Exiles (TOS novel)

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For the TNG novel, please see Exiles (TNG novel).

Exiles is a Pocket TOS novel – the second novel in the Vulcan's Soul series – written by Josepha Sherman & Susan Shwartz. Published by Pocket Books, it was first released in hardback in June 2006.

Summary[]

From the book jacket: Tensions remain high as the United Federation of Planets, the Klingon Empire, and the Romulan Star Empire attempt to maintain their fragile post-Dominion War peace in the wake of the brutal attack by the mysterious Watraii that ended with the loss of Admiral Pavel Chekov. When Admiral Uhura receives intelligence regarding a Watraii base that may contain more than one surprise, she sends Ambassador Spock, Captain Saavik, Ruanek, Captain Montgomery Scott, and Lieutenant Commander Data on a covert mission to learn its secrets…

But the true secrets of the Watraii have their basis millennia in the past. In the time of Surak, Vulcans were at a crossroads, on the cusp of either embracing logic or succumbing to emotion and destroying themselves. With Surak's blessing, a group of Vulcans left their turbulent homeworld to find their destiny among the stars – but the stars prove themselves even more unforgiving than the sands of Vulcan's deserts, as Karatek, the reluctant leader of the exiles, must struggle to hold the community together.

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Background information[]

Authors Sherman and Shwartz divided the novel's eras between them; Shwartz tackling the historical storyline, and Sherman the contemporary plot. Shwartz noted that she "was asked to follow Diane Duane and Peter Morwood in The Romulan Way as closely as [she] could" in tackling the Vulcan disapora. (Voyages of Imagination, p. 144)
An unabridged audiobook of the novel was produced by Recorded Books; no Simon & Schuster Audio release was produced, despite the first novel in the trilogy being adapted.

Cover gallery[]

Characters[]

Spock

References[]

Dominion War; Romulus; Surak; Vulcan; Vulcan (planet)

External link[]

Exiles at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works

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