We have revisited many novels in the Pocket Universe of Star Trek about which Rob and Butch remember very little from their first time reading them forty-or-so years ago. But today's novel is one that both Butch and Rob remember pretty well, and found that they still enjoyed it quite a lot. Ah, the bittersweet tinge of nostalgia.

Written by Brad Ferguson (his first of two TOS novels for Pocket Books, though the second falls outside of the first 50), "Crisis on Centaurus" was published in March 1986, so we might have picked it up at the Waldenbooks at the mall on the first time we drove a car to the mall rather than rode our 10-speeds. It tells the story of a terror attack on Earth's closest celestial neighbor, Centaurus, which is part of the Alpha Centauri-Beta Centauri-Proxima Centauri trinary star system. Turns out that is where Kirk and Bones first met, where Kirk owns the property he plans to someday retire to, and is the current assignment of McCoy's daughter, Joanna... a character that (in script form if not on screen) goes back to the TOS television series!

Come listen to Butch and Rob wax nostalgic during today's mission report!