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Rigel Five
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| Title: | Rigel Five |
| Author(s): | Joe Martin |
| Date(s): | 1977 |
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| Genre(s): | gen |
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Rigel Five is a Star Trek: TOS story by Joe Martin.
It was published in Delta Triad #4.
Part of a Series
- DT1: The Alphan Primaries
- DT2: Companion Four
- DT3: To a Time Divided
- DT4: Bivouac
- DT5: Rigel Five
- DT5: Mission and Men
- DTSI: Autumn's Echo
Summary
A McCoy story, key scientists from Rigel 5 work with the ENTERPRISE to stablize their sun.
Reactions and Reviews
Nice story of self-sacrifice. A party of Rigellian scientists come aboard for a secret mission; the youngest of them quickly becomes a surrogate son to McCoy. Kirk and Spock, watching with alarm as the relationship develops, know that the Rigellians are a suicide squad and that the boy must be convinced to choose death just as he has begun to learn the joys of life. The very end of the tale is a link to another story, "Alphan Primaries" from Delta Triad #1, dealing with McCoy's real son. [1]
...interesting minor piece... [2]
The last story in the zine is one with the most elements: "Rigel 5" by Joe Martin and MLD again, is a deeply moving story of friendly aliens whose paths cross those of the E crew briefly; of high courage and lessons learned by all involved. No love story here in sight, but most absorbing. There was an unusually clumsy addendum to the main plot, however, with the authors' apparent effort to link this story chronologically with one in an earlier issue. The item was distinctly obtrusive, and can serve no there obvious purpose than the attempt to interest the reader into buying the other zine. Inept, in a zine of this caliber.[3]
References
- ^ Halliday’s Star Trek Zinedex (TOS) - Title Index, Archived version
- ^ by Paula Smith from Scuttlebutt #5
- ^ Dixie Owen in WXYZine #1 (1978)