaxy's largest volcano could put a fiery end to a fierce dispute between Elasian miners and Federation geologists. A sequel to the TV episode "Elaan of Troyius". 
 
 
 
 
 
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Rules of Engagement 

     Morwood, Peter 
               Pocket, 1990          TOS #48 

 
The Enterprise comes under fire from a Klingon warship as it tries to evacuate Federation personnel from a war torn planet. 
 
 
 
 
Deep Domain 

     Weinstein, Howard 
               Pocket, 1987          TOS #33 

 
The Enterprise crew is caught in the middle when an archaeological dig on a Federation world uncovers a secret the government wants to remain hidden at all costs.
 
 
 
 
Time for Yesterday 

     Crispin, A.C. 
               Pocket, 1988          TOS #39 

sequel to: 
Yesterday's Son (TOS period B

 
Some 15 years after leaving Spock's son Zar in Sarpeidon's past, Kirk, Spock and McCoy return to enlist his help in saving the galaxy from the out of control Guardian of Forever. 
 
 
 
 
The Pandora Principle 

     Clowes, Carolyn 
               Pocket, 1990          TOS #49

 
Saavik's troubled past may be the key to saving the Federation from a Romulan invasion. 
                                        see also: TOS period D1
 
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
Strangers from the Sky 

     Bonanno, Margaret Wander 
               Pocket, 1987

 
A best-selling book about the purported first encounter between Terrans and Vulcans provokes bizarre reactions from both Kirk and Spock. 
                                        see also: TOS period A1, A2 
 
 
 
 
Ship of the Line 

     Carey, Diane 
               Pocket, 1997 

A "Next Generation" crossover novel 

 
Kirk gives Capt. Morgan Bateman and his ship, the Bozeman, an assignment which ultimately traps them in a temporal loop, from which they are rescued some eighty years later by Picard and the Enterprise-D. 
                                       see also: TOS period G 
 
 
 
 
Dwellers in the Crucible 

     Bonanno, Margaret Wander 
               Pocket, 1985          TOS #25 

 
Sulu goes undercover in the Klingon and Romulan empires to try and rescue a group of kidnapped diplomats. 
 
 
 
 
 
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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan  

     McIntyre, Vonda N. 
               Pocket, 1982          TOS #7

 
Novelization of the movie. Eugenic superman Khan Noonian Singh returns to avenge his wife's death by destroying Kirk. A sequel to the TV episode "Space Seed". 
 
 
 
 
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock 

     McIntyre, Vonda N. 
               Pocket, 1984          TOS #17

 
Novelization of the movie. Kirk and his command crew commit treason to try and recover Spock's body from the Genesis planet and save McCoy's life. 
 
 
 
 
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home 

     McIntyre, Vonda N. 
               Pocket, 1986 

 
Novelization of the movie. Returning to Starfleet headquarters to face court martial on the treason charges, Kirk and company determine that only a time trip to the 20th century can prevent the destruction of Earth. 
                                        see also: TOS period A
 
 
 
 
 
 

     



 
 
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