Wild Card

   

Wild Card is the third of six TOS stories by William Rotsler in the young adult anthology Star Trek II Short Stories. The stories depict events in 2277 during Captain Kirk's second five-year mission aboard the refurbished USS Enterprise. In this story, the crew were overcome by a contagious lifeform.

DescriptionEdit

In "Wild Card" an unknown enemy threatens the very existence of the Enterprise and its crew.

SummaryEdit

ReferencesEdit

CharactersEdit

Linda Chang • Pavel Chekov • Galloway • Glaser • James T. Kirk • Langhorne • Ryan Leslie • Leonard McCoy • Lex Nakashima • Montgomery Scott • Spock • Hikaru Sulu • Nyota Uhura

Referenced only 

Charles Darwin • Davis • Friedman • Charles Jackson • Merlino • Pearson • Alfred Wallace

Starships and vehiclesEdit

USS Enterprise (Constitution-class heavy cruiser)

Starship classifications

scout ship • shuttlecraft

LocationsEdit

Marris V

Referenced only 

Automate-66 • Axanar • Earth (Galápagos Islands • South America) • Milky Way Galaxy • Omicron Theta • Psi Nu Alpha/St. Sebastian • Rigel III

Shipboard locations

airlock • bridge • captain's quarters • crew quarters (Spock's) • sickbay • turbolift

Races and culturesEdit

Human (Russian) • Vulcan

Referenced only 

Rigellian

States and organizationsEdit

Federation • Sisters of the Sacred Heart • Starfleet • University of South Wales

Science and technologyEdit

blood analyzer unit • camera • chronometer • communicator • computer • coordinates • decontamination tube • diagnostic table • hatch • hypospray • intercom • laboratory • library computer • microscope • Morpheus-Nine • ocean • protection suit • phaser • robot • self destruct system • sonic shower • star • stomach • subwarp message • transporter • tricorder • ventilation system

Areas of studyEdit

biochemistry • botany • ecology • entomology • ethnology • evolution • parallel evolution • xenobiology • zoology

Materials and substancesEdit

blood • chitin • chocolate • crystal • lacrose • levfrum • metal • pylene • salt • strychnine • sugar • turpentine • vitamin

Ranks and titlesEdit

admiral • chief engineer • colonist • commander • lieutenant • lieutenant commander • midshipman • navigator • yeoman

Other referencesEdit

bacteria • bat • berry • binary star • cell • Cenozoic Era • colony • cow • dog • dorf • fish • flower • galaxy • headache • hour • insect • ion storm • logic • mammal • medieval • monastery • mutiny • The New England Journal of Medicine • orange dwarf • phytoplankton • plague • plant • quarantine • second • star • stun • trade route • Triacus pod wine • Ultra Purple code • ultraviolet ray • uniform • virus • Vulcan nerve pinch • Warp Stresses in Real Time • year • yellow star • zombie

AppendicesEdit

BackgroundEdit

• Nyota Uhura had the conn during one duty shift.
• Pavel Chekov had the conn near the end of the story. He was referred to as an assistant navigator, while Galloway was the ship's security chief.

Related storiesEdit

• TOS - Year Four comic: "Issue 3" – In 2269, the Enterprise crew were infected by the Ur, leaving Kirk and Chapel to be infected last.
• TOS comic: "Taking Shape" – In 2277, body-duplicating Manarkites replaced most of the crew of the Enterprise before they were caught.

ConnectionsEdit