Rennox Four

Star Trek TOS Fanfiction
Title:	Rennox Four ("Rennox 4" on the table of contents, "Rennox Four" on the story itself)
Author(s):	Ken Gooch
Date(s):	1973
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Genre:	gen
Fandom:	Star Trek: The Original Series
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Rennox Four is a Star Trek: TOS story by Ken Gooch.

It was published in the print zine Berengaria #1.

Reactions and Reviews

More threatening aliens and silly technobabble.

I could see REMNOX FOUR being made into an episode for the ST-Toon. It's nice and tight, good science fiction, the characterizations hold water (though McCoy's monkey wrenches line was a little too much), the 
dependence on dialog kept the thing moving at a fast pace and a lot of it 
is good old Star Trek and older, space-opera ideas (that is not a put-down
 space opera is fun) — it just bored the hell out of me.

RENNOX FOUR has in its favor some good imaginative ideas, the kind that stir up the old sense of wonder. But I kept thinking that such things as the accidental acquisitions caused by malfunction in the transporter room and the arrival on stage of Rennox Four were not developed as fully as they might have been to achieve maximum effect. The principals on the Enterprise don't make the effort you'd expect to learn as much as possible immediately about this disclosure of the Inter-universal Area for Peace, for instance, and the trouble in the transporter room doesn't cause the tension that should be created by the danger that more than one alien form of life might have slipped aboard. Still, like APOSTASY, this story has the flavor of the television series, as if it were a slightly revised shooting script.

I have found myself interested in all the fiction [in this issue of Berengaria], so far except "Rennox Four", which I thought was choppy and had no character development at all. (I can read a really lousy story, if I find the characters interesting.)