Uhura's Song is a Star Trek: The Original Series novel written by Janet Kagan published in 1985.

[2] She had committed to provide a ten-page outline plus a thirty-page sample to Hartwell within a week,[1] and whilst watching the recorded episodes, she realised that Uhura had not been featured prominently and that Nichelle Nichols had never been given any memorable lines.

[2] Kagan did remember Nichols in a NASA promotional film, and desired to "give Uhura the plum role she deserved".

[4] Following the successful publishing of the book, Kagan outlined two sequels to the novel, both featuring her original characters from Uhura's Song.

She submitted her outlines to the new editor once the office had stabilised after Hartwell's departure, but discovered that the policy was that authors were not allowed to bring back original characters from previous books, and so the sequels went unwritten.