NOVEL
The Vulcan Academy Murders
Attribution
Series:	The Original Series, No. 20
Author(s):	Jean Lorrah
Publication information
Published:	paperback - November 1984
Pages:	280
ISBN:	ISBN 0671500546
Chronology
Date:	2267

Contents 1 Description 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 Inconsistencies 4.2 Background 4.3 Connections 4.4 External link

DescriptionEdit

Kirk and McCoy accompany Spock to the Vulcan Academy Hospital, seeking experimental treatment for a badly wounded Enterprise crew member.

Spock's mother is also a patient in the hospital, and Kirk soon becomes involved in the complex drama of Spock's family.

Suddenly, patients are dying, and Kirk suspects the unthinkable—murder on Vulcan! But can he convince the Vulcans that something as illogical as murder as possible? Until the killer is caught, everyone is in danger!

SummaryEdit

The Enterprise is involved in a skirmish with the Klingons in disputed space, which leaves a crewmember, Remington, paralyzed. Spock reveals a treatment that could save him has recently been developed by Vulcan scientist Sorel and human Daniel Corrigan: The patient is placed in stasis, allowing the body to regenerate itself. Spock's mother Amanda is currently undergoing the procedure.

Kirk, Spock and McCoy take Remington to Vulcan to undergo the process. However, power failures deactivate the chambers containing Remington and Sorel's wife T'Zan, killing them. Kirk realises the failures were the result of deliberate sabotage and therefore murder. An attempt to track which computer was used to sabotage the process is foiled when the murderer overloads the memory banks, inadvertently starting a fire that is only just brought under control.

When Sorel's daughter T'Mir is bonded to Corrigan, her suitor Sendet goes mad with jealousy and attacks Corrigan, trying to sever the telepathic bond between the couple. His alibi for the murders is revealed to be false but when he undergoes a Verification ceremony to determine the truth, it is discovered that, although he is a member of a renegade organisation hoping to return Vulcan to its warlike past, he is not the murderer. Sendet and his associates are allowed to leave Vulcan for another planet.

The real murderer is Eleyna Miller, Sarek's assistant who has become obsessed with him and is trying to kill Amanda. She takes Kirk into the desert, supposedly for a romantic assignation, then pushes him from a low ledge and leaves him for dead. Fortunately, he survives until McCoy finds him. Eleyna then tries to kill Amanda by programming the stasis chamber to revive her too early. She is saved by Spock and Sarek, who join her in a family mind meld to bring her body to full consciousness. Eleyna is taken into custody to undergo psychiatric treatment.

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ReferencesEdit

CharactersEdit

James T. Kirk • Spock • Leonard McCoy • Montgomery Scott • Hikaru Sulu • Pavel Chekov • Sarek • Amanda Grayson • Jabilo M'Benga • Daniel Corrigan • Grogan • Jakorski • Livinger • M'Gura • Eleyna Miller • Carl Remington • Rosen • Sendet • Sorel • Soton • Stevens • Storn • Surak • T'Mir • T'Par • T'Pau • T'Sia • T'Vet • T'Zan • Watson • Zarn

Referenced only 

William Shakespeare

Starships and vehiclesEdit

USS Enterprise (Constitution-class) • unnamed Klingon warship

LocationsEdit

Vulcan • Llangon Mountains • ShiKahr • Shrine of T'Vet • T'Kuht • Vulcan Science Academy Hospital

Referenced only 

Babel

Races and culturesEdit

Andorian • Dorkasi • Hemanite • Human • Lemnorian • Vulcan

States and organizationsEdit

Starfleet • United Federation of Planets • Followers of T'Vet • Vulcan Science Academy • Vulcan Space Central

Referenced only 

Masters of Gol • Starfleet Academy

Other referencesEdit

Andorian pizza • auxiliary control • brandy • command chair • degenerative xenosis • Hamlet • healer • heart • ion storm • kasa juice • kahs-wan • Kolinahr • koon-ut-kal-if-fee • kreyla • latium • le-matya • lytherette • mind meld • photon torpedo • Rigellian wine • sickbay • sonic shower • stasis • Tellarite linguini • traxadine • turbolift • verification • viewscreen

AppendicesEdit

InconsistenciesEdit

• The novel states that it was nearly two years since Spock had last visited Vulcan, as seen in TOS episode: "Amok Time" (most other sources place those events only a few months earlier).

BackgroundEdit

• The IDIC Epidemic is a sequel to this novel.
• Uhura does not appear in this novel.

ConnectionsEdit

published order
Previous novel: The Tears of the Singers	TOS numbered novels	Next novel: Uhura's Song
chronological order
Previous Adventure: To Reign in Hell: The Exile of Khan Noonien Singh Chapters 12-13	Pocket	Next Adventure: The IDIC Epidemic
Previous Adventure: Federation	Voyages of the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) (2264 to 2270)	Next Adventure: The IDIC Epidemic

External linkEdit

• The Vulcan Academy Murders article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.