Author(s):	Vonda N. McIntyre Story by Steve Meerson, Peter Krikes, Harve Bennett & Nicholas Meyer
Publisher:	Pocket Books
Series:	Pocket TOS
Published:	December 1986
Pages:	274
Stardate:	Unknown (2286 / 1986)
Reference(s):	ISBN 0671632663
Audiobook
Narrator:	Leonard Nimoy and George Takei
Publisher:	Simon and Schuster Audioworks
Published:	15 September 1987
Reference(s):	ISBN 067164629X

Based on Paramount Pictures' supreme space adventure!

Contents 1 Background Information 2 Characters 2.1 Main 2.2 Other 3 References 4 External link

Background InformationEdit

• Novelization of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home by Vonda N. McIntyre.
• When considering a possible time travel, Kirk recounts the tragic events leading to Edith Keeler's death in TOS: "The City on the Edge of Forever" to McCoy. He laments that he could've saved Edith's life and bring her with him to the 23rd century, without hurting the timeline.
• Gillian Taylor comes to greatly like the transporter as a way of travel, and is surprised to find out Doctor McCoy's fear and distrust of it.
• The scene of Hikaru Sulu and his great-grandfather (scripted, but not filmed) is present in the novel.
• The UK edition was from Grafton Books.

CharactersEdit

For characters that have been mentioned in canon, please reference their main article linked through their name.

MainEdit

James T. Kirk

Spock

Leonard McCoy

Montgomery Scott

Uhura

Hikaru Sulu

Pavel Chekov

OtherEdit

ReferencesEdit

External link Edit

• Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works

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