NOVEL
Troublesome Minds
Cover by Cliff Nielson
Attribution
Series:	The Original Series (Pocket TOS)
Author(s):	Dave Galanter
Publication information
Publisher:	Pocket Books
Published:	Paperback - June 2009
Pages:	384
ISBN:	1-4391-0155-8

Contents 1 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 External link

BlurbEdit

From the back cover

First contact becomes an interstellar incident when the Starship Enterprise™ responds to a distress call from an unknown ship and saves the life of a man left to die by his own people. Berlis, member of a telepathic species calling themselves the Isitri, claims not to know why those from his homeworld want him dead. Captain James T. Kirk wants to believe him, but the damage is done: the Enterprise can neither leave the stranger to die nor turn him over to those who would kill him.

Berlis seems harmless, but his people say he cannot live among them: his telepathy is so strong that their wills are subsumed to his. The same fear that compels the Isitri to seek the death of one of their own drives the neighboring Odib people toward genocide. For every time a "troublesome mind" dominates the Isitri, the Odib pay the price in their own blood.

With Spock becoming erratic under Berlis's influence, and the Isitri begging Kirk to allow them to destroy the man who threatens their existence, matters take a disastrous turn when Berlis makes his way back to Isitra...and an entire world falls to his whims.

SummaryEdit

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ReferencesEdit

CharactersEdit

Berlis Aknista • Bannatyan • Bithnush • Christine Chapel • Pavel Chekov • Chista • Cordell • Das-Dosiame • DeSalle • Epiltan • Golo • Gralow • Kenachin • James T. Kirk • John Kyle • Leonard McCoy • Meshu • Kevin Michaluk • Elizabeth Palmer • Prescott • Sa-Gahnesaam • Montgomery Scott • Sektu • Sentell • Sheh-Keshemger • Sketel • Spock • Hikaru Sulu • Totrostav • Nyota Uhura

Referenced only 

Cheshu • Zefram Cochrane • Eklan • Phillip Green • Juah • Kor • Onro • Stalin

Starships and vehiclesEdit

Copernicus • USS Enterprise • Newton

Referenced only 

B-29 Superfortress • USS Intrepid

LocationsEdit

Akawri • Isitra Colony First • Isitra Zero • Odib • Sao 533 • Zeta Tau Nu

Referenced only 

Dalinga Bektab • Organia • Russia • Vulcan

Races and culturesEdit

Human • Isitri • Odib • Vulcan

Referenced only 

Klingon • Melcotian • Rigelian • Romulan

States and organizationsEdit

Federation • Isitri Council • Odib High Congress

Referenced only 

Soviet Union • United States of America

OtherEdit

astronomical unit • disruptor cannon • Feinberg scanner • Impressionism • Jefferies tube • laser probe • mind meld • mind-ripper • nentizene • phaser • photon torpedo • plasma coolant • shield • telepathy • tractor beam • transporter • tricorder • "troublesome mind" • universal translator • World War II

AppendicesEdit

Related storiesEdit

TimelineEdit

Published Order
Previous comic: Sacrifices of War	TOS novels	Next comic: The Sorrows of Empire
Previous story: Shadows of the Indignant	Stories by: Dave Galanter	Next story: Most recent Star Trek work
Chronological Order
Previous adventure: To be placed	Memory Beta Chronology	Next adventure: To be placed

External linkEdit

• Troublesome Minds article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.