A wonderful Star Trek fanzine novel concerning the lives of Spock’s parents Sarek and Amanda.
From Fanlore, the fan run non-profit wiki about media fandom:
“It was a huge seller, [3](especially for a non-K/S zine). By April 1977, over 950 had been sold. [4] 300 copies were printed each for the first and second printings (April and September 1976), 400 for the third printing in November 1976 and by February 1977 500 additional copies had been printed.
This zine had a long-lasting influence on fans’ view of Sarek and Amanda’s relationship, on Vulcan culture, on pon farr, and on Amanda herself. (NTM Amanda created the first universal translator; an idea that later appeared in many stories.) In some ways, the NTM universe Vulcan was the anti-Kraith Vulcan – interestingly, since Jean Lorrah also wrote Kraith stories.
The story could be considered a fix-it novel, as it spent a long time giving a possible explanation why Spock’s parents didn’t show up for his Kali-fi (in the TOS episode “Amok Time”), and why Sarek and Amanda’s relationship could be both strong, and as we saw it on screen in “Journey to Babel.”