Star Trek TOS Zinedex: Authors (G)

Claire Gabriel


"The Decision" Berengaria #3, July 1974: Sarek, over Amanda's objections, insists that Spock be delivered prematurely to save her. Oddly bigoted healer here, valuing the fetus more than the mother. But an interesting story.

"First Contact" Interphase #4, May 1977 (p. 6-15): On a starbase, eagerly waiting to see his new ship, not-quite-captain Kirk seeks out friends -- Pike, Mitchell and then McCoy, to share his excitement. But it is his new acquaintance, Spock, who understands and responds to his need for a private viewing by shuttlecraft.

Paul Gadzikowski


*"Trek to the Planet of the Apes" Berengaria #5/6 [Dec 1975?] (p. 67-78): A charming romp in which Gil Paul pops onto the Enterprise from "another fiction-plane." Nice touches are McCoy's insistence that every time Kirk complains of boredom they get in trouble - subsequently proved out despite Spock's disdain - and Gil's conviction that he is immune to landing-party dangers because he is an ongoing series character in yet another fiction-plane. (Which also explains the survival of the Enterprise week after week.) Assigned to study the newly-discovered fiction-plane, the Enterprise boys end up in the Planet of the Apes fiction plane, from which they rescue two humans. They try to drop Gil off in Australia, where there are still some humans, but that society has deliberately repressed its creativity and therefore has insufficient technology to return Gil home - oh, yes, the gizmo that sent him to our fiction-plane blew up after delivering him - and Gil will just have to stay on board until the ship's explorations of the fiction-plane vortex stumble across his own plane and he can get off.

"USS Sesame" Berengaria #8, [July?] 1976 (p. 27-36): Romp; second in the "alternate fiction-plane series. When Enterprise officers (in order of billing) start being replaced by muppets as they explore the fiction-plane vortex, Gil goes to New York, stumbles onto Darrin and Samantha of Bewitched, and solves the situation when Tabitha (now 13) turns out to be doodling in her math book with a magic pencil - and she likes to draw her favorite tv characters as muppets. Amusing & well-written.

Mindy Glazer

"Equal Time" Dagger of the Mind, 1980, p.31-34: Feldman Series; Kirk has had about all he can take of Christmas and its equivalents among his religiously diverse crew, when a suggestion box appears. Entertaining.

Ken Gooch

"Rennox 4" Berengaria #1, Sept. 1973: More threatening aliens and silly technobabble.

"Galactic Crisis" Berengaria #3, July 1974: Dull space war claptrap; didn't read it all.

C. Michael Grande

"The Testing Time" R & R #10, Summer 1979 (p. 87-92): A rather trite "Arena" clone. The Romulans have declared open war, and the Overwatcher race challenges the Enterprise's bridge officers and their Romulan equivalents with a set of questions and the task of escape. Whichever side succeeds first, their peoples will be allowed to continue; those of the loser will be set back to Stone Age civilizations. Naturally, it takes both sides working together to escape, and universal peace follows.

Bonnie Guyan

[Edited Plak-Tow]
"Rape of a Rock" Plak-Tow #4, May 1980 (p. 11-45): [Reprinted from Nexus - unstated issue/date.]
Starfleet sacrifices Spock to the Klingon mind-sifter in trade for an ambassador. McCoy's farewell soliloquy to the shell that is left of Spock when they get him back triggers just enough memory recovery for Vulcan healers to do wonders, and Kirk and McCoy are pleasantly surprised months later to find a healthy (but memory-blank) Spock on Vulcan. The three go camping together. Spock is irritated by the others' demands on a friendship he cannot feel until he must nurse McCoy through the effects of an attack by a carnivorous plant, and that forced contact gives him considerable, though incomplete, memory recovery. Plot is generally good (marred a bit by an overly convenient ending entailing revenge on the Klingons and the handy death of Spock's replacement) and the characterization excellent. It could have used more editorial attention - oddly used vocabulary, lots of misspellings, etc. throw the reader out of the tale.

Laura Guyer

"A Matter of Friendship" DeForest Kelley Compendium, June 1991 (p.154-162): H/C. When McCoy is paralyzed, Kirk gives up Starfleet to take care of him. Story is marred by magic alien medicine that just happens to be on hand.

"Through Hell and High Water" DeForest Kelley Compendium Suppl #1, June 1992 (p.157-163): Kirk and McCoy crash in shuttle.


"Soliloquy" DeForest Kelley Compendium Suppl #1, June 1992 (p.164-167): McCoy's patients die of contaminated vaccine.

"Aftermath" DeForest Kelley Compendium Suppl #1, June 1992 (p.168-169): Post-Rura Pente, Spock retrieves McCoy from pneumonia.

"Captured!" DeForest Kelley Compendium Suppl #1, June 1992 (p.170-172): Kirk witnesses McCoy's execution.

"Judgment Call" DeForest Kelley Compendium Suppl #1, June 1992 (p.173-176): McCoy beaten up to get info from Kirk.

"Conspiracy" DeForest Kelley Compendium Suppl #2, June 1993 (p.94-97): Kirk is ordered to hold McCoy for court martial.