Uhura can tell from the lyrics to the songs that the Eeiauoans didn’t originate on Eeiauo, and Spock agrees that that is very likely the case, but the Eeiauoans deny it. The value of the songs lay in their taboo status: Uhura taught Sunfall some bawdy ballads, and Sunfall taught Uhura songs that are pretty much treasonous to sing in Eeiauoan public. Long ago, Uhura and her friend Sunfall traded songs as a highly intimate act of friendship. Unlike a lot of Star Trek authors, however, Kagan seems to have actually possessed the self-awareness necessary to catch this flaw in her writing herself, because she sidelines McCoy for most of the book, and in his place, we get Acting Chief Medical Officer Evan Wilson. That’s just as well, since Kagan doesn’t write him very well, overstuffing his mouth with “damn” and “dammit” to the point of gaudy parody. Starfleet has quarantined the planet, and McCoy stays behind to help while the Enterprise is reassigned to seek out a cure. The only chance at a cure lies in the lyrics to songs Uhura learned a long time ago from a Eeiauoan friend named Sunfall of Ennien. It’s compared at one point to rabies, in that both animal and humanoid species can contract it, but its most visible symptoms are hair loss, giant lesions, and eventually slipping into a coma cheerily known as “The Long Death”. Timeline: TOS season 2 (after “Journey to Babel”)Ī plague called ADF-an acronym for which a full name is never supplied-is ravaging a planet of catlike people called Eeiauo and threatens to spread throughout the rest of the galaxy like wildfire. This week, we’re looking at Uhura’s Song, in which Uhura’s professional football career is derailed by a terminal cancer diagnosis.
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