NOVEL
The Entropy Effect
2006 reprint cover
Attribution
Series:	The Original Series, No. 2
Author(s):	Vonda N. McIntyre
Narrator(s):	Leonard Nimoy & George Takei
Publication information
Publisher:	Pocket Books
Published:	Paperback - June 1981
Reprint(s):	Paperback - January 1984 January 1990 September 2006
Pages:	224
ISBN:	(1981) ISBN 0671622293 (1984) ISBN 0839828314 (1990) ISBN 0671724169 (2006) ISBN 1416524649
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.

Contents 1 Introduction 2 Summary 3 References 3.1 Characters 3.2 Starships and vehicles 3.3 Locations 3.4 Races and cultures 3.5 States and organizations 3.6 Other references 4 Appendices 4.1 Connections 4.2 External link

IntroductionEdit

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.

SummaryEdit

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ReferencesEdit

CharactersEdit

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 • Lewis Carroll • 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 vehiclesEdit

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

LocationsEdit

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

Races and culturesEdit

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

States and organizationsEdit

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

Other referencesEdit

Academy Star • anachronistic event • Ancient Modern English • android • armchair • Astronomical unit • Babel-17 • beard • 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 • moustache • 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 • frenzy • yogi

AppendicesEdit

• The Simon and Schuster Audioworks box art for the audio adaptation of this novel uses the cover of Triangle (ie. just Kirk/Spock) - because the author trimmed out her entire Sulu subplot to make her story fit onto a 90 min. tape.

ConnectionsEdit

published order
Previous novel: Star Trek: The Motion Picture\	TOS numbered novels	Next novel: The Klingon Gambit
chronological order
Previous Adventure: The Final Nexus	Pocket	Next Adventure: The Final Reflection
The above chronology placements are based on the primary placement in 2270. The Pocket Books Timeline places events from this story in one other timeframe:
Previous Adventure: Sarek Chapter 12	2250 Chapter 1, Section 12	Next Adventure: Voyage to Adventure Time travel

External linkEdit

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