To: "'trekcreative{at}yahoogroups.com'" 
From: "Hailey, Jay"

Reply-To: trekcreative{at}yahoogroups.com

> I must have missed those... what are the "Phoenix" books?

> -Michael Gray

From the original Bantam Trek books, Circa 1975 or so.  Two megafans name
Marshak and Culbreath wrote of a supervillain named Black Omne who hated
the Federation for being too white bread and to western,  and Kirk in
particular for being the epitome of the Federation.

Black Omne developed a super transporter that could operate at unheard of
ranges under impossible conditions, and allowed Black Omne to copy and edit
transporter patterns. Once he has Spock's and Kirk patterns he couls step
thorough the transporter and emerge with all of their knowledge and skill
on top of his own, as well as being so close a duplicate no known
technology could tell the difference.

The first one was Price of the Phoenix and the second one was Fate of the
Phoenix.  These are the source of the quotation Joe referenced. "A
difference that makes no difference is no difference."

There was a heavy under current of Slash and S&M in the phoenix books,
mixed in with liberal Hate-the-dead-white-guys politics and a ton of stuff.

They sucked.  Marshak anc Culbreath wrote a handful of Trek novels into the
early 1980s.  Then they disappeared and I cannot tell whatever happened to
them.

Jay ~Meow!~

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