Season of the Infidel
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| Title: | Season of the Infidel |
| Publisher: | Miranda Press |
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| Author(s): | Nadya Emanuel |
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| Date(s): | 1987 |
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| Genre: | gen |
| Fandom: | Star Trek: TOS |
| Language: | English |
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Season of the Infidel is a 200-page Star Trek: TOS novel by Nadya Emanuel. It has art by Lana Brown, Cathi Brown, and Nadya Emanuel.
Summary from an ad in Communications Console: "Place: the mirror universe. Kirk, McCoy, and Spock are stranded there, with Klingon High Commander Kor. Destination: mirro-Earth. Will they survive a visit to the capital? Will they see home again? 'Here, there be dragons...!' Fully illustrated."
From the Editorial
I hope you all enjoy the story: please keep in mind, especially those of you with cherished versions of the Mirror Universe, that (as Spock remarks along this journey) "Probabilities are infinite. If you met an alter-Spock in half of them, half of infinite is STILL infinite..." [A mathematical fact: therefore, this strange voyage into Never-Never Land (??) needn't interfere with your own conceptions of that eldritch place]. A word of caution... this novel does contain what might be called "Strong Language" depending on your view of strong language, also, "Adult Situations" (again, depending on your view). I will apologize in advance to anyone who finds these things the least bit offensive. although I'll be surprised if anybody does! There is a certain "magic something" about Star Trek, as you'll probably agree; and it's my purely personal, subjective opinion that the "magic something" can be tarnished if a writer goes to gross extremes-- so logically, I didn't!! (again, depending on your point of view, which, in a way is what the story's all about.) LOC's most welcome! My apologies again for being late.
From the Author's Notes
For Newcomers to the Star Trek Television Universe....: [are there really any left?] it should be mentioned that the novel you're about to read begins long before the captain was promoted to an admiral: in other words, before the movies. Some people think the Enterprise was stashed in dry-dock all that time...but no, she was out there speeding for the stars and there were many, many episodes we didn't get to see, which had to wait for zines! This particular episode is set several years after Kirk's amazing journey to an alternate dimension out in Halkan space (Mirror, Mirror) where he beamed aboard a mirror-Enterprise with Uhura, Bones and Mr. Scott. It was "their" Enterprise....and yet it wasn't "theirs" at all! It was a dark reflection in a cosmic glass: a terror-ship, where men rose up in rank by murdering their fellow-officers, where Sulu, Chekhov, even Mr. Spock were vicious Fascists, and where Kirk was forced to "play" his other-self-- who isn't there because he's on the "real" Enterprise. With the aid of the bearded alter-Spock (and Marlena Moreau, the other captain's woman) Jim escaped, but not before encouraging the other Spock to seize the Enterprise and spare the Halkans. Did he? Could he? What became of all of them?? Was there more afoot than met the eye....?
