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Prisoners of a powerful secret – FOR LIFE!
Contents
Background information
- This story would be reprinted in Enterprise Log 4 and a later reprint of that volume from the Star Trek: The Key Collection series.
Creators
- Based on Star Trek created by Gene Roddenberry
- Writer: John David Warner
- Artist: Alberto Giolitti
Characters
- Canon characters listed below are linked to the main article about them. Non-canon characters are not linked, but those that recurred, appearing or being mentioned in more than one story, are defined further in Gold Key TOS characters.
Regular and recurring

Enterprise senior staff.
- James T. Kirk
- Enterprise captain.
- Spock
- Vulcan Enterprise exec and science officer.
- Leonard McCoy
- Enterprise chief medical officer.
- Montgomery Scott
- Enterprise chief engineer.
- Uhura
- Enterprise communications officer.
- Pavel Chekov
- Enterprise officer.
- Christine Chapel
- Enterprise nurse. On the cover, Chapel inexplicably wears an operations division red uniform.
- Manning
- Enterprise security crewman in the Galileo landing party. Manning had previously appeared in "The Perfect Dream".
Others
- Tailen Kahn (β)
- Administrative Starfleet admiral. Kahn did not wear a recognizable Starfleet uniform, but was specified to be an admiral. As an administrator, it is possible that Kahn would wear an operations division red uniform, as did Administrative Commodore Stocker.
- T'oell (β)
- The Quodarian Secretary of Affairs.
- Arama (β)
- Leader of the Quodarians.
- Tonar (β)
- Science Lord of Chantil.
References
- Galileo
- Enterprise shuttle.
- Quodar (β)
- A planet.
- Tristas (β)
- A neighboring planet.
- Chantil (β)
- A city on Tristas.
- dilithium
- Source of the crystals that help power warp drives.
External link
- The Final Truth at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
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