Double, Double

Captain Kirk's deadliest enemy returns…

Double, Double is a Pocket TOS novel – #45 in the numbered series – written by Michael Jan Friedman. Published by Pocket Books, it was first released in April 1989.

Summary

From the book jacket

On a routine exploratory mission, the Starship USS Hood picks up a distress signal from a research expedition thought lost long ago – the expedition of Dr. Roger Korby, one of the centuries' greatest scientific minds. Korby himself is dead, it seems, but his colleagues have made a most incredible discovery – a discovery they insist the Hood's captain see for himself. Reluctantly, the captain agrees to beam down…

Meanwhile, the crew of the USS Enterprise begins long-overdue shore leave on Tranquility Seven. James T. Kirk is looking forward to a few days of rest and relaxation… until what seems like a bizarre case of mistaken identity plunges Kirk into a whirlpool of mayhem and murder.

And puts an inhuman stranger with his memories and abilities in command of the Enterprise.

Background information

• A sequel to TOS: "What Are Little Girls Made Of?"
• Michael Jan Friedman's first Star Trek novel.

Characters

James T. Kirk

Captain : USS Enterprise

James T. Kirk android

Spock

Leonard McCoy

Montgomery Scott

Hikaru Sulu

Pavel Chekov

Christine Chapel

Nyota Uhura

Brown

A new version of the original Brown android.

Joaquin Martinez / android

Captain : USS Hood

Jamal Banks / android

Science Officer : USS Hood

Commander Stuart / android

First Officer : USS Hood

Gauri Vedra

Chief Engineer : USS Hood

Kai Chin

Chief Medical Officer : USS Hood

Alan Paultic

Communications Officer : USS Hood

Donald Clifford

Crewman : USS Enterprise

Denise DeLong

Engineer : USS Enterprise

K'leb

Planet T'nufo native.

References

Enterprise, USS; Hood, USS; Korby, Roger; Tranquility VII

External links

• Double, Double at Wikipedia
• Double, Double at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
• Double, Double at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database