Spock Must Die!

An exciting new story of interplanetary adventure!

Summary

 * From the original book jacket:
 * Captain Kirk and the crew of the starship Enterprise find themselves in the middle of an undeclared war waged by the Klingon Empire...


 * The Organians should be consulted about the war but their entire planet has disappeared – or been destroyed...


 * Mr. Spock entered the transporter chamber. His image would be flashed to Organia by the huge machine's faster-than-light tachyons. But the experiment failed. Suddenly there were two Mr. Spocks. One of them had to be destroyed...


 * BUT WHICH ONE?


 * From the April 1985 reprint book jacket:
 * "Captain's log, stardate 4181.4. We are at war with the Klingon Empire."


 * Launching an unprovoked attack upon the Federation, the Klingons have broken the terms of the Organian Peace Treaty – leaving the Enterprise stranded deep in uncharted space, cut off from the rest of the Federation fleet.


 * To find out what happened to the Organians, Commander Scott rigged an experimental modification of our transportation system designed to enable a tachyon replica of Mr. Spock to travel faster-than-light to Organia. But the experiment failed, and incredibly, left us with two identical Spocks: one of whom is a replica in every way the opposite of our first officer, a traitor whose continued existence poses a grave threat to the Enterprise and quite possibly the entire Federation.


 * One of the Spocks must die. But which one...

Background Information

 * This was the first original Trek novel published by Bantam Books. It was a sequel to, the original script by Gene L. Coon and the novelization by James Blish, author of the popular Star Trek 1 and continuing series of TOS novelizations.
 * The Bantam novel series have a plethora of different cover images: the English version of this novel has been released with at least three different covers, a new one for each subsequent printing. There have been three US cover printings by Bantam (,, and ). The 1990s edition cover is credited to artist Kazuhiko Sano.
 * "Spock must die" was a subliminal message suggested to Captain Kirk in the sixth story arc of the UK Star Trek comics.
 * The concept of transporter duplication was addressed in other canonical productions, and . "Second Chances", in particular, is a later occasion of the transporter being used to create an identical duplicate.
 * An editor at Bantam copyedited Kirk's reference to McCoy from "Bones" to "Doc", apparently being unfamiliar with the reference to McCoy's oft-used on-screen nickname. Author James Blish wrote a piece about the error in the introduction of a later novelization.

Characters

 * James T. Kirk : Enterprise captain.
 * Spock : Enterprise science officer and exec.
 * Leonard McCoy : Enterprise CMO.
 * Montgomery Scott : Enterprise engineer.
 * Uhura : Enterprise communications officer. She was considering spending a couple of weeks teaching a language to Lt. Purdy.
 * Hikaru Sulu : Enterprise helmsman.
 * Ayelborne : Organian.
 * Claymare : Organian.
 * Trefayne : Organian.
 * Purdy : Starfleet lieutenant stationed at Starbase 16, who wanted to be taught how to speak Eurish.

Timeline

 * 2267
 * 2268

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Spock muß sterben! Spock Must Die!