''Vulcan!'' (1978) is a ''

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'' tie-in novel by Kathleen Sky. The book is an adaptation of an unproduced spec script by Sky.

Production

Kathleen Sky submitted a spec script to the producers ''Star Trek'' during the production the show's third season. She was informed the script might be produced the following season. However, the series was cancelled late in the third season's production. Editors at

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recruited Sky to contribute a ''Star Trek'' tie-in novel sometime after 1976. She opted to adapt her unproduced script. David Gerrold, the writer of the episode " The Trouble with Tribbles", wrote a foreword to the novel. Sky's husband,

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, also wrote the tie-in novel '' Trek to Madworld'', also published by Bantam. As of 2008, a first edition copy of ''Vulcan!'' was valued up to .

Plot summary

Ion storms have caused the boundaries of the Neutral Zone between the

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and

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s to shift. The planet Arachne IV, inhabited by a strange ant-like race, could be lost to the Federation due to the changes in space. However,

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goes on a death-defying assignment into a war of ant-like creatures along with a scientist who dislikes

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Reception

A bibliographic note in the December 1979 edition of ''Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Review'' explained that "Sky ascribes more emotion to Spock than is logical under the circumstances f the plot.

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