Serenidad

Zine
Title:	Serenidad
Publisher:	Orion Press
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Author(s):	Rick Endres with Linda McInnis
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Date(s):	1991
Medium:	print zine
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Fandom:	Star Trek: TOS
Language:	English
External Links:	Orion Press
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Serenidad is an adult Star Trek: TOS 320-page anthology by Rick Endres with Linda McInnis. It has warnings for violence, sexual situations, rape and mind rape. It collects stories in the Serenidad series which were first published in Stardate and in Orion.

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• The Wages of Vengeance by Rick Endres originally in Stardate #5 (1980)
• Oath of Vengeance by Rick Endres, originally in Stardate #8
• Serenidad: The Cost of Freedom by Rick Endres & Linda McInnis, originally published in Stardate 21, and Orion 22-24, also reprinted in Orion Archives: 2272-2275 The Second Mission 4.
• Teresa by Rick Endres, reprint from Orion 27 (1988)
• Aftermath by Rick Endres reprint from Orion 27 (1988)

Reactions and Reviews

Well, I wasn't all that taken with it. I find all the Serenidad stories rather tedious, adolescent & gruesome. The tiresome princess Teresa seems to be only there for torture fantasies. And it doesn't fit to me that Klingons would give some kind of special protected status to healers. But plenty of other readers like them fine :-)

• The Wages of Vengeance / Rick Endres, The first and one of the more interesting of the Serenidad set - Kirk is seen to assassinate the president of Serenidad, so he and the crew have to find the Klingon double. Lot of rape and torture of pretty-little-thing women.
• Oath of Vengeance / Rick Endres, The Klingons have returned to Serenidad to lay claim to that planet's vast dilithium wealth. They have captured both Prince Consort Carlos and Princess Teresa and plan to extract their vengeance on the young lovers - unless a certain starship captain can stop them in time.
• The Cost of Freedom / Rick Endres, Grisly continuation of the Serenidad saga. Teresa has been raped, tortured, and mind-wiped and finds she is pregnant with a Klingon baby which McCoy refuses to abort. Klingons virtually wipe out the Serenidad government and put Carlos and Teresa under the mindsifter. Carlos gets converted into a Klingon puppet. Teresa can't be converted, so she is tortured instead. Just about everybody is dead (Jim), in very bloody ways, by the time the Enterprise ignores orders and joins the fray. Valkris appears here as sister/lover assassin-buddy to Klingon warrior wonder woman L'yan, whom Carlos manages to kill in the end. And McCoy (pushing 50?) is in love with Teresa (18 or so). Uh-huh.
• Teresa / Rick Endres, After the Klingons are repulsed, Teresa must deal with those who would have her get rid of her half-Klingon child, ponder her growing affection for McCoy, bury Carlos, and assert her crown rights to the Council. Valkris discovers how her lover died, and vows vengeance.