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The Trellisane Confrontation

1984 novel by David Dvorkin

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ7770111 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Trellisane Confrontation is a science fiction novel by American writer David Dvorkin, part of the Star Trek: The Original Series franchise.

Plot

The planet Trellisane is the breeding ground for a three-way war. Captain Kirk ends up as a passenger on a Klingon warship. Dr. McCoy is stuck with cannibals. The USS Enterprise is surrounded by Romulans and the Neutral Zone is filled with more danger than ever.

Editorial summary

“The Trellisane Confrontation” enters the record as 1984 novel by David Dvorkin. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Trellisane, Confrontation and novel can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current 69-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1984-02. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Trellisane, Confrontation and novel.
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Why this record matters

“The Trellisane Confrontation” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Trellisane, Confrontation and novel provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7770111. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Trellisane Confrontation” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.