The Covenant of the Crown
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| Author(s): | Howard Weinstein |
| Publisher: | Pocket Books |
| Series: | Pocket TOS #4 Titan Books #23 |
| Published: | August 1981 |
| Pages: | 191 |
| Stardate: | 7815.3 (2258, 2276) |
| Reference: | ISBN 0671833073 |
Will the Klingons rule at last?
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[edit] Summary
- From the book jacket
- An Enterprise shuttle is forced to crash-land in a violent storm on the barren planet Sigma 1212. Spock, McCoy and Kailyn, the beautiful heir to the Shaddan throne, survive in the near disaster.
- Pursued by primitive hunters and a band of Klingon scouts, they must reach the mountain where the fabulous dynastic crown is hidden. With the help of Spock and McCoy, and her own fantastic mental powers, Kailyn must prove that she alone is the true heir to the throne.
- Should they fail, they will open the door for Klingon takeover of the whole quadrant.
- Excerpts of copyrighted sources are included for review purposes only, without any intention of infringement.
[edit] Background Information
- This is the first written Star Trek novel to take place after Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
- Features an introduction by David Gerrold.
- Guest character Kailyn is diagnosed with choriocytosis, the same disease which nearly killed Spock. (TAS: "The Pirates of Orion") Both instances of the diseases were written by author Howard Weinstein.
- The flashback sequence establishes that James T. Kirk served aboard the USS Normandy as a lieutenant commander. This would place the flashback after his time on the USS Farragut and his run in with the dikironium cloud creature, where he was only a lieutenant. (TOS: "Obsession")
[edit] Characters
- James T. Kirk
- Captain.
- Spock
- Science Officer
- Leonard McCoy
- CMO
- Uhura
- Hikaru Sulu
- Pavel Chekov
- Christine Chapel
- Paul Harrington
- Admiral.
- Kailyn
- Heir to the Shaddan throne.
[edit] References
Enterprise, USS; Federation; Klingon; Organians; Treaty of Organia
- Galileo
- Shuttlecraft.
- Presumably a previously unseen TMP era incarnation of the shuttle.
- IKS Nightwing
- Klingon battle cruiser commanded by Captain Kaidin.
- USS Normandy
- Federation starship, assignment of Lieutenant Commander James T. Kirk.
- Quadrant J-221
- Shad
- Planet.
- Sigma 1212
- Fourth planet in the Sigma system. Sixty-two percent of the planet's land-mass is too cold for human habitation.
- Zenna Four
- Planet.
[edit] Chronology
- 2258
- Lieutenant Commander James T. Kirk visits Shad while serving aboard the USS Normandy.
- 2276
- The events of this novel.
[edit] External links
- The Covenant of the Crown at Wikipedia
- The Covenant of the Crown at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
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