In Search of...Carol Marcus

[Bixby]

Saw Star Trek 3 the Search for Spock this week where David Marcus gets killed. I've always wondered if there was any mention of his mother Carol after that movie whether in novelizations or elsewhere? Would be curious also if she was ever mentioned after Kirk's death in Generations as well...

 

[Greg Cox]

Saw Star Trek 3 the Search for Spock this week where David Marcus gets killed. I've always wondered if there was any mention of his mother Carol after that movie whether in novelizations or elsewhere? Would be curious also if she was ever mentioned after Kirk's death in Generations as well...

I believe she figures in John Vornholt's GENESIS WAVE novels. And there was also a recent novel about her original romance with Kirk. Inception, I think.

 

[Relayer1]

She appears in the Vanguard series of novels.

 

[Dion]

In the Novelization for Generations Carol calls Kirk over Comm link and is relieved that he has survived his imprisonment on Rura Penthe. I can't remember if she is mentioned later in the novel when Kirk is presumed dead though...

 

[Vanyel]

In Search Of....Extraterrestrials...Magic and Witchcraft...Missing Persons...Myths & Monsters...Lost Civilizations...Strange Phenomena.

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[sbk1234]

In the novelization of The Voyage Home (I think) there is a part where Kirk tries talking to Carol and she wants nothing to do with him due to David's death. I may be wrong. I read it once several decades ago.

 

[Jonas Grumby]

I believe she makes a brief appearance in the Shatnerverse. Possibly in a flashback scene, IIRC.

 

[TigerOfDarkness]

In the novelization of The Voyage Home (I think) there is a part where Kirk tries talking to Carol and she wants nothing to do with him due to David's death. I may be wrong. I read it once several decades ago.

Considering she wanted David in her world and not Kirk's, I imagine she would blame Kirk for David's death and never want to see Kirk again.

 

[F. King Daniel]

IIRC, she gave him a good slap at David's memorial in the old post-STIII DC comics.... right before being killed when MirrorKirk blew up Regula-1.

 

[Therin of Andor]

No one has mentioned the novel "Faces of Fire", for which Bibi Besch also read the audio production.

The novelization of ST V sets up Carol as being gravely injured in a Klingon attack, giving added weight to Kirk's anti Klingon feelings.

Memory Beta is a good source for these types of threads:
http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Carol_Marcus

 

[Bixby]

In the novelization of The Voyage Home (I think) there is a part where Kirk tries talking to Carol and she wants nothing to do with him due to David's death. I may be wrong. I read it once several decades ago.

Considering she wanted David in her world and not Kirk's, I imagine she would blame Kirk for David's death and never want to see Kirk again.

That would have been her natural reaction to the events of STAR TREK 3, I think. That she was never mentioned again always seemd odd to me. That AND the disappearance of Saavik are the great unresolved danglers.

i guess I was mostly curious if any writer had taken the initiative to show if after Kirk's death in Generations she had made her peace with her loss, or that she never got over it.

But thank you for the leads, I did click on MEMORY BETA, and I'm curious enough to go check out some of the novels suggested in this thread.I should be able to scrounge up some of them . I'll definitely try the GENESIS WAVE...

 

[Unicron]

IIRC, she gave him a good slap at David's memorial in the old post-STIII DC comics.... right before being killed when MirrorKirk blew up Regula-1.

That was the mirror version of Carol that was killed, not her counterpart from our universe. She does get naturally angry at Kirk at first for David's death, but later forgives him. They create a memorial for him in the Genesis Cave.

 

[Satyrquaze]

No one has mentioned the novel "Faces of Fire", for which Bibi Besch also read the audio production.

The novelization of ST V sets up Carol as being gravely injured in a Klingon attack, giving added weight to Kirk's anti Klingon feelings.

Memory Beta is a good source for these types of threads:
http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Carol_Marcus

I believe that was the STVI novelization. The newly built prototype BoP (that could fire while cloaked) attacked the colony(?) she was on.

 

[Therin of Andor]

I believe that was the STVI novelization. The newly built prototype BoP (that could fire while cloaked) attacked the colony(?) she was on.

Ooops, left off my extra "I".

Yeah, each of the movie novelizations progress Carol's story. In ST III, she visits March and Madison's parents, and in ST IV she visits with the parents of the Genesis Project's Deltan scientists, Jedda and Zinaida. In ST VI, Carol is injured by Klingons, and in "Generations" (or is it "The Fearful Summons", using the original "last roundup" opening planned for ST VI by Denny Martin Flinn?), IIRC, she is cohabitating with Kirk and is annoyed he's getting mixed up in Starfleet matters again.

Also in "Generations", Kirk's recurring wedding fantasy in the Nexus alternates between former loves Ruth, Edith, Carol, Antonia, etc.

 

[Satyrquaze]

Ooops, left off my extra "I".

Oh, I gotta take away your nerd card, now.

 

[Darth Duck]

Yeah, each of the movie novelizations progress Carol's story. In ST III, she visits March and Madison's parents, and in ST IV she visits with the parents of the Genesis Project's Deltan scientists, Jedda and Zinaida. In ST VI, Carol is injured by Klingons, and in "Generations" (or is it "The Fearful Summons", using the original "last roundup" opening planned for ST VI by Denny Martin Flinn?), IIRC, she is cohabitating with Kirk and is annoyed he's getting mixed up in Starfleet matters again.

I think that was Shatner's The Ashes of Eden.

 

[Anji]

Any novelizations written on how the two of them met?

 

[T'Girl]

If you buy that the little blond lab tech from WNMHGB was Carol Marcus, then Gary Mitchell set them up.

 

[Green Shirt]

In the novelization of The Voyage Home (I think) there is a part where Kirk tries talking to Carol and she wants nothing to do with him due to David's death. I may be wrong. I read it once several decades ago.

Considering she wanted David in her world and not Kirk's, I imagine she would blame Kirk for David's death and never want to see Kirk again.

If she wanted to place blame regarding David's death, she should look no further than herself and David. They were the ones who set the sequence in motion when they developed Genesis.