NOVEL
The Children of Kings
Attribution
Series:	The Original Series
Author(s):	Dave Stern
Publication information
Publisher:	Pocket Books
Published:	Paperback - May 2010
ISBN:	ISBN 1439158991
Chronology
Date:	2251

The Children of Kings is a Star Trek: The Original Series novel by Dave Stern published by Pocket Books in 2010. The novel features the Orion Syndicate and the USS Enterprise crew under Captain Christopher Pike.

Contents 1 Publisher's 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 Science and technology 3.7 Ranks and titles 3.8 Other references 4 Timeline 4.1 Chronology 4.2 Production history 5 Appendices 5.1 Related stories 5.2 External link

Publisher's descriptionEdit

From the back cover

A distress call goes out from a Federation outpost near the Klingon border. The U.S.S. Enterprise, under the command of Captain Christopher Pike, responds. Starbase 18 lies in ruin. There are no survivors. And there is no clue as to who is responsible for the attack, until Captain Pike’s brilliant science officer discovers a means of retrieving parts of the station’s log. Lieutenant Spock has detected signs of a unique energy signature, one that he believes is Klingon. There are unsubstantiated reports that the Klingon Empire has made a technological leap forward and created a cloaking device—code-named Black Snow Seven—that can shield their ships from even the most advanced sensors. The destruction of the base and the unique energy signature that remains prove that the Empire has succeeded.

For generations the Orions have been known as pirates, operating at the margins, outside of legal conventions. A proud and powerful race, the Orions were once a major force in the sector, and they have been using the tension between the Klingon Empire and the Federation to rebuild their power. Captain Pike is charged with trying to foster cooperation between the Orions and the Federation. A distress call from an Orion vessel offers him the perfect opportunity. But the Orion ship lies in disputed space long claimed by the Klingon Empire, and crossing it could be the spark that sets off an interstellar war.

SummaryEdit

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ReferencesEdit

CharactersEdit

Philip Boyce • Cadan • Kax Chelubi • Collins • Colt • Andreas Corzine • Deleen • Garrison • Greekang • Gurgis • Hardin • Michaela Harrari • Rafael Higueras • Hoto • Roger Korby • K'Zon • Liyan • M'Lor • Nee'An • Neema • Noguchi • Number One • Petri • Christopher Pike • Glenn Pitcairn • Radovitch • Ross • Smith • Spock • T'Koss • Benjamin Tuval • José Tyler • Vaya • Carl Vayentes • Dmitri Vlasidovich • Zandar • Starbase 18 personnel

Referenced only 

Adai • Argost • Bennett • Boren • Cauley • Chapel • Richard Daystrom • Debausset • Finch • Gozen • • Heythum • Hudek • Janoth • Kahless • K'rgon • Kritos • Leighton • Madragas • Ferdinand Magellan • Marriyan • Melliver • Munya • Tomas Nieldstrom • Patrice Njomo • Nolan • Mark Piper • Pranang • Reilly • Solkar • Staton • Loman Stocker • Surak • Conn Tambor • Ugaro • Jaya Wandruska • Yang

Starships and vehiclesEdit

USS Enterprise • IKS Hexar • Karkon's Wing • Magellan • Osler

Referenced only 

USS Excalibur • USS Hood • USS Lexington • USS Olympus • USS Orpheus • USS Potemkin • IKS Torg

Ship classifications

battle cruiser • heavy cruiser • light cruiser • Marauder-class • NX-class • Orion fighter • shuttlecraft • Warbird-class

LocationsEdit

55 Hamilton • Adelson cloud • Borderland • Hamilton system

Shipboard locations

airlock • bridge (command chair, helm console, records station, science station) • briefing room • brig • crew quarters (Number One's, Pitcairn's) • docking bay • primary hull • mess • saucer section • shuttlebay 2 • sickbay • torpedo control

Referenced only 

Alpha Centauri • Alpha Quadrant • Argelius • Bozeman • British Isles • Earth • Gorengar • Illyria • Illyrian colonies • Kados V • Kitulba • Kronos • Malboundian • Mobile 7 • Narendra • Nova Vestroia • Optho III • Pelar • Phalanx • Rhinos V • Russia • Salazar V • San Francisco • Shi'Kahr • Stannos IV • Starbase 18 • Utopia Planetia yards • Zai Romeen

Races and culturesEdit

Asian • Australian • British • Caju • Codruta • Human • Klingon • Orion • Tellarite • Vulcan

Referenced only 

Airee • Andorian • Dohelee • Dorelian • Dourami • Dunbarri • Ferengi • Huni • Romulan • Singhino • T'landra

States and organizationsEdit

Federation • Federation Council • Ferengi Commerce Authority • Hazard Mining Confederacy • Illyrian Cultural Academy • Klingon Empire • Klingon High Command • Orion Syndicate • Starfleet • Starfleet Academy • Starfleet Archives • Starfleet Command • Starfleet Headquarters • Starfleet Intelligence • Trade Confederacy • Vulcan High Command • Vulcan Science Academy

Science and technologyEdit

Alpha class power core • alveoli • animal • asteroid • "Black Snow Seven" • blood • cell • bronchial shunt • cloaking device • communicator • computer • data buffer • Dezzla's syndrome • diagnostic bed • DNA • duranite • duranium • environmental systems • flimsy • gamina • gravity • hypospray • klick • knife • kreelite ore • LeKarz sequencer • lung • materializer • medical database • medikit • molecule • nebula • oxygen • phaser • pheromone • plant • plastiform • projector • propulsion system • prosthetic implant • REC • regen gel • regen therapy • Second Empire • sensor • shield • skin • spacedock • sublight • subspace amplifier • sword • transporter • tricorder • warp drive • warp factor • weapon • xenobiology

Ranks and titlesEdit

admiral • ambassador • captain • chief engineer • chief minister • commander • commodore • communications officer • communications specialist • crewman • doctor • engineer • ensign • first officer • general • lieutenant • medical chief • physician • science officer • security chief • sentry • tactical officer • tallith • technician • yeoman

Other referencesEdit

annakh • Awakening • Battle of Akana • coffee • cooties • court martial • distress signal • Doerge • dress uniform • "Earther" • English language • field ration • firewine • fountain of youth • Hippocratic Oath • kronner • maintenance log • mythology • Odyssey • orbit • outpost • personal log • personnel transfer • soup • starbase • Starfleet uniform • station log • tadeesh • tea • transport manifest • Treaty of Gorengar • yellow alert

TimelineEdit

ChronologyEdit

Chronological Order
Previous adventure: Cadet Kirk	Memory Beta Chronology	Next adventure: Republic (Chapters 5-20)
The above chronology placements are based on the primary placement in 2251. The Memory Beta Chronology places events from this story in 2 other timeframe(s):
Previous adventure: Burning Dreams (Chapters 4 & 5)	2230	Next adventure: Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (Chapter 14)
Previous adventure: Final Frontier "Hope and a Common Future"	2251	Next Pocket adventure: Cadet Kirk Next MB adventure: "Flesh of My Flesh" (Flashback)

2176

Liyan discovers a small craft from the age of the Second Empire in orbit of planet Zai Romeen. Aboard is a powerful image projector and a serum which extends life.

2227

Doctor Philip Boyce arrives on Argelius in order to assist in a research project to restore life to a radioactive wasteland. Over the next seven years, Boyce decodes the genomes and animal and plant DNA and brings the continent to life. By the end of his time on Argelius, several settlements have been established on the newly fertile land.

2228

Hoto is born.

2230

Three years into his mission on Argelius, Boyce encounters a young Argelian girl named Jaya. He quickly adopts the girl.

2234

Boyce leaves Argelius.

2240

Number One graduates first in her class at the Illyrian Cultural Academy.

2251

Commander Christopher Pike fights the Klingons at Gorengar. Two weeks later, Pike offered up his resignation from Starfleet. Two weeks later, Pike is called in to speak to Admiral Noguchi and offered command of the USS Enterprise, on a five-year mission of exploration.

Three months into the five-year mission, the Enterprise, under Pike's command, responds to a distress call from Starbase 18.

Production historyEdit

Published Order
Previous novel: Unspoken Truth	TOS novels	Next novel: The Rings of Time
Previous story: "Nobunaga"	Stories by: Dave Stern	Next story: Most recent Star Trek story

• 2010, May, first published in mass market paperback by Pocket Books.

AppendicesEdit

Added by 8of5

• When the book was first announced it was titled To Thine Own Self. The Simon & Schuster Spring 2010 catalogue used this earlier title along with preliminary cover art, featuring two Orion slave girls, in addition to Pike and Spock, who remain on the final cover.

Related storiesEdit

Stories featuring Christopher Pike
Comics	Early Voyages	"Flesh of My Flesh" • "The Fires of Pharos" • "Our Dearest Blood" • "Nor Iron Bars a Cage" • Cloak and Dagger (1 • 2) • "The Flat, Gold Forever" • "Immortal Wounds" • "One of a Kind" • The Fallen (1 • 2) • "Futures, Part One" • "Future Tense" • "Futures" • "Now and Then" • "Thanatos" • "Nemesis"
	other	"All Those Years Ago..." • "To Walk the Night" • "Door in the Cage" • "Return to the Forbidden Planet" • "A Prelude to War" • "Alien Spotlight: Vulcans" • "Alien Spotlight: Orions" • Mirror Images (1 • 2 • 4 • 5) • "Shadows of the Past" • "The Ends of Eternity" • "Spock: Reflections, Issue 2" • Star Trek Movie Adaptation (2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6) • "Captain's Log: Pike"
Novels		Enterprise: The First Adventure • Vulcan's Glory • Legacy • The Rift • Where Sea Meets Sky • Burning Dreams • "A Less Perfect Union" • The Children of Kings
Short stories		"Conflicting Natures" • "A Private Anecdote" • "Sins of the Mother" • "The Greater Good"
Episodes		"The Cage" • "The Menagerie"	Movie	Star Trek

External linkEdit

• The Children of Kings article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.