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An untold story from The Eugenics Wars!
The Aliens Are Coming! is a Pocket TOS eBook, written by Dayton Ward. Published by Pocket Books, it was released in June 2002 as a tie-in to the Star Trek: The Eugenics Wars series.
Summary[]
- From the book jacket
- 1969: Captain John Christopher of the U.S. Air Force has just returned from a most peculiar mission to investigate a UFO sighting. But even though the mission took only a few minutes, the captain has vague memory flashes of futuristic Humans, a pointy-eared alien named Spock, and a ship called the USS Enterprise...
- Government agent James Wainwright has waited for this fateful day ever since he encountered the conquering Ferengi Marauders Quark, Rom, and Nog in Roswell in 1947. Now he will stop at nothing to use Captain Christopher's secret knowledge to bring his campaign to defend Earth against alien attack to the forefront once again!
- A dramatic sequel to classic Star Trek episodes from two generations by the critically acclaimed author of In the Name of Honor!
- Excerpts of copyrighted sources are included for review purposes only, without any intention of infringement.
Background information[]
- This eBook was a reprint of the short story originally published as part of the Strange New Worlds III anthology.
- The concepts in the story were further explored by Ward in his novels From History's Shadow, Elusive Salvation, and Hearts and Minds.
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External link[]
- The Aliens Are Coming! at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works