Rescue at Raylo

Rescue at Raylo was a Star Trek: The Original Series coloring book. It was one of three softcover books containing stories published in 1978 by Whitman Publishing, the publisher of Gold Key Comics. It was reprinted by Merrigold Press in 1979.

In this story, the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) visited the planet Raylo.

Summary
As James T. Kirk and Spock were exploring Raylo, tiny rocket drones emerged from a cave and incapacitated them. Spock awoke a few minutes later and asked Leonard McCoy to beam down. McCoy gave Kirk a hypo shot, but he awoke hypnotized. Spock and McCoy followed Kirk through the cave into a room full of diminutive Mortards. Kirk climbed into a stasis chamber that began to drain his electrical energy.

Spock and McCoy discovered five other prisoners, then Mortards brought them to Doctor Rycho. Rycho jammed Spock's communicator, blocking contact with Nyota Uhura and Montgomery Scott. When the Mortards ushered Spock and McCoy toward prison cells, Spock hit one of them, revealing it to be a robot. Rycho explained that his robots were powered by electricity from captured aliens. He then threw knock-out powder at Spock and McCoy, rendering both unconscious.

After Spock awoke, he theorized that the stasis devices could be disrupted with communicators. When Kirk answered Spock's hail, the equipment shorted out and Kirk broke out of the chamber. He freed other captives, including a rescue team led by Doctor. Burton revived McCoy with a hypo. Kirk told Uhura that he was bringing Rycho and the rescue team back aboard the Enterprise.

Characters

 * • James T. Kirk • Leonard McCoy • Mortards • Spock • Rycho • Montgomery Scott • Nyota Uhura • unnamed Starfleet personnel (rescue team)

Starships and vehicles

 * USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) ( heavy cruiser)

Locations

 * Raylo

Races and cultures

 * Human • Vulcan

Science and technology

 * communicator • computer • hypospray • medikit • robot • rocket drone • stasis chamber • transporter • viewscreen

Ranks and titles

 * doctor • Federation Starfleet ranks (2260s)

Other references

 * Story references
 * cave • electrical energy • knock-out powder • orchid • staff • Starfleet uniform • Starfleet uniform (2265-2270)


 * Crosswords and game references
 * asteroid • bridge • cargo • code • comet • craft • crew • deflector • Earth • galaxy • gravity • helm • Jupiter • light year • Mars • Mercury • meteor • moon • Neptune • orbit • phaser • planet • Pluto • Saturn • spacesuit • star • tractor beam • tricorder • universe • Uranus • Venus

Background

 * The publication contained 12 pages of crosswords, games, and other pages to color.
 * The front cover included a code at the top right, either 1250-4 or 1261-49¢.
 * The back cover reprinted the front cover illustration without any text.
 * and his team wore a variation of the Starfleet uniform with a folded collar and belts. Their assignment patches seemed to be those of the Enterprise.
 * "R2D2" was visible on a printout from Rycho's computer on page 27.
 * A caption on page 28 identified Spock as "Doctor Spock".