New Alliance

Zine
Title:	New Alliance
Publisher:	Guinn Berger (editor?), Romulan Press
Editor:
Author(s):	Marjorie Robbins
Cover Artist(s):	Virginia Lee Smith
Illustrator(s):
Date(s):	May 1979
Medium:	print zine, fanfic
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Genre:
Fandom:	Star Trek: TOS
Language:	English
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New Alliance is a gen Star Trek: TOS 73-page novel written by Marjorie Robbins and illustrated by Virginia Lee Smith. It is mimeo.

Summary

"The Enterprise is attacked, damaged, and in tow."

Reactions and Reviews

The author has taken on an ambitious theme, the exploration of devoted friendship, and illustrates it with two pairs of friends; the male James Kirk and his first officer, and the female Queen Sanyia and her cousin Nivarg. The two couples collide when the badly damaged Enterprise, escaping a Klingon fleet, invades Namaromian space, and in an confrontation with the Queen's small fleet, inadvertently annihilates one of her ships. His ship crippled, the Klingon fleet closing, KIrk is faced with the unthinkable -- surrender the Enterpsise in order to preserve her crew, and though he and Spock are placed under arrest by the Nomaromians. Queen Sanyia, attempting to be scrupulously fair and also do what is best for her own people, is caught between her promise of safety for the Federation personnel, and the possibility of a Klingon war. The story has great potential, not quite realized; unfortunately much of the action has been sacrificed to better deal with the emotional theme, but it's well worth reading, in spite of its flaws. They type is clear and of good, readable size, the illos are more than fair, and the author has worked out the set of circumstances where it's perfectly logical for Kirk to surrender his ship. The pair of females come off best, and the males a bit too over-emotional; the Queen's quiet integrity makes Kirk's outbursts seem childish and petulant. But it's a very good first story.