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The Return of the\\nSerpent.

During The Original Series, Kirk made many life-shattering\\ndecisions for civilizations he\'d just met. In "The Apple," the\\ndiscovery of naive humanoids living in a Garden of Eden-like\\nsetting on Gamma Trianguli VI was too much for the Captain to take.\\nThe people were happy, but they worshipped a god who turned out be\\na machine named Vaal. And when this machine saw Kirk as a threat,\\nhe destroyed it\\u2014leaving the People of Vaal in chaos. "Well, there\\ngoes paradise," quipped McCoy. End of story.

Or was it? In this episode of Literary Treks Matthew Rushing and\\nChristopher Jones are joined by Standard Orbit\'s Drew Stewart to\\ndiscuss the three-part DC Comics story from 1987 called The Return\\nof the Serpent. The comics tell the story of Kirk\'s return to Gamma\\nTrianguli VI two decades later and the consequences of his actions\\nin "The Apple"\\u2014and does so with the help of a dinosaur.

In our news segment we check in on Una McCormack\'s upcoming TNG\\nbook Home Again, which has been rebranded as a DS9 novel called The\\nMissing, Greg Cox\'s TOS movie-era novel Foul Deeds Will Rise, and\\nPaula M. Block and Terry J. Erdmann\'s Lust\'s Latinum Lost (and\\nFound). We also dig into the collaboration between IDW and Harlan\\nEllison to bring the original script for "The City On the Edge of\\nForever" to comics, check out Ryan Williams\'s Star Trek Lit-verse\\nReading Guide, and review Star Trek Ongoing #31, I, Enterprise,\\nPart I.