Spock Must Die!

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Spock Must Die! (ISBN 0-553-24634-8) is a Star Trek novel by James Blish released in 1970. It was published by Bantam Books. It is notable as the first original novel aimed at adult readers to be based upon the Star Trek franchise, and first of hundreds of such novels to be published over the next 36 years.

Blish also was writing an ongoing series of novelizations of Star Trek episodes.

[edit] Plot

Captain Kirk and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise find themselves in the middle of a war with the Klingon Empire. The Organians should be consulted about the war, but their entire planet has disappeared; it may have been destroyed.

Scotty has figured out a way to use tachyons to get a "copy" of Mr. Spock to Organia faster, without having to travel through Klingon space to inform the all-powerful beings who live there, but something has gone terribly wrong: There are now two Mr. Spocks. Eventually, one of them turns out to be an evil saboteur and has to be destroyed... but which one?

The novel is notable for an elementary public exposure of tachyon theory.

For a similar duplication of Captain Kirk, see The Enemy Within (TOS episode).