VULCAN!
You bastards!
I don’t know what else to say. Can they just leave it broke?
No, it will be miraculously fixed for the next movie. 
Actually, I think destroying the planet was revenge for what they did to Vulcans in Enterprise.
What, girls can’t work computers?
Spock only feigned interest to get her cloaking device. He was playing her like a violin.
Yes I Agree. The Commander is often held up as a female role model but she comprises her duty in pursuit of a man.
I’ve never left a scifi feeling so outraged before. It felt like they came to my house and shot my cat.
She turns around and says, “They why?”
Spock says, “You would respect no other decision.”
She responds, “It will be our secret.”
Great character. A lot of ink spilled about her in fanfic, and we don’t even know her real name!
A number of authorized novels as well, some of which are quite good for adaptations of a TV series.
Aesiron, are you referring to the gripping but, frankly, soft-core gay BDSM porn novels—i.e, The Price of the Phoenix & The Fate of the Phoenixby Culbreath & what’s-her-name–or to the far more lighthearted and considerably less pervy Rihannsu novels by Diane Duane?
The Romulan Commander (I feel I should point out that an earlier character played by Mark Lenard in “Balance of Terror” is also known solely by that title, though his character and Joanne Linville’s are unrelated) also has a cameo in the thoroughly goofy but entertaining 1983 novel Black Fire.
The Duane novels. The Romulans were always my favorite Trek species, so I liked the attention she gave them. Spock’s World is by Duane as well, and is pretty good, too.
I try to ignore the pre-PB 70s novels, many of which are obviously fanfic in retrospect. I had no idea what slash or Mary Sues were when I read them as an early teen, but thinking back on them now, I feel a little dirty.
Have I said Fool of a Took! today?
Oh, who cares? It’s not like anyone body expects me not to be repetiive.
Fool of a Took! i remind you that JOE HALDEMAN wrote one of those novels youso casually dismiss: Planet of Judgment. That’s hardly fan-fiction; it’s a damn fine read. Likewise Gordon Eklund’s The Starless World, and more than a few others. Even the Marshak-Culbreath efforts have their virtues, though the sadomasochist subtext is…ooky.
How can we be sure they’re not related? They have the same surname! 
I prefer Haldeman’s World Without End, myself.
Well, so do Mickey and Minnie Mouse, but they’re still dating.
I just looked both those up, and I’ve not read either, but neither of those make up for Spock, Messiah!
Judging from some of the toys I’ve seen at school, I believe they are living in sin.
Skald: “What does it mean, ‘Ooky’?”
Can we start rating the Trek novels? I haven’t read many, but by far the worst was a NextGen snoozer called War Drums.
I kinda liked that one from my hazy memory of it.
My favorites are the DS9 Relaunch and New Frontier, though my favorite standalone is easily Prime Directive by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, stupid ending and all.