Book: TOS: Inception by SD Perry and Britta Dennison

Before they were stationed aboard the Enterprise, Captain Kirk and Mr Spock met two brilliant women who would gain their own places in Trek history. While their relationships with Dr Carol Marcus and Leila Kalomi took different paths...with very different consequences- there is no doubt that these relationships affected them and their futures deeply. Perry and Dennison's book brings the two scientists together as colleagues. This book meets my current standard of needing to be a fast read. Enjoyable!

ENT: Harbinger

The Enterprise rescues and alien caught in a spatial anomaly. The alien appears to be dying when he is brought aboard, but it soon becomes evident that those who has placed his ship in the anomaly had sinister purposes.