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NOVEL
The Entropy Effect
Attribution

Series:	The Original Series, No. 2
Author(s):	Vonda N. McIntyre
Publication information
Published:	paperback - June 1981
Reprint(s):	paperback - September 2006
Pages:	224
ISBN:	ISBN 0671836927
Chronology
Date:	2270
Stardate:	5001.1
Original 1981 cover

The universe has less than a century left… unless Spock can change history.—The Entropy Effect was a Star Trek: The Original Series novel written by Vonda N. McIntyre. The book was the second Star Trek novel ever published by Pocket Books, and the first with an original story.

Introduction

The Enterprise is summoned to transport a dangerous criminal from a starbase prison to a rehabilitation center: brilliant physicist Dr. Georges Mordreaux, accused of promising to send people back in time - then killing them instead.

But when Mordreaux escapes, bursts onto the bridge and kills Captain Kirk, Spock must journey back in time to avert disaster - before it occurs.

Now there's more at stake than just Kirk's life. Mordreaux's experiments have thrown the entire universe into a deadly time warp. Spock is fighting time...and the universe is closing in on itself with the relentless squeeze of…

The Entropy Effect.

Summary

References

Characters

Beranardi al Auriga • Jenniver Aristeides • Maximo Alisaunder Arrunja • Ian Braithewaite • Christine Chapel • Pavel Chekov • Mandala Flynn • Hunter • James T. Kirk • Lee • Leonard McCoy • Georges Mordreaux • Mree • Neon • Ilya Nikolaievich • Perim • Janice Rand • Montgomery Scott • Beatrice Smith • Snnanagfashtalli • Spock • Hikaru Sulu • Nyota Uhura

Referenced only 

Aerfen • Pallas Athene • Casanova • D'Artagnan • Samuel R. Delaney • Desmoulins • Devil • Alexander Dumas • Albert Einstein • Friendly • Amanda Grayson • God • Homer • Don Juan • George Kirk • Peter Kirk • Minerva • Roger Penrose • Sarek • Alfred Tennyson • Frank J. Tipler • Vekesh

Starships and vehicles

USS Enterprise (Constitution-class) • USS Aerfen (patrol fighter) • Mitra

Locations

Aleph • Aleph Prime • Arcturus • Earth • Federation Headquarters • Gamma Draconis VII • Ganjitsu • Hell • Makropyrios • Rehabilitation Colony 7 • Shinpai

Races and cultures

Changed • Ganjitsujin • Human • Klingon • Orion • Romulan • Vulcan

States and organizations

Flat Earth Society • Romulan Star Empire • Starfleet • Starfleet Academy • United Federation of Planets

Other references

Academy Star • anachronistic event • Ancient Modern English • android • armchair • Astronomical unit • Babel-17 • beard suppressant • bed • bee • Bioelectronic crystal • Black Plague • boot • brandy • brass • bread • chess • clone • coffee • communicator • couch • The Count of Monte Cristo • dojo • dolphin • duffel bag • EEG • energy cuff • entropy • ESP • fencing • fighter • flimsies • foil • Frankenstein • glove • gi • G-type star • granite • hara-kiri • hawk • Hawking black hole • Hawking radiation • heme carrier • hypermorphic botulism • incipient nova • iron • Islandia • Japanese • judo • Kentucky bourbon • knife • leopard • loon • memory cassette • milk • Minerva • naked singularity • Old Calendar • paper • partnership family • pencil • phaser rifle • phoenix eagle • pirate • plastic • Reader • ring • ruby • Russian • sabre • sash • Sibyl Sue Blue • silk • silver • Spiderweb • Sputnik 1 • Stegosaurus • The Tale of Genji • temporal displacement • The Three Musketeers • The Time Machine • Tyrannosaurus • ultimate code • uniform • The Virginian • Vulcan meditation stone • whiskey • wind-rider • wine • wolf • X-ray • yoga • yogi

Appendices

Connections

External link

• The Entropy Effect article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.