title: Star Trek: The Original Series: Crucible: McCoy: Provenance of Shadows
author:  David R. George III 
description: <b>DAVID R. GEORGE III</b>wrote the Crucible trilogy for Star Trek's 40th anniversary as well as <i>Olympus Descending</i> for Worlds of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Volume Three. He previously visited DS9 in the novels <i>The 34th Rule</i>, set during the timeframe of the series, and in <i>Twilight</i>, set after the finale. His other Star Trek contributions include a first season Voyager episode, "Prime Factors," and one of the<i> Lost Era </i>books, <i>Serpents Among the Ruins,</i> which hit the <i>New York Times</i> bestseller list in Fall, 2003. Currently he is writing a novella for <i>Star Trek: Myriad Universes: Shattered Light</i>,comingin December, 2010, from Gallery Books.
zlib_text: ## About the Author
  
  
  With Plagues of Night, DAVID R. GEORGE III returns not only to the world of
  Star Trek but to the ongoing storyline involving the Typhon Pact. David
  previously contributed to the Pact saga with Rough Beasts of Empire, a tale of
  Romulan politics and deception that also introduced the theretofore unseen
  Tzenkethi. Rough Beasts also added to the continuing post-television Deep
  Space Nine saga, which David visited before in the novels Twilight (Mission:
  Gamma, Book One) and Olympus Descending (in Worlds of Deep Space Nine, Volume
  Three). He made his first foray into the DS9 milieu with the novel The 34th
  Rule, co-authored with Quark actor Armin Shimerman.
  
  
  David also penned the Crucible trilogy as part of the fortieth-anniversary
  celebration of the original Star Trek. The three novels utilize the events of
  the episode “The City on the Edge of Forever” as a means of exploring the
  series’ principal characters. Provenance of Shadows follows the life—or
  lives—of Doctor Mc