The Monsters of Star Trek by Daniel Cohen

Author:Daniel Cohen [Cohen, Daniel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 0-671-68549-X
Publisher: Archway Paperback
Published: 1980-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

Kirk had met the Vampire Cloud before. While he was serving on the U.S.S. Farragut, the ship met the monster in the region of Tycho IV. The creature killed Captain Garrovick and half the crew of the Farragut. At that time Kirk had hesitated a moment before firing at it. Even after he did fire, the monster was not harmed, but Kirk has always felt guilty about not acting more quickly.

Eleven years later when he meets the Vampire Cloud again, he takes off after it. He does this in spite of the fact that the Enterprise is on another mission altogether. Kirk tracks the Vampire Cloud to the surface of Argus X, where it lives. A meeting with it there leaves a crew member of the Enterprise dead. Kirk is more determined than ever to get the thing.

When the Vampire Cloud leaves Argus X, the Enterprise follows. The cloud is not frightened and will not run away. It turns on the Enterprise and enters it. But the blood-sucker runs into some bad luck. The first person it encounters is Spock. It needs red blood cells and has no taste at all for the Vulcan’s green blood. It flees the Enterprise and heads for Tycho IV, where Kirk fears it intends to reproduce itself.

Kirk and Ensign Garrovick, son of Kirk’s former commanding officer, decide to kill it with a matter/antimatter bomb. But they must serve as bait. The Vampire Cloud just can’t resist the lure of red blood. Kirk and the young ensign manage to escape only seconds before the Vampire Cloud is destroyed by the powerful bomb.

Several “Star Trek” episodes concern the fight between the United Federation of Planets, which the Enterprise serves, and the Klingon Empire. The Federation and the Empire deeply distrust one another, yet at one point they sign a peace treaty. The treaty is not entirely voluntary. It is forced upon them by the Organians. The Organians are among the most powerful creatures in the entire universe. They are pure energy beings. But they do not choose to show their power.

As far as everyone else is concerned, Organia is a rather primitive planet. Its inhabitants appear to be humanoid and are ruled by a rather fussy and ineffective Council of Elders. This is all just a pose. The Organians just want to be left alone. No one would have bothered about them except that their little planet happens to occupy a strategic position between the Klingon Empire and the Federation.

The Federation is afraid that the Klingons are going to invade Organia. The Enterprise is sent to try and persuade the Organians to accept Federation protection from the Klingons. The Organians are not interested. They like their little world just the way it is. They don’t want anything to do with anyone else’s fights.

To Kirk this attitude seems foolhardy. And while discussions with the Organians are dragging on, the Klingons actually do invade. Kirk and Spock are stranded on Organia by the invasion. Not content to just lie low, Kirk and Spock try to sabotage the Klingons.

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