Crucible: Kirk (24 page)

The three volumes of the
Crucible
trilogy—
Provenance of Shadows, The Fire and the Rose,
and
The Star to Every Wandering
—mark the first ventures by David R. George III into
Star Trek
's Original Series. He has previously contributed a television story, four novels, and a novella to the
Trek
universe. He cowrote the story for the first-season
Voyager
episode “Prime Factors,” which deals with the consequences of the crew having to face the noninterference directive of an alien race, and which was nominated for a
Sci-Fi Universe
Award in the category “Best Writing in a Genre Television Show or Telefilm.” With Armin Shimerman, he wrote the
Deep Space Nine
novel
The 34th Rule,
a serious tale of Ferengi machinations, racism, and war between the Alliance and Bajor. He also penned two other
DSN
novels,
Twilight
and
Olympus Descending,
both set after the final episode of the series (the latter work appears in the book
Worlds of Deep Space Nine, Volume Three
). Additionally, he wrote a
Lost Era
novel,
Serpents Among the Ruins,
featuring Captain John Harriman and First Officer Demora Sulu of the
Enterprise
-B, which tells the story of the Tomed Incident. Finally, he authored the novella
Iron and Sacrifice,
another Demora Sulu yarn, this one contained in the
Tales from the Captain's Table
anthology. David's books have appeared on both the
USA Today
and
New York Times
bestseller lists.

A native of New York City, David presently makes his home in Southern California, where he lives with his delectable wife Karen. They are both aficionados of the arts—books, theater, museums, film, music, dance—and they can often be found partaking in one or another of them. They also love to travel, and are particularly fond of Paris, Venezia, Roma, Hawai'i, New York City, and the Pacific Northwest. They also enjoy sailing on cruises.

David has not yet been approved for nonprescription use by the FDA.