Strangers from the Sky (Q7621604)

Some years before, I’d been loitering in Forbidden Planet, then the quintessential SF bookstore in Lower Manhattan, when I came across a big ol’ trade paperback entitled The Star Trek Space Flight Chronology, written by Stanley and Fred Goldstein, and illustrated by Rick Sternbach, in the same era as those indispensable volumes for the serious Star Trek fan, Bjo Trimble’s Star Trek Concordance, Franz Joseph’s Star Fleet Technical Manual, The Star Fleet Medical Reference Manual (Eileen Palestine, editor), and my particular favorite, Allan Asherman’s Star Trek Compendium. One entry in the Chronology grabbed my attention. It was about the crew of an Earth ship helping to repair a disabled Vulcan scoutcraft trapped in the Sol system and sending it on its way home in the year 2045, even though the official First Contact between Earth and Vulcan according to the Chronology did not take place until twenty years later. (English)

Spaceflight Chronology

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Some years before, I’d been loitering in Forbidden Planet, then the quintessential SF bookstore in Lower Manhattan, when I came across a big ol’ trade paperback entitled The Star Trek Space Flight Chronology, written by Stanley and Fred Goldstein, and illustrated by Rick Sternbach, in the same era as those indispensable volumes for the serious Star Trek fan, Bjo Trimble’s Star Trek Concordance, Franz Joseph’s Star Fleet Technical Manual, The Star Fleet Medical Reference Manual (Eileen Palestine, editor), and my particular favorite, Allan Asherman’s Star Trek Compendium. One entry in the Chronology grabbed my attention. It was about the crew of an Earth ship helping to repair a disabled Vulcan scoutcraft trapped in the Sol system and sending it on its way home in the year 2045, even though the official First Contact between Earth and Vulcan according to the Chronology did not take place until twenty years later. (English)

Star Trek Concordance

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Some years before, I’d been loitering in Forbidden Planet, then the quintessential SF bookstore in Lower Manhattan, when I came across a big ol’ trade paperback entitled The Star Trek Space Flight Chronology, written by Stanley and Fred Goldstein, and illustrated by Rick Sternbach, in the same era as those indispensable volumes for the serious Star Trek fan, Bjo Trimble’s Star Trek Concordance, Franz Joseph’s Star Fleet Technical Manual, The Star Fleet Medical Reference Manual (Eileen Palestine, editor), and my particular favorite, Allan Asherman’s Star Trek Compendium. One entry in the Chronology grabbed my attention. It was about the crew of an Earth ship helping to repair a disabled Vulcan scoutcraft trapped in the Sol system and sending it on its way home in the year 2045, even though the official First Contact between Earth and Vulcan according to the Chronology did not take place until twenty years later. (English)

Star Fleet Medical Reference Manual

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Some years before, I’d been loitering in Forbidden Planet, then the quintessential SF bookstore in Lower Manhattan, when I came across a big ol’ trade paperback entitled The Star Trek Space Flight Chronology, written by Stanley and Fred Goldstein, and illustrated by Rick Sternbach, in the same era as those indispensable volumes for the serious Star Trek fan, Bjo Trimble’s Star Trek Concordance, Franz Joseph’s Star Fleet Technical Manual, The Star Fleet Medical Reference Manual (Eileen Palestine, editor), and my particular favorite, Allan Asherman’s Star Trek Compendium. One entry in the Chronology grabbed my attention. It was about the crew of an Earth ship helping to repair a disabled Vulcan scoutcraft trapped in the Sol system and sending it on its way home in the year 2045, even though the official First Contact between Earth and Vulcan according to the Chronology did not take place until twenty years later. (English)

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