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The epic novel of first contact between man and Vulcan!

Summary

Strangers from the Sky is a 1987 book by author Margaret Wander Bonanno detailing the first contact between Humans and Vulcans.

From the book jacket
James Kirk didn't normally pay much attention to this thing – a best-selling book, and a controversial one at that. But Strangers From the Sky had piqued his interest – and everyone else's, it seemed. For the book disputed a fact well know to every Federation schoolboy: That Earth's first encounter with alien life had occurred when the UNSS Icarus came upon the humanoid people of Alpha Centauri in 2048.
Strangers claimed that history was wrong... that humanity's first contact with another sapient species had taken place years earlier. And that when the two races met, something happened. Something so climactic, so dangerous, that it had been wiped from the records and kept secret by both worlds for almost two centuries.
But when Kirk read the book, it triggered strange dreams... nightmares that threatened first his health, then his sanity. It was only when he discovered that Spock also shared those dreams that the Admiral began to wonder: Could there be more to this book than he or anyone guessed...?

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Background Information

Cover gallery

Characters

James T. Kirk
Spock
Leonard McCoy
Nyota Uhura
Kirk met Uhura in Earth Spacedock who was in company with Cleante alFaisal.
Dr. Krista Sivertsen
A former student of McCoy's who attended his lectures when he was still married. McCoy visited the psychatrist to talk about Admiral Kirk with her. Krista was also the room mate of Elizabeth Dehner during their internship and exchanged letters until Dehner's first space mission after Aldebaran.
Purdi
The Troyian Purdi owns a book store on Earth where Kirk bought Strangers from the Sky.
Cleante alFaisal
Kirk met her in Earth Spacedock. She was the decisive factor why Kirk bought Strangers from the Sky as she claimed a character from the novel was an ancestor of her.
Cleante is a character from the author's novel Dwellers in the Crucible.
T'Shael
Vulcan with a blood disease who needs to consult Dr. M'Benga on a regular basis.
T'Shael is a character from the author's novel Dwellers in the Crucible.

Vulcan crew

T'Lera
Commander of the mission. She had no contact with her son's father Sotir in a long time. Together with her son she is one of two survivors of the crashlanding in 2045.
T'Preth
Helmsman and linguist.
Savar
Prefect Savar established the rules of interstellar exploration and was the father of Commander T'Lera. He observed the last two major wars on Earth. In 2045 he died at the age of 221.4 years.
Sorahl
Navigator aboard the Vulcan explorer and son of T'Lera.
Selik
Astrocartographer of the mission. Selik was a member of the Vulcan High Command and would act as representative if contact was established with Earth.
T'Syra
T'Syra did monitor Earth's radio signals, but also was the healer on the mission and xenobiology expert. She was the partner of Selik's and accompanied commander T'Lera in all but the first mission.
Stell
Sociologist and musician, but also capable to work as a technician.

Argo III inhabitants

Yoshi
Tatya Bilash
A "full-figured" woman of Russian descent.

USS Enterprise crew (2284)

Tran Van Ky
Communications officer who received three commendations during Spock's training missions.
Mathee
Lieutenant

USS Enterprise crew (2265)

Gary Mitchell
Elizabeth Dehner
Psychiatrist aboard the Enterprise who died after in the first year under Kirk's command. Elizabeth Dehner was once the room mate of Krista Sivertsen during her internship and was a student of McCoy's. Until her posting aboard Enterprise she worked at Aldebaran.
Lee Kelso

Delphinus crew

Jason Nyere
Captain
Melody Sawyer
First Officer
Henry Moy
Ensign
Reeta Patel
Lieutenant

References

AeroNav
The military arm of the United Earth for a period of time after the Third World War. It is partially combined military service embracing all aerospace and naval forces (with Ground Forces apparently having a separate command,) and is identified as an organization that, eventually, evolved into (or provided an inspiration to) Starfleet. The Delphinus was one of its combat/patrol ships, which operated out of an AeroNav base at Norfolk Island, an Australian territory in the South Pacific. (Note: Norfolk Island is not to be confused with the Norfolk, Virginia, the location of several American air and naval stations, including the headquarters of the US Atlantic Fleet.)
M-155
Argo III
Tang farm in the Pacific Ocean.
Kiev
Capital city of Ukraine; Tatya has an aunt working as a news correspondent in Kiev.
Starbase 6
McCoy visited Starbase 6 in 2265, Dr. Piper takes his position as chief medical officer aboard the Enterprise during this trip.
Carl Sagan
Melody jokingly speculated Carl Sagan once said aliens look like petunias.
T'Sri
T'Sri is a healer specialized in psychology. She was the only expert close enough to Earth, but currently on the 17 days remote Rigel XII
T'sai
The Vulcan master who guided Spock through kolinahr.
The name was taken from the novelization of Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
Commander Kyle
Former transporter chief of the Enterprise originating from Australia; Kirk had not seen him since Kyle's transfer to the Reliant.

Timeline

Note
The timeline of this book was originally based on the Star Trek Spaceflight Chronology.
1823
Savar is born.
2028
Melody Sawyer participates in the tennis finals on moon basis Goddard and finishes as second.
2045
The Vulcan scout ship crash-lands on Earth.
2048
The Icarus arrives in the Alpha Centauri system.
2055
Major breakthrough in warp technology research.
2065
The Amity rescues the crew of a disabled Vulcan ship in the Solar system. This marks the official first contact.
2265
Kirk, Spock, Kelso, Mitchel, and Dehner beam down to M-155.
2284
The novel Strangers from the Sky is published.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ The time difference between "Where No Man Has Gone Before" is originally given as 15 years, because that was the same time used in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Voyages of Imagination therefore sets the first part of the book a year before the events of Star Trek II.


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