The Flaming Arrow

The Flaming Arrow

Author	Kathy Oltion and Jerry Oltion
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	Star Trek: New Earth Star Trek: The Original Series
Genre	Science fiction novel
Publisher	Pocket Books
Publication date	July 2000
Media type	Print (paperback)
Pages	283 pp
ISBN	0-671-78562-1
OCLC	44483302
LC Class	CPB Box no. 2018 vol. 7
Preceded by	Rough Trails
Followed by	Thin Air

The Flaming Arrow is a Star Trek: New Earth novel written by Kathy Oltion and Jerry Oltion.

Synopsis

Belle Terre is a new human colony set up on a vitally strategic new planet far from Federation space. Because of its distance from the Federation, the Enterprise, captained by, in order to secure their rights to the planet's valuable minerals.

Inspiration

In Voyages of Imagination, both Kathy Oltion and Jerry Oltion remarked on the idea behind the story: "We had to work within the constraints of the overarching six-book plot, but we had pretty much free rein to tell whatever story we wanted within that framework. We wanted something that fit the frontier motif, but still had the techie aspects of a Star Trek story. Since our book was number four out of six, we figured any parallel with North American history would put us at about the 'attack on the fort' phase, which led to the idea of flaming arrows, and from there it was a simple jump to laser beams, and from there to one great BIG laser beam. And since the Enterprise can travel faster than light, we had the ultimate ticking clock, and the rest of the story fell into place from there."^[1]

References

External links

• The Flaming Arrow at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)
• The Flaming Arrow title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database