In the Maze

"In the Maze" was the fourth short story collected in the TOS anthology The New Voyages 2 in 1978. It was written by Jennifer Guttridge, who also wrote "The Winged Dreamers".

Description[]

The excellence of certain Star Trek fanzine publications can be seen in stories like "In the Maze" — published here essentially as it appeared in "T-Negative"...

Summary[]

Enterprise personnel become the guinea pigs of an extradimensional scientist.

References[]

Races and cultures[]

unnamed races and cultures (native species, scientist's species) • Human (Arab • Red-Indian) • Vulcan

States and organizations[]

Starfleet

Science and classification[]

communicator • hypospray • intercom • knife • laboratory • medikit • medscanner • phaser • probe • scalpel • sensor • transporter • tricorder • turbolift

Ranks and titles[]

captain • doctor • first officer • officer • physician • scientist • security guard • sheik

Other references[]

agriculture • animal • blood • brain • communication • concrete • coordinates • dimension • emotion • feudalism • foam-bandage • grass • hour • landing party • language • lifeform • log entry • logic • minute • moss • orbit • plant • pneumonia • rat • silver • slime-devil • stone • telepathy • tentacle • time • transporter room • trouser • tunic • universe • war • warp factor (warp two) • water • year

Appendices[]

Related media[]

TOS novella: Giant in the Universe – Kirk, Spock, McCoy and Montgomery Scott were trapped with giant rats in a laboratory in 2266.
TOS - New Visions comic: "A Scent of Ghosts" – Other-dimensional beings in colonizer ships sought a new universe to call home.
TOS - New Visions comic: "An Unexpected Yesterday" – Sub-dimensional beings created a portal on Earth in the early 21st century.
TOS - Plot-Your-Own Adventure Stories novella: Distress Call! – Enterprise landing parties explored the mazelike Vardan buildings in 2277.

Background[]

An earlier draft of the story appeared in the fanzine "T-Negative" #23 in 1974.
Apparently the extra-dimensional scientist was not able to return the bodies of the crewmen killed by a tentacle monster. Twelve people beamed down, but James T. Kirk only beamed up ten.

Connections[]

Star Trek: The Original Series collected short stories, novellas and short novels
The New Voyages	The New Voyages ("Ni Var" • "Intersection Point" • "The Enchanted Pool" • "Visit to a Weird Planet Revisited" • "The Face on the Barroom Floor" • "The Hunting" • "The Winged Dreamers" • "Mind-Sifter" • "Sonnet from the Vulcan: Omicron Ceti Three") • The New Voyages 2 ("Surprise!" • "Snake Pit!" • "The Patient Parasites" • "In the Maze" • "Cave-In" • "Marginal Existence" • "The Procrustean Petard" • "The Sleeping God" • "Elegy for Charlie" • "Soliloquy")
Star Trek II & III Short Stories	Star Trek II Short Stories ("The Blaze of Glory" • "Under Twin Moons" • "Wild Card" • "The Secret Empire" • "Intelligence Test" • "To Wherever") • Star Trek III Short Stories ("The Azphari Enigma" • "The Jungles of Memory" • "A Vulcan, A Klingon, and an Angel" • "World's End" • "As Old as Forever")
Strange New Worlds	I ("A Private Anecdote" • "The Lights in the Sky" • "The Last Tribble" • "Reflections") • II ("Triptych" • "The Quick and the Dead" • "The First Law of Metaphysics" • "The Hero of My Own Life" • "Doctors Three") • III ("If I Lose Thee..." • "The Aliens Are Coming!" • "Family Matters") • IV ("A Little More Action" • "Prodigal Father" • "Missed" • "Tears for Eternity" • "Countdown" • "First Star I See Tonight" • "Scotty's Song" • "The Name of the Cat") • V ("Disappearance on 21st Street" • "The Trouble with Borg Tribbles" • "Legal Action" • "Yeoman Figgs" • "The Shoulders of Giants") • VI ("Bum Radish: Five Spins on a Turquoise Reindeer" • "One Last Adventure" • "Whales Weep Not" • "A Piece of the Pie" • "Marking Time" • "Ancient History") • VII ("A Test of Character" • "Indomitable" • "Project Blue Book" • "The Trouble With Tribals" • "All Fall Down" • "A Sucker Born" • "Obligations Discharged") • 8 ("Shanghaied" • "Assignment: One" • "Demon" • "Don't Call Me Tiny") • 9 ("Gone Native" • "A Bad Day for Koloth" • "Book of Fulfillment" • "The Smallest Choices") • 10 ("The Smell of Dead Roses" • "The Doomsday Gambit" • "Empty") • 2016 ("Dilithium Is a Girl's Best Friend")
Constellations	"First, Do No Harm" • "The Landing Party" • "Official Record" • "Fracture" • "Chaotic Response" • "As Others See Us" • "See No Evil" • "The Leader" • "Ambition" • "Devices and Desires" • "Where Everybody Knows Your Name" • "Make-Believe"
Star Trek: Explorer	"All That Most Maddens and Torments" • "The Way to Exile" • "Cumulative Damage" • "Explorers of the Storm" • "The Guardian" • "The Trouble with Jones" • "Sundering" • "A Dish Served Cold" • "Forewarned and Three-Armed" • "Working Miracles"
Misc. short stories	"Though Hell Should Bar the Way" • "Conflicting Natures" • "The Avenger" • "Night Whispers" • "Just Another Little Training Cruise" • "Safe Harbors" • "Ill Winds" • "The Greater Good"
Misc. novellas & short novels	"The Business, As Usual, During Altercations" • "The Badlands, Part I" • "One Giant Leap" • "The First Artifact" • "The Sorrows of Empire" • "A Less Perfect Union" • "The Chimes at Midnight"

Timeline[]

published order
Previous story: The Patient Parasites	Star Trek: The New Voyages 2	Next story: Cave-In
Previous story: The Winged Dreamers	Stories by: Jennifer Guttridge	Next story: last story
chronological order
Previous Adventure: Demand of Honor	Memory Beta Chronology	Next Adventure: Turnabout Intruder
Previous Adventure: To Reign in Hell: The Exile of Khan Noonien Singh Chapters 16-18	Pocket	Next Adventure: Faces of Fire

Publication history[]

January 1978: First published by Bantam Books. (ISBN 0-553-11392-5)
February 2000: 13th printing by Bantam Spectra. (ISBN 0-553-27933-5)

Translations[]

1983: Japanese : 迷路の中で, translated by Hiroshi Saito. (Hayakawa Bunko)

External link[]

In the Maze article at Fanlore.

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