Ishmael (Star Trek, Book 23) [School & Library Binding]

Barbara Hambly (Author)

Book Description

Series: Star Trek (Numbered Hardcover) | Publication Date: May 1985

The U.S.S. Enterprise™ is on a peaceful mission at Starbase 12 when a bizarre cosmic phenomenon causes a Klingon ship to suddenly vanish -- with Spock aboard for the ride. Spock's last message from the Klingon ship is cryptic and frightening. The Klingons are traveling into the past, searching for the one man who holds the key to the furure. If they can kill that man, the course of history will be changed -- and the Federation will be destroyed!

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The Enterprise^TM is on a peaceful mission at Starbase 12, and Spock is visiting aboard a Klingon vessel, when a mysterious phenomenon causes the Klingon ship to vanish. Spock's last message from the ship is cryptic, but frightening. It suggests that the Klingons are traveling into the past, hoping to kill one man who was decisive in the course of history, and thereby change it, destroying the Federation before it was born. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• School & Library Binding: 255 pages
• Publisher: Topeka Bindery (May 1985)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0785747117
• ISBN-13: 978-0785747116
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,483,746 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Bluest Skies You've Ever Seen...., July 17, 2001

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Queen Cobra, Goddess of Truth and Justice (Altamont Springs, Florida United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ishmael (Star Trek, No 23) (Mass Market Paperback)

A Star Trek/Here Comes The Brides crossover? Yet believe it or not it works. The Klingons are trying to change Earth's history which is how an amnesiac Spock finds himself in 1800s Seattle posing as the nephew of Aaron Stemple, (the 'Ishmael' of the title). Meanwhile back in the twenty-third century Kirk, McCoy and the rest of the crew wade through tons of old records to locate Spock *and* the Klingons - eventually arriving just after the nick of time but before it's too late. The real fun is trying to identify all the walk-throughs: The scruffy looking space pilot and the two brown uniformed men from some refugee fleet; the fancy gambler and the two cowhands from Virginia city; the chess playing man at the San Francisco Hotel; the shabby little man with the flute and the pretty female companion....

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Two Paramount properties for the price of one, December 29, 2000

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Rebecca L. Tushnet (Washington, DC USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ishmael (Star Trek, No 23) (Mass Market Paperback)

Okay, I've never seen the other show. And to a certain extent Paramount has abandoned the "Klingons" who show up in this book, much as they abandoned the Klingons of John M. Ford's "The Final Reflection" and the Romulans/Rihannsu of Diane Duane. (The Klingons gained honor and the Romulans lost it, as far as I can tell.) But if your first introduction to Klingons was the Original Series, this story uses them well and delivers a rollicking story in the grand old tradition.

The other reviewers have mentioned amnesiac Spock, but one of the great pleasures of this book is the people left behind, struggling to find him. Kirk, McCoy, even Uhura and Sulu are all exactly as we wish them to be. This is one of the top five Star Trek tie-ins for any of the series.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Klingon gunslingers?, December 12, 2001

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Chadwick H. Saxelid "Bookworm" (Concord, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ishmael (Star Trek, No 23) (Mass Market Paperback)

This book's got 'em, and a lot more. Mr. Spock gets zapped back in time to the founding of Seattle, Washington, where the Klingons plan on assassinating someone who has great importance in the forming of future events. Too bad the jolt has given the Vulcan amnesia. As Kirk and crew search for their missing Science Officer, Spock tries to fit into an alien world he has no idea is truly alien to him. Hambly has great fun with the silly premise (letting Spock rub elbows with some actual historic characters, including San Francisco's adopted Emperor, is a real nice touch) and makes for an entertaining time waster. Recommended.