"Triptych" is a Star Trek short story.

Summary

After Kirk fails to correct the timeline in New York City, 1930, two more teams need to travel through the Guardian of Forever.

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References

Characters

Guardian of Forever • Michael Jameson • Edith Keeler • James T. Kirk • Leonard McCoy • Montgomery Scott • Spock • Hikaru Sulu • Nyota Uhura • Worsley

Referenced only

Stephen Keeler

Starships and vehicles

Locations

After the Ball

Races and cultures

Human • Vulcan

States and organizations

Other references

Chronology

Appendices

Related media

• TOS episode & Star Trek 2 novelization: The City on the Edge of Forever

Connections

Star Trek: The Original Series collected short stories, novellas and short novels
The New Voyages	The New Voyages ("Ni Var" • "Intersection Point" • "The Enchanted Pool" • "Visit to a Weird Planet Revisited" • "The Face on the Barroom Floor" • "The Hunting" • "The Winged Dreamers" • "Mind-Sifter" • "Sonnet from the Vulcan: Omicron Ceti Three") • The New Voyages 2 ("Surprise!" • "Snake Pit!" • "The Patient Parasites" • "In the Maze" • "Cave-In" • "Marginal Existence" • "The Procrustean Petard" • "The Sleeping God" • "Elegy for Charlie" • "Soliloquy")
Star Trek II & III Short Stories	Star Trek II Short Stories ("The Blaze of Glory" • "Under Twin Moons" • "Wild Card" • "The Secret Empire" • "Intelligence Test" • "To Wherever") • Star Trek III Short Stories ("The Azphari Enigma" • "The Jungles of Memory" • "A Vulcan, A Klingon, and an Angel" • "World's End" • "As Old as Forever")
Strange New Worlds	I ("A Private Anecdote" • "The Last Tribble" • "The Lights in the Sky" • "Reflections") • II ("Triptych" • "The Quick and the Dead" • "The First Law of Metaphysics" • "The Hero of My Own Life" • "Doctors Three") • III ("If I Lose Thee..." • "The Aliens Are Coming!" • "Family Matters") • IV ("A Little More Action" • "Prodigal Father" • "Missed" • "Tears for Eternity" • "Countdown" • "First Star I See Tonight" • "Scotty's Song" • "The Name of the Cat") • V ("Disappearance on 21st Street" • "The Trouble with Borg Tribbles" • "Legal Action" • "Yeoman Figgs" • "The Shoulders of Giants") • VI ("Whales Weep Not" • "One Last Adventure" • "Marking Time" • "Ancient History" • "Bum Radish: Five Spins on a Turquoise Reindeer" • "A Piece of the Pie") • VII ("A Test of Character" • "Indomitable" • "Project Blue Book" • "The Trouble With Tribals" • "All Fall Down" • "A Sucker Born" • "Obligations Discharged") • 8 ("Shanghaied" • "Assignment: One" • "Demon" • "Don't Call Me Tiny") • 9 ("Gone Native" • "A Bad Day for Koloth" • "Book of Fulfillment" • "The Smallest Choices") • 10 ("The Smell of Dead Roses" • "The Doomsday Gambit" • "Empty") • 2016 ("Dilithium Is a Girl's Best Friend")
Constellations	"First, Do No Harm" • "The Landing Party" • "Official Record" • "Fracture" • "Chaotic Response" • "As Others See Us" • "See No Evil" • "The Leader" • "Ambition" • "Devices and Desires" • "Where Everybody Knows Your Name" • "Make-Believe"
Star Trek: Explorer	"All That Most Maddens and Torments" • "The Way to Exile" • "Cumulative Damage" • "Explorers of the Storm" • "The Guardian" • "The Trouble with Jones" • "Sundering" • "A Dish Served Cold" • "Forewarned and Three-Armed" • "Working Miracles" • "Cat and Mouse" • "Housewarming" • "Memoriam"• "Chekov's Challenge" • "My Name is Mudd" • "The Lost Noel"
Misc. short stories	"Though Hell Should Bar the Way" • "Conflicting Natures" • "The Avenger" • "Night Whispers" • "Just Another Little Training Cruise" • "Safe Harbors" • "Ill Winds" • "The Greater Good"
Misc. novellas & short novels	"The Business, As Usual, During Altercations" • "The Badlands, Part I" • "One Giant Leap" • "The First Artifact" • "The Sorrows of Empire" • "A Less Perfect Union" • "The Chimes at Midnight"

Timeline

published order
Previous story: first story	Strange New Worlds II	Next story: The Quick and the Dead
Previous story: Reflections Strange New Worlds I	TOS short stories	Next story: The Quick and the Dead Strange New Worlds II
Previous story: first Star Trek story	Stories by: Melissa Dickinson	Next story: most recent work
chronological order
Previous adventure: The City on the Edge of Forever	Pocket Books Timeline	Next adventure: Remembering the Future sections 8 - 9 Strange New Worlds 9
Previous adventure: Forgotten History chapter 1, section 2 Department of Temporal Investigations	Memory Beta Chronology	Next adventure: Remembering the Future sections 8 - 9 Strange New Worlds 9
Previous adventure: Provenance of Shadows chapters 1, 3 & 5 Crucible	voyages of the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) (2264 to 2270)	Next adventure: Marking Time Strange New Worlds VI
The above chronology placements are based on the primary placement in 2267. The Pocket Books Timeline and Memory Beta Chronology place events from this story in 1 other timeframe(s):
Previous Pocket adventure: The City on the Edge of Forever Previous MB adventure: Provenance of Shadows timeline 2 overture, chapters 2, 4, 6, 8 & 10 Crucible	1930 chapter 1, sections 1 & 2; chapter 2, sections 1 - 5 & chapter 3, sections 1 - 7	Next adventure: Remembering the Future sections 2 - 7 Strange New Worlds 9