Author(s):	Melinda M. Snodgrass
Artist(s):	Boris Vallejo
Publisher:	Pocket Books
Series:	Pocket TOS #19 Titan Books #39
Published:	1 September 1984
Pages:	252
Stardate:	3126.7 (Unknown)
Reference(s):	ISBN 0671696548 (paperback) ASIN B002ZAJIU6 (Kindle)

The USS Enterprise must stop the slaughter of an alien race, or risk the fate of the universe!

SummaryEdit

From the book jacket

Captain Kirk and the USS Enterprise join the Klingons to avert disaster in the Taygeta V system – where a time/space warp has swallowed a spaceship without a trace. Spock suspects a link between the anomaly and the inhabitants of Taygeta, semi-aquatic creatures killed for the jewel-like tears secreted at the moment of death. But a mutinous Klingon officer threatens the vital mission, as a desperate Kirk and Spock race to save the Taygetians, the Federation – and the entire universe!

Background InformationEdit

• This is the only Star Trek novel by Melinda M. Snodgrass. She was later a story editor and writer on Star Trek: The Next Generation. She is credited with writing "The Measure Of A Man", "Pen Pals", "Up The Long Ladder", "The Ensigns of Command", and "The High Ground".

CharactersEdit

Canon CharactersEdit

James T. Kirk

Spock

Uhura

Leonard McCoy

Montgomery Scott

Kor

Non-Canon CharactersEdit

Kali 

Kor's wife

Guy Maslin 

Human musician, brought by Kirk as an expert to help the crew learn the Taygetans' music-based language

External linksEdit

• The Tears of the Singers at Wikipedia
• The Tears of the Singers at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works