The Ebony Prince

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Title:	The Ebony Prince
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Author(s):	Winston A. Howlett
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Date(s):	never published
Series?:	yes
Medium:	print
Genre:	gen
Fandom:	Star Trek: TOS
Language:	English
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The Ebony Prince WAS NOT PUBLISHED. It was to be the fourth Probe Special Issue, a novel by Winston Howlett.

The Swahili Series

There are three Probe Special Issues:

• The Goddess Uhura
• Captain Uhura
• The Starwitch
• The Ebony Prince (planned but not published)

Probe Special Issue 4: The Ebony Prince -- Planned, But Not Published

One thing I had to worry about was when I started getting away from Uhura . . . one of the things I was doing was the ‘Ebony Prince’ novel, based on a character I used to do at costume calls. And in the story, I started getting involved in politics and economics in the Federation. I set it up to mirror what goes on in our real world, in the various strata of the Free World, the Communist World, and the Third World . . . the various economic things, with each side pulling and tugging against the others, even though they are a Federation. And it became more and more ‘human’ as I looked into it, as to how all these worlds interact with each other . . . Why they went through that problem with the Coridan Question in ‘Journey to Babel’ . . . why the Tellarites didn’t want these people who were being constantly ripped off to be given protection — because the Tellarites were going to rip them off some more. It’s sad and it takes some of the shine off our nice shiny twenty-third century STAR TREK universe, but it’s real life. It shows that for money, people will do anything. And that’s one of the main things I’m dealing with in the story: that everyone is struggling for power; everyone wants... not just a piece of the action, but also they want to be on to.