The Slaver Weapon

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Contents 1 Introduction (blurb) 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 4 Appendices 4.1 Related stories 4.2 Timeline 4.3 Images 4.4 External links

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Another exciting episode from television's most popular science-fiction series

Complete in this volume

Slaver Weapon

A Slaver stasis box -- a relic of a fabulous, long-dead civilization -- is discovered on a remote planet. The Slavers died out millennia ago, but their powerful weapons have been well preserved in these boxes which are found throughout the Galaxy.

Whoever possesses such weapons controls a lot of power, and so Kirk and the crew want to get this one into secure hands as quickly as possible.

But they are not the only ones who have designs on the Slaver weapon... and the fate of the Federation hangs in the balance!

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[edit] Characters

Chuft Captain • Kumara • M'Viore • R'Leez • Spock • Hikaru Sulu • Nyota Uhura

[edit] Starships and vehicles

USS Enterprise (Constitution-class) • Copernicus (Federation shuttlecraft) • Traitor's Claw (Kzinti police vessel)

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Beta Lyrae system • Beta Lyrae • Starbase 25

[edit] Races and cultures

Human • Klingon • Kzinti • Slaver • Vulcan

[edit] States and organizations

Kzin Patriarchy • Starfleet • United Federation of Planets

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• This is the tenth and final of Alan Dean Foster's TAS adaptations which have been reprinted a number of times, often in omnibuses with other Star Trek Log books. Most recently in 2006 by Del Rey Books as part of Star Trek's 40th Anniversary celebrations. In fact this was also the first Star Trek Book published by Del Rey after it was created as an imprint of the publisher of the rest of the Star Trek Logs series Ballantine Books.
• The episode itself was adapted by Larry Niven from his 1967 story, "The Soft Weapon." The characters of Sulu, Uhura, and Spock replaced the characters from the original story, Jason and Anne-Marie Pompadou, and the Pierson's Puppeteer, Nessus. Also, there are a few other, minor differences from the short story to the episode.
• This book establishes some background on Nyota Uhura stating that traditional maturation rituals in United States of Africa were changed in 2055 so that women underwent them too.
• Federation Day is mentioned, as is the Federation Interstellar Anthem.
• The pill is stated to still existent in the 23rd century, taken monthly in capsule form.

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published order
Previous novelization: Log Nine	Star Trek Logs	Next novelization: Last in the series
Previous episode: The Time Trap	TAS episode produced	Next episode: The Ambergris Element
Previous episode: The Ambergris Element	TAS episode aired	Next episode: The Eye of the Beholder
chronological order
Previous Adventure: Bem	Pocket	Next Adventure: The Patient Parasites

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A Kzinti

[edit] External links

• The Slaver Weapon (episode) article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
• Star Trek Log 10 article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.