STAR TREK - ERRAND OF FURY - SACRIFICES OF WAR

POCKET BOOKS
A Division of Simon & Shuster, Inc

Written by Kevin Ryan
Based on the Star Trek episode "Errand of Mercy"
Written by Gene L. Coon

Copyright 2009 by CBS Studios Inc. All Rights Reserved.



In Sacrifices of War, the U.S.S. Enterprise is sent on a mission to a planet near Klingon space that has been enslaved by the Klingons in order for the native inhabitants to produce weapons for them. Later, Kirk and Spock get stranded on the planet Organia - when the Klingons arrive to enslave Kirk and Spock as well.

In this novelisation of the TV episode "Errand of Mercy" there are two stories in the book which are basically the same in tone for the book in that the crew of the Enterprise comes in support of occupied Klingon planets as the Enterprise encourage the local population with different results. This book is a more in depth novelisation than the James Blish adaptation from The Star Trek Reader I . There is also  more political involvement in Sacrifices of War with the President of the Federation and his staff as they prepare for war in this part of the galaxy between the Klingons and Earth.

Pancho
All people smile in the same language.

Doctor Who - Delta and the Bannermen

A TARGET BOOK

Written by Malcolm Kohll
based on the BBC television series by Malcolm Kohll
by arrangement with BBC Books, a division of BBC Enterprises Ltd

Novelisation copyright Malcolm Kohll, 1989
Original script copyright Malcom Kohll, 1987

The BBC producers of Delta and the Bannermen was
John Nathan-Turner.
The Director was Michael Ferguson
The role of the Doctor was played by Sylvester McCoy

At a space toll port, the Doctor and Mel win the Grand Prize from the toll port - which is being part of a Fifties tour to Disneyland on the Planet Earth. Delta, the last of the Chimeron, sneaks on board the tour trying to get away from the aggressive Bannermen who are chasing her. On the tour's way to Disneyland, they hit America's first space satellite and crash land at a resort in the middle of England as the Bannermen follow the tour group back to Earth.

I always felt it was just a little too unbelievable that Billy, the camp mechanic trying to fix the tour's disabled bus, would fall in love with Delta - and suddenly decide to turn himself into a Chimeron, especially with no thought that the process may kill him. It was very selfish of Billy taking the food of Delta's daughter from the little baby and eating it for himself. Despite Billy taking her food, Delta's daughter grows rapidly, which shows how alien her physiology is - and what a radical change Billy must be going through. Searching for Delta, the Bannermen are supposed to be deadly soldiers - but the Bannermen are hard for me to take too seriously with a staff of banners strapped to their backs. It is rare having Americans in the Doctor Who series, which was great to see for once, but the American agents tracking the missing satellite of course have no clue as to what is going on around them.

Pancho
All people smile in the same language.

Stargate - SG-1 - The Cost of Honor

Fandemonium Books

Written by Sally Malcolm

Copyright 2007 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Stargate SG-1's The Cost of Honor is the sequel to A Matter of Honor, which is a sequel to one of the Stargate SG-1 TV episodes "A Matter of Time" where an SG team was stranded on a planet at the edge of a black hole. Because of Jack's deceptive practices to rescue the stranded SG team, Jack and his team of SG-1 are sent as prisoners to an alien world whose people the Earth government is trying to have diplomatic relations with.

With Jack feeling extreme guilt for leaving an SG team stranded for years at the event horizon of a black hole, the usually dependable Colonel Jack O'Neill pays a high price for going to the extremes of rescuing the stranded team - with Major Samantha Carter paying the highest price of this decision by being placed in an Ancient torture machine by the unscrupulous alien head of state. We feel Jack's pain, as well as Carter's, as Jack seems to lose everything that is dear to him.

Pancho
All people smile in the same language.

Star Trek: Gateways - One Small Step

Pocket Books, A Division of Simon & Shuster, Inc.

Written by Susan Wright

Copyright 2001

In One Small Step, after defeating a hostile computer on an ancient Kalandan outpost, Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise search the Kalandan outpost to discover the technology that hurled the Enterprise a thousand light years away - when a race of aliens arrive claiming to be the Kalandans and want their station back.

The first of a seven book series about the mysterious Gateways, this continuation of the television episode That Which Survives is believable only as a continuation. I often wondered what happens immediately after the episodes and this book fits the bill. However, the aliens claiming to be the Kalandans are difficult to believe as Kalandans because an incredible amount of time has elapsed since the outpost was lost and the aliens seems to have made little technological improvements made in the intervening time. At least, it should have been difficult for the crew of the Enterprise to believe, especially Spock and Scotty.

Pancho
All people smile in the same language.