The Final Truth

Real World article
(written from a Production point of view)

Prisoners of a powerful secret – FOR LIFE!

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

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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