Spock Must Die!

1970 Cover
Captain Kirk and the crew of the starship Enterprise find themselves in the middle of an undeclared war waged by the Klingon Empire...

The Organians should be consulted about the war but their entire planet has disappeared - or been destroyed...

Mr. Spock entered the transporter chamber. His image would be flashed to Organia by the huge machines faster-than-light tachyons. But the experiment failed. Suddenly there were two Mr. Spocks. One of them had to be destroyed...

BUT WHICH ONE?

1985 Cover
Captain's Log, stardate 4181.4. We are at war with the Klingon Empire.

Launching an unprovoked attack upon the Federation, the Klingons have broken the terms of the Organian Peace Treaty -- leaving the Enterprise stranded deep in uncharted space, cut off from the rest of the Federation fleet.

To find out what happened to the Organians, Commander Scott rigged an experimental modification to our transportation system designed to enable a tachyon replica of Mr. Spock to travel faster-than-light to Organia. But the experiment failed, and incredibly, left us with two identical Spocks: one of whom is a replica in every way opposite of our first officer, a traitor whose continued existence poses a grave threat to the Enterprise and quite possibly the entire Federation.

One of the Spocks must die. But which one?

Main

 * James T. Kirk
 * Spock
 * Leonard H. McCoy
 * Montgomery Scott
 * Hikaru Sulu
 * Pavel Chekov
 * Nyota Uhura

Others

 * Ayelborne
 * Claymare
 * Koloth
 * Kor
 * Korax

Referenced

 * Joanna McCoy

Starships

 * USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) - Constitution-class
 * Klingon Star-class battleship Destruction

Locations

 * Bosklave
 * Earth
 * Caernarvon
 * Great Nebula Area of Orion
 * Organia

Species

 * Human
 * Klingon
 * Melkotian
 * Organian
 * Vulcan

States and Organizations

 * Klingon Empire
 * Grand Senate of the Klingon Empire
 * Organian Council of Elders
 * Starfleet
 * United Federation of Planets

Others
anorexia nervosa | bench-mark | bench-marking | chi-quare | chicken-and-quadrotriticale soup | chronon | coffee | Command Academy ring | corvette | Dalton recension | David | Dirac jump | Eurish | finis opus coronat | "Finnegan's Wake" | fluroscopy | "Fundamentals of Naval Engagement" | glow pups | Goliath |haggle | hand microphone | Hilbert space | Interdict | James Joyce | Korzybski | laburnum seed | Law of Parsimony | mathom | "Merchant of Venice" | new suns space | transporter

Information

 * Spock Must Die! is the first original Star Trek novel, although that claim is sometimes attributed to the slightly-more-aimed-at-children novel Mission to Horatius.

Related Stories

 * "Errand of Mercy" (TOS episode)