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The Shedai were an ancient, powerful species that once ruled the Taurus Reach in the distant past . Their homeworld was Jinoteur IV . The Shedai were a highly-advanced civilization, capable of astounding technological and scientific feats, such as completely reorganizing the matter of entire worlds and engineering entire biospheres.

Sometime long ago, the Shedai went into a period of extended hibernation, withdrawing from the galactic scene. They left behind evidence of their presence in the Taurus Reach in remnants of their technology, which would come to be known to the Federation as the Taurus meta-genome . The Tholian Assembly long feared the return of the Shedai, which occurred in 2265 as the unintentional result of Starfleet and Klingon investigation and expansion into the Taurus Reach. ( Star Trek: Vanguard )

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Review: ‘TOS: Harm’s Way’ Delivers Everything You Could Want From A Star Trek Novel

| December 26, 2022 | By: Dénes House 17 comments so far

Star Trek: The Original Series – Harm’s Way Written by David Mack Published by Simon & Schuster in paperback, ebook, and audiobook

“How long until we get inside the caves? This rain is driving me up a wall.” “The rain is incidental. It is our captors who compel us to climb this wall.” He couldn’t see her, but some aspect of Spock’s inherited Vulcan telepathic talent felt Babitz’s glare of contempt aimed at his back. When at last she spoke, her voice was as steady as a blade in the hands of a Romulan assassin. “That was a clever mockery of my idiom, Spock. I trust you feel proud of yourself?” “In general, yes. That particular bit of wordplay, however, was merely adequate, since I can work only with what I am given.”

The last Star Trek novel of 2022 turns out to be its best – and that’s saying something in a year that had an amazing book by Una McCormack ( Star Trek Picard: Second Self ) and a fun and exciting dive into Trek horror in Alex White’s debut novel ( Star Trek Deep Space Nine: Revenant ). But David Mack’s Harm’s Way is a home run of a yarn that does everything you’d hope a Trek novel would do, with panache, humanity, and a great deal of humor.

Set shortly after the events of the original Star Trek episode, “The Doomsday Machine,” Harm’s Way  balances two parallel storylines: while Captain Kirk, Scotty, and Uhura face off against Klingon Captain Kang in orbit around a hideously inhospitable planet, Spock, Chekov, and Sulu race the elements, time, and a Klingon landing party in a search for alien secrets of unimaginable power. When their search for evidence of the deadly ancient Shedai species becomes more immediate than theoretical, Spock and his party must find a way to work with Klingon Science Officer Mara and her strike team in order to survive.

I’ve not read Mack’s Vanguard series of Trek novels , written in collaboration with Marco Palmieri, Dayton Ward, and Kevin Dilmore, but though this book ties into that series, I never felt lost or confused. The characters, ships, and situations are so clearly drawn and so engaging that I was locked in from the start. Mack seems to find the most clever and humorous way of phrasing every sentence, such that reading each page is a joy. And his grasp of the canonical Trek characters is absolute–this is not just Mack’s Kirk, this IS Kirk. This IS Spock. This IS Scotty. Each character has a chance to shine.

Harm’s Way also often feels like an immersion into Klingon language and culture. If there’s a canonical Klingon word or phrase that isn’t used in this book, I would be surprised. Mack’s Klingons come to the story with a definite agenda and point of view, and the battle of wits between Kirk and Kang in space is as delightful as the uneasy alliance between Spock and Mara on the ground. A minor point that TrekMovie editor Anthony Pascale often mentions in his Trek reviews is that there is a difference between science and engineering. Mack understands that difference, and when Scotty and Spock interact, the difference is clear.

“They tell us our enemy has no honor. Yet what is honor if not courage free of the expectation of reward? What is honor if not the willingness to sacrifice all for a principle?”

This final Trek novel of 2022 checks all the boxes for what I come to Treklit to find. Our favorite characters handled well, new characters that sparkle and have their own lives, rousing action, humanistic philosophy, cool ships and technology, an alien menace, Trekkian diplomacy, a large dollop of humor, and a compelling climax. What else could you ask for?

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When David Mack is in top form, his books are excellent, and not just for tie-in fiction.

This one is clearly going to be considered up their with his best.

I totally agree that it works as a standalone. For those who have thought about giving Treklit a try, this is a great entry point.

By the way, I’m not through to the end, but only because I’ve been rationing it out as a holiday treat.

Following up to add, having finished the book, that I agree with Denès. Best of the year certainly, and one of the strongest of the Vanguard series.

I really liked how Mack gets all the voices correctly. I can hear Kirk, Spock, Scott, Sulu and Chekhov.

I also like the way he portrays Klingon culture and biological differences in a three dimensional, balanced way. You really can see this as a beginning of a rapprochement between two distinct cultures and sets of values.

It is however an action adventure, at times violent, graphically so. For those who find Mack’s books too dark at times, those might not be to your taste.

So many of the recent TOS books have had one thread with Kirk and half the crew in one place and another thread with Spock and the other half of the crew in a different place. But part of the fun of TOS is watching Kirk and Spock banter with each other and tackle problems together. It’s okay if they’re split up occasionally, but why are almost ALL of the TOS books splitting them up these days?

Spock was the first officer.

Having both of them running landing parties never made much sense except to put the top two actors on the call sheet in danger together. There’s a very compelling reason Picard and Janeway weren’t shown leading away teams, and writers are less likely to ignore that now.

In this case, the Klingons are in the area so the captain needed to stay with the ship no matter how much Jim Kirk wanted to ride into danger.

It’s a great Kirk story actually. I’ll avoid spoilers other than to say that Mack does an excellent job of giving us insight into how the final actions of Matt Decker in face of the Doomsday machine would have taken their toll on Kirk.

All of this is true, but so is what I said: Part of the charm of TOS is the seamless way Kirk and Spock work together and their obvious but understated affection for one another.

In understand the bromance has a strong appeal for many fans, but I’m happy to see other relationships shine in that ensemble.

As it happens, Akiva Goldsman co-Showrunner of SNW seems to put priority on the laying the foundations for that bromance over focusing on the characters that served on the Enterprise before Kirk’s captaincy. So folks like you will likely continue to have that niche covered while those of us who were really looking forward to a focus on Pike’s Enterprise will continue to have to love SNW for what it is instead of what it promised to be.

David Mack is one my very favorite Trek novelists. He really seems to understand the voices of the characters, in a way that reminds me of Michael Jan Friedman, Peter David, and Diane Duane. I can’t wait to read this.

Sorry, I gotta ask – the description says it takes place shortly after the “ Star Trek  episode, “The Doomsday Machine,” which is second season…. but it has Klingon characters they’ll later meet in “Day of the Dove” in the third season?   That seems… wrong, but I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt. Great review, makes me excited to get this one. Thanks!

I didn’t read the novel, but why do you think this is wrong? In Day of the Dove, you see IIRC that Kirk and Kang know each other, so nothing precludes them meeting beforehand.

Not every interaction in TOS is a first meeting.

In fact, with Kirk’s reputation, even those Klingons who hadn’t met him, should have had the brief on him before the third season.

Indeed, it’s clear that Kirk and Koloth knew each other in Tribbles.

My impression from “Day of the Dove” was that they were surprised to meet Mara. but admittedly, I haven’t watched the episode for many years. Thanks.

It’s established in TOS “Day of the Dove” that Kirk and Kang knew each other before the episode. This has been developed in several Star Trek novels and comic books over the years.

Another important detail from “Day of the Dove” is that the emotional vampire (referred to in the text as [*]) impairs their memories, creates new ones that serve its purpose of fomenting violence, and manipulates the characters’ perceptions.

This is why Mara, Chekov, Sulu, et al do not remember having met before during the events of that episode. Those memories are being suppressed by [*]. But the unconscious recollection of those events is part of what stirs Mara to trust the Enterprise officers in “Day of the Dove” — and inspires Kang to trust Mara’s counsel.

Thanks, David! And thanks for a great novel!

After 13 years, I am currently trying my way through Vanguard. Made it to number 3 so far, but honestly: It’s chore. Especially if you hav read some actually interesting books beforehand. The last Trek book I read before that was “The Last Best Hope” and the difference between this series and the latter book is night and day. Vanguard is just soo predictable, full of cliches and tropes and cheeky dialogues, it’s really hardly bearable. I promised to give it a chance until the end of book 4, and if it doesn’t get any better I abort. I am really surprised, because I remember being quite fond of that book series back as a teenager in the 2000s

This and the rather boring Disco tie-in novel “Desperate Hours” make me do a hard pass on anything David Mack, to be honest.

I really loved Vanguard overall, but I agree the writing was laborious at times.

Sometimes the alternate writers in a series can end up having each of the writers assigned against their strengths.

In terms of David Mack, when he’s on he’s great. Desperate Hours is a ‘put everything back in the box where you found it novel’ based on the writers bible. Those aren’t his preference to write and it shows it seems.

If you’re haven’t tried the Destiny trilogy, you don’t know what he can do. That piece is high quality SF period.

David Mack never misses. I’ve read all his Star Trek book and they all are great. Wish they grab him to write a movie or to write for one of the shows (he would be a great fit for SNW)

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• Revived c.2265 by the Wanderer following start of Starfleet research (VAN Novel: Summon the Thunder )
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Ward Previews Vanguard: What Judgments Come

What Judgments Come , the sixth installment in the Star Trek: Vanguard saga, will be available on September 27 from Simon & Schuster . In it, the secrets of the Shedai have been unlocked, but at what price? The Shedai, awakened from their slumber, are not pleased by Starfleet's actions. Meanwhile, Ambassador Jetanien comes to the realization that his peace efforts may have been undermined all along. And, elsewhere, exiled former Vanguard commander Diego Reyes may be Starfleet's last hope for stopping the Shedai. Simon & Schuster will release Star Trek: Vanguard: What Judgments Come as both a mass-market paperback and eBook. It's penned by Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore, runs 352 pages and will cost $7.99 in the U.S.

StarTrek.com recently caught up with Ward for a quick interview. Here's what he had to say --  and check back again on Monday to read Ward's latest "Ten For Ward" blog, only at StarTrek.com .

What excites you most about this particular story?

Ward: Along with David Mack, Kevin and I are getting to do something that's never really been done before: bring to a planned conclusion one of the novel spin-off series. From the start, Vanguard has had a definitive endgame in mind, though specific details about how to get there were always left nebulous. As the story has evolved over the five previous novels, it became apparent that it was time to start the process of wrapping things up, and to do so before the series began to overstay its welcome, or was abruptly canceled due to dwindling sales or a change in editorial agenda or vision. It was actually a very tough sell, first to our editor at Pocket Books, and then to CBS Consumer Products. However, both parties allowed us to make our case, and it was during those discussions that the idea for the recent Declassified anthology came about, which serves as something of a prelude to the final arc of the Vanguard saga.

As for our novel, What Judgments Come , what excites me most about this story is that it, along with Dave Mack's forthcoming final novel in the series, Storming Heaven , was developed by the three of us: Dave, Kevin, and myself. It's the culmination of what essentially has been a very fun and very creatively exciting collaboration dating back to Kevin's and my first work on the series back in 2005. Whereas we often played a game of good-spirited "one-upmanship" so far as escalating storylines from book to book throughout the series, we've always worked together to make sure everything fit together. We took that to a whole new level for these last two books.

This is actually part one of a two-part conclusion to the Vanguard saga. Without ruining too much of what happens, in what ways do the events of this story dangle the threads that will be tied up in the final book?

Ward: What Judgments Come resolves a few character arcs and storylines on its own, while also "lighting the fuse" for what will be the climactic finish in Storming Heaven . There's even a shared framing sequence that starts and ends both books. Though Storming Heaven will pick up precisely where What Judgment Comes leaves off, Dave, Kevin and I made sure that each book tells its own story while at the same time working together to provide something of a "feature-length series finale episode" feel.

As far as you know, how far along is the final book?

Ward: Dave just recently submitted his manuscript for Storming Heaven a week or so ago, and he's currently waiting to hear back from our editor as to any requested changes or tweaks. I'm (hopefully) going to read it this weekend. Even though I have the outline and know how everything ends, it's just not the same as reading a Dave Mack novel, so I expect this to be a real treat, because I know he pulled out all the stops for this one.

For additional details about Star Trek: Vanguard: What Judgments Come , click here .

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Ceti Alpha V was the fifth planet of the Ceti Alpha system , in Sector 25712 of the Alpha Quadrant . It was home to the non-sentient Ceti eels , and briefly hosted a colony made up by the crew of the SS Botany Bay .

The planet was described as "barely Minshara-class " in 2156 and "habitable, although a bit savage, somewhat inhospitable" in 2267 . However, shortly thereafter its orbit shifted and it became decidedly more hostile. ( TOS : " Space Seed "; ENT : " Twilight "; Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan )

Ceti Alpha V was located a considerable distance from the Delphic Expanse and the planet Denobula as well as three days away from Regula I at an unspecified warp speed . The nearest starbase was Starbase 12 . ( ENT : " Twilight "; TOS : " Space Seed "; Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan )

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In an alternate timeline , Ceti Alpha V was the refuge for the last 6,000 members of the Human race from 2156 to 2165 – survivors of the devastating Xindi attacks on Earth and its colonies – as it was far from the Delphic Expanse . The colony's location was kept secret for a great deal of time, but a Yridian discovered it by tailing Doctor Phlox , thus allowing the Xindi to attack. This timeline was negated during the subsequent Battle of Ceti Alpha V when Captain Jonathan Archer triggered a subspace implosion onboard the badly damaged Enterprise NX-01 to destroy the interspatial parasites impairing his cognitive functions. ( ENT : " Twilight ")

Ceti Alpha V, unrecognizable in 2285

The desolate surface of Ceti Alpha V in 2285

In 2267, after discovering the Botany Bay adrift in space in an unnamed sector , the ancient spacecraft was rigged for towing by crew from the Enterprise . Traveling at warp factor 2, the Enterprise , with the Botany Bay traveling alongside, entered the adjacent Sector 25712 on a heading toward the sector's command base - Starbase 12 . This heading brought the starship near the Ceti Alpha star system. After a failed spacejacking by Khan Noonien Singh , he, his lover Marla McGivers , and his Augment followers were settled on this planet by Captain James T. Kirk . ( TOS : " Space Seed ")

Only six months later, Ceti Alpha VI exploded, shifting Ceti Alpha V's orbit and turning it into a desert -like world, dominated by craylon gas , sand and high- velocity winds . The planet thus became inimical to life , with the only remaining known indigenous species being the Ceti eel .

In 2285, the USS Reliant visited the planet as part of Project Genesis . Mistaking it for Ceti Alpha VI , Captain Clark Terrell and XO Commander Pavel Chekov beamed down to the surface , only to be taken prisoner by Khan and his surviving followers. Khan then hijacked the Reliant and stranded its crew on the planet's surface. The crew were later recovered by the USS Enterprise , following Khan's death at the Battle of the Mutara Nebula . ( Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan )

After being stranded on Ceti Alpha IV by Beckett Mariner sometime in the 2370s , Malvus noted in retrospect that the conditions on Ceta Alpha IV were "much worse" than those on Ceti Alpha V. ( LD : " An Embarrassment Of Dooplers ")

Cloud cover at starting point for skydiving scenario

Skydiving on Ceti Alpha V was one of the holodeck programs available on the USS Protostar . Hologram Janeway showed this program to Dal R'El and Jankom Pog in 2383 . ( PRO : " Kobayashi ")

Ceti Alpha V inhabitants [ ]

Khan Noonien Singh and his followers including Ling , McPherson , Otto , Joaquin , Joachim , Rodriguez , and Kati , as well as Marla McGivers were the first known settlers.

Temporary inhabitants included the crew of the Reliant comprising of Kyle (a commander at that time), Helmsman Beach , and others.

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• ENT : " Twilight "
• Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
• PRO : " Kobayashi " (hologram only)

Background information [ ]

Starbase 12's sector was named in Star Trek: The Next Generation episode " Aquiel ". This planet's quadrant of origin is inferred based on the position of this starbase as seen in the star chart appearing in the Star Trek: Discovery episode " Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad ".

In the script of ENT : " Twilight ", a scene description referring to a view of Ceti Alpha V from space in 2156 characterized the planet as "a dry, inhospitable-looking class-M planet." In the same script, the surface view of Ceti Alpha V as of 2165 was described thus: " Dozens of makeshift Human dwellings are clustered in this small valley . We're on a harsh but habitable Class-M world... only a few occasional patches of vegetation are visible here and there. "

The writers joked on the audio commentary for "Twilight" that, if it wasn't bad enough the Xindi killed off almost all of Humanity, a hundred years from "Twilight", Ceti Alpha V would have been destroyed as well.

For "Twilight", a digital matte painting of the surface of Ceti Alpha V was created by Black Pool Studios . [1]

The Star Trek Encyclopedia  (4th ed., vol. 1, p. 128) located Ceti Alpha V in the Mutara sector .

Apocrypha [ ]

The spin-off novel To Reign in Hell: The Exile of Khan Noonien Singh explicitly addressed the above issue. Spock postulated that Ceti Alpha VI's destruction and the environmental impacts on Ceti Alpha V had another, shared cause (possibly a small black hole passing through the system), while apparently the miscounting resulted from the Reliant 's crew counting inward, finding the outermost planet (and mistaking the remains of Ceti Alpha VI for part of an outer asteroid belt ). The Vanguard novel Storming Heaven had Ceti Alpha VI being destroyed as a result of experimentations with Shedai technology by Dr. Marcus and Ming Xiong.

In Vonda N. McIntyre 's novelization of Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan , the planet is called Alpha Ceti V. There was some dialogue between the Reliant 's bridge crew speculating about the cause of the discrepancy between the planet count of the system reported by an old interstellar probe (20) and the current count (19) – one possible conclusion they drew was that the limitations of the probe's imaging systems had led to inaccurate data being reported. This dialogue occurred shortly before Terrell and Chekov decided to beam down to the planet.

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• Ceti Alpha V at Memory Beta , the wiki for licensed Star Trek works

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Mack’s writing credits span television (for episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), film, and comic books. He also has worked as a consultant on the animated television series Star Trek: Lower Decks and Star Trek: Prodigy. In June 2022, the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers honored him as a Grandmaster with its Faust Award.

His most recent publications include Star Trek: Coda, Book III: Oblivion’s Gate and Harm’s Way, a Star Trek: Vanguard / Star Trek: The Original Series crossover novel. His upcoming works include several original short stories in various new anthologies.

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Captain James T. Kirk and the  Enterprise  crew race to save a missing Federation scientist, only to become trapped between the Klingons’ infamous Captain Kang and Starfleet’s mysterious Operation: Vanguard.

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In eons long past, alien hegemons known as the Shedai ruled thousands of worlds in the Orion Arm of the Milky Way. For 100,000 years their former thralls have thought the Shedai were dead and gone. They were wrong.

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Shedai Warden

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The Shedai Warden was an ancient nightmarish Shedai which utterly destroyed a Klingon research station on planet Zeta Aurigae IV in February of the year 2268 . ( VAN - Declassified novella : The Stars Look Down )

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• VAN - Declassified novella : The Stars Look Down