Ishmael (Star Trek)
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Barbara Hambly's novel Ishmael is a novel set in the Star Trek fictional universe.
Spock travels back to the time and place of Here Come the Brides. Here Come the Brides was a television program that aired on the ABC television network from 1968 to 1970. It was loosely based upon the Mercer Girls, Asa Mercer's efforts to bring civilization to old Seattle by importing marriageable women from the war-ravaged East Coast of the United States.
The show's premise was that eldest brother Jason Bolt (played by Robert Brown, who starred in the Star Trek episode The Alternative Factor) bet his entire logging operation that he could persuade one hundred marriageable ladies to come to Seattle and stay for a full year. Much of the dramatic and comic tension revolved around the efforts of their benefactor Aaron Stempel (played by Mark Lenard, Sarek in Star Trek) to thwart the deal and take control of the Bolts' holdings.
Spock discovers a Klingon plot to destroy the Federation by killing Stempel (spelled Stemple in the book) before Stemple could thwart an attempted 19th-century alien invasion of Earth. During most of the story, Spock has lost his memory and is cared for by Stempel, who passes him off as his nephew "Ishmael" and helps him hide his alien origins. At the end of the story, Spock discovers that Stempel is one of his mother's ancestors, which ties in nicely with Mark Lenard playing both Stempel and Spock's father, Sarek.
