The Vulcan Academy Murders is a science fiction novel by American writer Jean Lorrah, part of the Star Trek: The Original Series franchise.

Captain Kirk and Dr. McCoy travel to a hospital facility on Vulcan to acquire treatment for a badly wounded Enterprise crew member.

Kirk, trying to solve the case, is hampered by some Vulcans' belief that it would be illogical for murder to be happening on their home world, and that the deaths are therefore accidents.

Lorrah decided to write a script for Star Trek: The Original Series after seeing the first episode,[1] but found that she couldn't due to issues with Hollywood agents.

She decided afterwards to write a Star Trek novel, but shelved the idea at first as Pocket Books were only accepting submissions from published authors at the time.