In Vino Veritas was the second of 11 TOS stories produced by Peter Pan Records. It was initially released in 1975 as an audio production along with two other stories. It was the second of seven stories set during Captain James T. Kirk’s first five-year mission aboard the USS Enterprise and the first of five without an associated comic book.
Description[]
- Ad for the LP record
- The crew of the Enterprise in a trio of exciting adventures on a long-playing 33 1/3 RPM disc! You'll be on the edge of your seat for the "Passage to Moauv," weep for "The Crier in Emptiness," and drink in "In Vino Veritas"! High-quality recordings, with no "warp factor"!
Summary[]
- Captain's log, stardate 5442.8 : First officer Spock and I have been directed to act as Federation representatives to discuss conflicting claims to the metal-rich uninhabited world of Star WWB7. We are proceeding on course to the neutral world of Pomplance to meet with Ambassador Koft of the Klingon Empire and Envoy Bendes of the Romulan Sphere.
Beaming down, Captain James T. Kirk and Commander Spock are escorted by Pomplancian representative Amilon to the conference chamber. After introductions are made, Bendes pours glasses of wine for the delegates, having checked previously that the vintage is palatable to everyone, and they share a toast.
As talks begin about mining rights, the convocation quickly goes off the rails as Koft and Bendes admit neither has verifiable proof of their claims. Kirk cites the Federation's rights under the Treaty of Malb, but then confesses that the authority of the treaty itself is doubtful. As all realize they're speaking unvarnished truth, Spock recognizes neutral observer Jack Sprat — he is the notoriously well-meaning but jinxed inventor Coriolanus Quince. Quince reveals he's spiked their wine with a truth drug.
Bendes says such a drug would collapse civilization throughout the galaxy. Koft moves to postpone the conference, then convenes a new meeting to agree on how to execute Quince. But Kirk insists that as a Federation citizen he should be tried in the Federation. Quince is placed in the brig aboard the USS Enterprise, but Spock sees that the truth drug's effects have already worn off. Besides disrupting the conference, Quince has caused no harm, and he insists this is not the last they've heard of him.
References[]
Characters[]
- Amilon • Bendes • James T. Kirk • Koft • K'Tail • John Kyle • Leonard McCoy • Montgomery Scott • Coriolanus Quince/Jack Sprat • Rhuox • Spock • Hikaru Sulu • Nyota Uhura
Starships and vehicles[]
- USS Enterprise (Constitution-class heavy cruiser)
- Referenced only
- IKV Avenger (D7-class Klingon battlecruiser)
Locations[]
- Pomplance (Pomplancian Off Planet Mission) • the galaxy
- Referenced only
- Demostonies IV • Quatar • Romula • WWB7
Races and cultures[]
States and organizations[]
- Federation • Klingon Empire • Pomplancian Bureau of Interstellar Affairs • Romulan Empire • Starfleet
Science and classification[]
- alcohol • antidote • drug • engine • mining • poison • sector • serum • transporter • truth serum • turbolift
Occupations and titles[]
- ambassador • captain • chief • envoy • first officer • inventor • lieutenant • mister • observer • officer • prospector • representative • subaltern
Other references[]
- beverage • business • bridge • brig • captain's log • colony • corridor • credential • crop • desert • diplomacy • execution • Federation Starfleet ranks (2260s) • gelatin • government • grain • Great Mother of the Egg • Haggis • Imperial charter • law • minute • nobility • pilot • polymerization • Pomplance conference • planet • sector • sickbay • species • telepathy • transporter room • Treaty of Malb • war • water • wine • year
Appendices[]
Background[]
- In vino veritas was a Latin proverb cited by Roman author Pliny the Elder. (In Vino Veritas article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.)
- Polywater, a substance that also exposed truths and feelings, was featured in TOS episode: "The Naked Time" and TNG episode: "The Naked Now".
- “Truth” was often incorporated into licensed Star Trek story titles with comic books such as "The Final Truth", "An Inconvenient Truth", "Truth or Treachery", and "The Truth Elusive", the novel Unspoken Truth, and short stories such as "The Naked Truth" and "Stone Cold Truths".
- Based on the stardate, author Alan Dean Foster set this story shortly after "Passage to Moauv", the previous audio story.
- Chaos-creating Coriolanus Quince used the alias “Jack Sprat” to get into the conference, much as Harry Mudd used the alias of Leo Walsh when he first boarded the Enterprise.
- While the landing party was on Pomplance and Scott manned the transporter room, Hikaru Sulu was in command on the bridge.
- The Romulan Star Empire was referred to in this story as the Romulan Sphere, Romula and Romulan Hegemony.
- Kirk ordered Nyota Uhura to contact sickbay and was present on the bridge in this story, but her voice was not heard.
Images[]
Connections[]
Timeline[]
| published order | ||
|---|---|---|
| Previous story: Passage to Moauv |
Peter Pan Records | Next story: The Crier in Emptiness |
| Previous story: Passage to Moauv |
Stories by: Alan Dean Foster |
Next story: The Crier in Emptiness |
| chronological order | ||
| Previous adventure: Passage to Moauv |
Memory Beta Chronology | Next adventure: The Crier in Emptiness |
| Previous story: Passage to Moauv |
Voyages of the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), Year Five | Next story: The Crier in Emptiness |
Production history[]
- In Vino Veritas was initially released in 1975 on Peter Pan TOS record #1 of 23, a 33-rpm LP, along with TOS audiobooks: Passage to Moauv, The Crier in Emptiness.
- It was the first audio production re-released as a solo story. It was on a 33-rpm 7" "Little LP" with a price of 79 cents.
- Subsequent re-releases in 1979 were packaged with imagery from TOS movie: The Motion Picture. The audio appeared on records #11, 16 and 23.
External links[]
- In Vino Veritas article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.