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Vulcan!

Below are two terrible excerpts from the 1978 novel Vulcans!


(McCoy is helping the Vulcan-phobic specialist who’s already leashed out at Spock unpack) …McCoy could have felt himself completely at ease with the woman, and very attracted. In fact, a whole lot attracted.


As he unpacked a drawer full of soft, sheer night-robes, McCoy felt that he had to know more about her phobia. The transparent garments, scented with lavender, were telling him a great deal about her romantic nature, and he wanted to know what sort of mental mine field he might have to walk through on the way to seeing her model those delicious bits of silk and lace. Spock and Vulcans were no competition for a pretty woman, nightgowns, and a bedroom.


“Tell me Katalya,” he said, tucking the last of the negligees away, “just why do you hate Vulcans so much? It’s a s ad flaw in a lady as nice as you are. It’s a downright pity too.”



McCoy joined her on the fur-covered bed. He reached his arm around her unprotesting shoulder and pulled her closer. “I generally like to see what makes a lady tick before I start wanting to play doctor with her mind or body-and I mean in that in the nonmedical sense.”


McCoy grinned at her, waiting to see what she might say to his rather bold proposition. She was new to the ship and he knew that as soon as the rest of the crew got a look at her, the offered would be coming thick and fast. It was better to be a little too hasty about this sort of thing than to run the risk of some fellow officer grabbing her up from under his eyes. Hid did hope she had no major hangups in the sexual area; it would be a waste of very good material if she did.


“What? You’re going to forgive me for being prejudiced against Vulcans so quickly?” She tilted her head to look up at him. “You must have a very flexible mind, Doctor.”

“No, just a well-compartmented one. I don’t like the way you act about Vulcans, but I don’t see anything about you as a woman to object to-or is there something I don’t know?”

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Spock: Messiah!

This novel was the second original full length novel to be published after the series, (after Spock Must Die!) published in 1976 by Bantam Books (and republished 1977, 1984, 1994)

The writing is flawed at best, downright insulting at worst. Basically they’re doing a cultural survey of a medieval society using an experimental form of neural link, collected by newcomer ensign george. She’s collected over 200 samples of these links and best matched them to the crew who’ll be doing the survey mission. But Ensign George is a woman invested in her work, methodical and with a secret crush on Spock. She spies the neural pattern of a belly dancer (their doppelgangers are called dops) and she decides to go with it, someone completely opposite of her and bam. Now she’s exuding sexuality as well as other things. Under the influence of this dop she decides to do the same with Spock and match him with someone with a high libido. Except this dop she’s chosen is also highly paranoid, meglomaniac, delusions of grandeur and a…yep messiah complex. We don’t know any of this at first of course, only that Spock stole some precious dilithium (trilithium actually ) crystals from the Enterprise, they can’t warp out and a radiation storm will render her uninhabitable in a little over a week. Kirk, McCoy, Chekov and Scotty will try many times to rescue Spock from this new personality whose set himself as a holy leader and with intents of cleansing the planet - with logical precision. 

Below are some *choice* diaogue excerpts (some funny, some grating)

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Chekov, a miserable expression on his face, was braced against the control console, his Kyrosian shorts down around his ankles. McCoy finished applying an antiseptic spray to one bare buttock, then sprayed a layer of flesh-colored foam that hardened to a thin, flexible sheet. (…) “What happened to you?” Kirk demanded with a grin. Chekov pulled up his shorts and turned so that Kirk could see a jagged tear in their seat. “Damn (pack animal) bit me, sir.”

Spock, Messiah!

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(Kirk) was dressed in the uniform of a Kyrosian sea captain from the western islands: knee-length white shorts, sandals, and a vest-like upper garment with a short cape attached to the shoulders. The vest was held shut by a heavy gold chain with a dark blue stone, the symbol of his ran, dangling from a fob. At his waist was a soft, animal-skin puch containing money in the form of triangularly-cut gold coins. Also at his waist was a heavy club.

Spock, Messiah! 

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