The Price of the Phoenix (July 1977) is a science fiction novel by American writers Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath, based upon the 1960s television series Star Trek.

While searching for the real, original Kirk (still alive; it was a duplicate who was killed), Spock and James encounter the Romulan Commander they previously met in "The Enterprise Incident".

He is eventually subdued and Spock subjects him to a forced mind meld to purge his memory of the day's events.

Realizing Omne only took such an action to escape capture, Spock, James, Kirk and the Romulan Commander retreat to the Enterprise.

Holding James at gunpoint, Omne announces his intention to return to the planet's surface, where it will be impossible to pursue him.

The self-published book Never Mourn Black Omne, distributed sometime prior to the publication of Price, is believed to have been an early, draft, version of the novel.

Both Sondra and Marshak clarified, in a letter published in Interstat #20, that the manuscript for The Price of the Phoenix was personally approved by Gene Roddenberry as part of the book's production.

"is insulting to women," then in The Price of the Phoenix "everyone becomes a woman," and that "the only male portrayed in the novel is a black-clad herd bull" reminiscent of a character from The Sheik (1919) by E.M.

The review concluded by explaining "through a series of exciting climaxes to a final grand denouement" the ending is "something of a cop-out," and that the text was "rather excessively idealistic in concept[,] and almost exhaustingly emotional in tone.