When the Enterprise and Bloodwing (captained by Ael) arrive at Artaleirh system they soon find themselves under attack from a fleet of nine Imperial Romulan ships, who they manage to defeat while capturing many of the ships for use in the growing Free Rihannsu fleet. Then they come under attack by Klingons who almost defeat them, but the Klingons are driven off when a massive Free Rihannsu ship, the Tyrava, turns up, surprising Kirk, and out-gunning the Klingons. The Tyrava is one of three singularity-powered generation ships that the Free Rihannsu have secretly developed in case they need to escape the oppressive Romulan leadership of ‘The Three’. As Praetor Gurrhim recovers in McCoy’s sickbay from the assassination attempt, the Enterprise, Bloodwing and the Free Rihannsu fleet start out via Augo to free ch’Rihan and ch’Havran from its tyrannical leadership. Along the way they get word that the Romulans have launched a cloaked vessel carrying Sunseed technology, aimed at blowing up Earth’s Sun (Ael and Kirk get confirmation of this thanks to the efforts of the Federation agent, Arrhae). Scotty and K’s’t’lk come up with an idea for overcoming Sunseed technology remotely by bringing the target star and another into resonance, but the first test results in both stars imploding. At Augo, the fleet comes under fierce attack by Romulan forces who are driven off only after a fleet of Starfleet vessels arrive when Kirk calls in a favor from Commodore Danilov (who dies when his ship, Ortisei, becomes a battle victim). The Starfleet vessels leave after this engagement, refusing to continue to Eisn. Earth is saved from the Sunseed attack when Scotty’s and K’s’t’lk’s second test (using the Sun and the Romulan star, Eisn) succeeds. Kirk’s battle-plan proves successful, ch’Rihan is retaken, and Ael reluctantly allows herself to be appointed as Empress after restoring the Sword to the Empty Chair. Spock presents Ael with his ancestral sword (a duplicate of the Sword). Ael suspects that the Romulans (Rihannsu) will close their borders for some extended period of time while they recover from this turmoil and rebuild themselves.
The Enterprise is sent to investigate a space/time rift that has appeared near the planet Taygeta V. The planet is home to seal-like creatures that are harvested for the “crystal tears” they produce when they are killed. The adult creatures apparently spend all their time in a never-ending song, even ignoring their young. Spock believes the creatures are probably sentient, and Kirk enlists the unwilling help of the composer/musician Maslin, who is suffering from Richart’s syndrome, and falls in love with Uhura. Arriving at the planet, the Enterprise crew finds two Klingon vessels, under the direction of Kor, and later discover a group of hunters also on the planet. Maslin sets about trying to communicate with the Taygetians, while the other Klingons mutiny against Kor and his wife (Kali). The hunters are also a problem, but they get trouble from Kor and Kirk, who end up working together. Spock discovers that a nova had devastated the other planets in the system about 3,000 years before, but somehow Taygeta V had remained untouched. When the dilithium crystals start to deteriorate, Scotty finds that the creatures song ranges into subspace, and Spock believes it goes further, into the psychic (it has been noted that they can reorganize the flora of their planet at will, and teleport fish). Spock determines that the song was originally devised to protect the planet from the nova, and has been continued since as a kind of religious observance. The space/time rift has been created due to gaps in the song caused by the deaths of the creatures harvested for their Crystal Tears. Maslin and Uhura finally discover how to communicate with the creatures and they help Kirk to convince the creatures to stop their song, which then makes the rift disappear, but Maslin dies in the effort.
Amanda (Spock’s mother), an Enterprise crew member injured in a battle with the Klingons, and a physician’s wife all end up undergoing an experimental medical treatment on Vulcan. The treatment had been developed by the Vulcan, Sorel (whose wife was undergoing the treatment), and the human, Daniel Corrigan, the same two physicians who had assisted in Spock’s conception and birth. Then Sorel’s wife dies when the treatment unit she is in malfunctions, and later the same thing happens to the Enterprise crewman. Although crime is virtually unknown on Vulcan, it is soon clear that the system was sabotaged, and the deaths were murder. A power surge that destroys possibly incriminating computer records (and also starts a potentially deadly fire) also puts Amanda’s life at risk. While Spock and McCoy assist the efforts to find what caused the failures of the treatment units, Kirk acts the detective, and tries to find a possible motive for the killings and locate the murderer. However, he almost ends up dying after an accident in the desert on a date with Sarek’s assistant, Eleyna Miller (a human). It turns out that Eleyna was the murderer, having intended to kill Amanda, hoping that Sarek would then fall in love with her instead. [Timeline: after Amok Time and before Dr. M’Benga joins the Enterprise.]
The Enterprise is sent to assist the cat-like inhabitants of Eeiauo, who are suffering from a virulent plague with, seemingly, no cure. The plague then starts affecting humans, and Christine Chapel is one of the first infected. Uhura had previously traded songs with an Eeiauan, and one song hints at a possible cure, and other indications point to Eeiauo as not being the inhabitants’ original home planet. Following a few tentative clues, the Enterprise searches for, and finds, the original home planet (known as Sivao), but the natives there refuse to talk about the Eeiauoans (and those that do want to help, don’t recognized the symptoms of the plague). Kirk and the landing party first have to prove they are adults, by making a hazardous walk from one settlement to another, overcoming a number of near fatal incidents, and having Chekov drop into a coma as a result of the plague (known to the Federation as ADF syndrome or the Long Death). It is realized that Chekov must have contacted the disease on Sivao, but none of the natives recognize the symptoms. Again from a clue provided by one of the songs Uhura knew, it is established that the plague is a common children’s disease (known as Noisy Baby) on Sivao. With that established, the cure is available, and the Sivaoans assist in curing the plague on Eeiauo. The Eeiauoans had been banished from Sivao 2,500 years ago because they had adopted a settled lifestyle, which had upset the natural balance on the planet and caused a few species to become extinct. There is also the mystery of who Dr. Evan Wilson (who assists the Enterprise crew) really is, as the real Dr. Wilson turns out to be elsewhere. [Timeline: Stardate 2950.3]
Prince Vikram had been sent to Earth to learn of modern ways and is returning to his home planet, Angira, to assist his father’s efforts at modernizing the planet. He, Sulu and Spock beam down for the ceremonies on his return, while the Enterprise heads off on another mercy mission. Unfortunately, the ceremonies turn into a bloodbath, when Lord Rahu leads a rebellion and kills the king and all the nobles. Prince Vikram, Sulu and Spock only just escape with their lives, but Vikram’s friend and guardian, Bibil, dies fighting off a plague of oversized beetles while assisting their escape. Vikram and his group go through many dangerous situations, during which Spock is wounded and captured by Rahu’s forces, before the remainder reach Vikram’s home village. Even there they almost end up in custody, before a popular uprising in his support turns the village elders’ minds. With the assistance of the local armed forces Prince Vikram takes the fight to Rahu and ends up dueling with Lord Bhima, the sword master, before defeating Rahu. [Timeline: Stardate 1831.5]
The Enterprise is docked at Starbase Twelve where there is also a Klingon ore freighter, soon joined by a Klingon warbird, which raises Spock’s suspicions. He finds a way onto the freighter, but then gets trapped onboard when the ship departs unexpectedly. Spock manages to send the Enterprise a couple of short cryptic messages that imply time travel, what is later established to be the Earth year 1867, and mention of a Klingon named Khlaru who had been a researcher working with Trae of Vulcanis. When Khlaru suddenly gets recalled to the Klingon homeworld it confirms that connection, and a study of his work brings up the name Aaron Stemple who worked with President Grant in thwarting the subtle attempts of the ancient Karsids to take over Earth’s economy. That had led to the Karsids moving their efforts to Klinzhai. It was the Klingon’s efforts to throw off the Karsid influence that ended up making them the way they are. The so-called Klingon freighter was on a mission back in time to kill Stemple, but Spock is discovered, beaten and tortured to the point he has to block his own memory, but he then escapes and is found by Stemple who nurses him back to health. Spock becomes known as Ismael Marx and somewhat integrates into the frontier life in Seattle, but begins to regain his memory on a trip to San Francisco and the Klingons catch up with them and stage a couple of attacks on Stemple’s life. One of those might have succeeded had the Enterprise not arrived in time for Dr. McCoy to save Stemple’s life. In doing so they save the life of one of Spock’s ancestors through his mother, Amanda Stemple Grayson.
The present Romulan Praetor is Thea, who had been the Romulan Commander that Kirk and Spock stole the cloaking device from, and she had become Praetor after the death of her father not too long ago. Thea has been keeping herself covered in a hooded robe, because she doubts that the warriors would accept a woman as Praetor. Her father had come up with a plan to send two android assassins back through time to Earth in the year 2097. They were to kill Doctor Palmer and his two associates, whose ideas had ultimately led to the development of the Federation of Planets and the hemming-in of the Romulans by the Neutral Zone. Thea has her doubts about the plan, but the planning was too far advanced to easily stop it without repercussions, so she lets it proceed. She does make sure that she is aboard the Romulan Flagship Ravon, along with the rest of the fleet, in hyperspace when the assassins go back to carry out the plan, so that she won’t be affected by any changes. The changes do not cause a branching off of a new universe, nor do they cleanly change the original timeline, instead the changed timeline (Second History) seems to ripple through the original timeline (First History). That initially causes a lot of people to start having strange dreams, especially those who end up in a different sort of job or position in Second History. Then Second History takes over, and the USS Enterprise is now the VSS ShiKahr with Captain Spock, Kirk is a disgruntled ensign, and McCoy (who had not been experiencing the disturbing dreams) is still the ship’s doctor. Instead of the Federation, the Vulcans had formed the Interstellar Alliance of Planets which Earth had joined after developing interstellar spaceflight. Spock and McCoy soon realize that the conflicts between people’s lives in the First and Second Histories, which had been giving the dreams, is now driving people mad. Spock calculates that the universe has about two weeks before the insanity results in life being unable to survive. He also feels that Ensign Kirk is important for any solution, and he suspects that the Romulans are behind the changes since they are the only ones known to have developed time travel. When the Raven returns Thea to normal space, she and Sarela (the Ravon’s second-in-command and science officer) confirm that the changes are not those that her father had expected. However, Thea wants to change Romulan society from its militaristic style to a more peaceful one. To implement that, she has Ensign Kirk (along with his roommate, Ensign Jeremy Richardson) kidnapped, so that she could blackmail Spock into agreeing to join her and act the part of Praetor while presenting Surak’s Tenets of Discipline to the governors of Romulus and the Warriors’ representatives. Spock has his own reasons for going with her, hoping to use the Romulan time travel technology to correct the timeline and stop the developing madness. Unfortunately, the conflict in histories triggers Pon farr in Spock, but Thea offers her services to help him through that. When Thea finds that the madness is growing in the Romulan Empire, she agrees to take Spock, Kirk, and Richardson back in time aboard her ship, T’Favaron, leaving them on Earth to try and prevent the changes. Richardson dies in the attempt, but Kirk and Spock disable and then destroy the two android assassins, and Doctor Palmer and his two associates escape unharmed. Spock is mortally wounded, and Kirk is with him as they both disappear when history changes again. Next day, Captain Kirk, First Officer Spock, and Lieutenant Richardson, back on the Enterprise rather than the similar ShiKahr, are found to be the only ones who had experienced strange dreams the previous night, and there is some question of whether those dreams were real events or not. Then, while Captain Kirk visits the ship’s botanical gardens he finds an Academy class ring with his initials on it, and he recalls Ensign Kirk dropping the ring during what he had thought had been a dream. Kirks drops the ring back where he found it, knowing that it wouldn’t be there the next day. Then a message is received from Starfleet Command saying that the Praetor had requested new treaty negotiations.
The Federation has adopted an ancient Vulcan tradition of having Warrantors of the Peace (close relatives of leaders of the Federation member planets held at T’lingShar on Vulcan, and their lives will be forfeit if a leader instigates hostilities against any other Federation member planet). The Romulans, working with the Klingons, capture six of the Warrantors, hoping to cause dissention between the Federation members, but unfortunately everyone involved is overly emotional, and Theras, the Andorian Warrantor, gets himself killed when he panics on realizing he is going to be held captive. Then one of their Klingon captors, Kalor, start a sort of xenopsychology experiment by separating one of the three Deltan Warrantors from the others and all three give up and die. The female Romulan Commander (who had lost the cloaking device to Spock and Kirk) visits the desolate planet where the surviving human and Vulcan Warrantors (females, Cleante alFaisal and T’Shael) are being held, and the Klingon commander, Krazz, dies in a planet-quake as she arrives. The Commander is appalled at the conditions the captives are being held in, and, before leaving, she threatens Kalor (who is left in charge) with dire consequences if the final two Warrantors come to harm. But he continues his experiments anyway, and Cleante and T’Shael seem to be in a competition to see who can sacrifice most to save the other, while deceiving each other. While this has been going on, Scotty and Sulu go on missions to gather information, and the Federation is able to use that to force the Romulans to agree to the release of the survivors. But the Commander insists that it is Kirk and Spock who travel alone in a shuttle to collect them, and she returns to the planet to check on their condition, summarily executing Kalor when she sees what he has been doing. The Commander leaves before Admiral Kirk and Spock arrives, and when they are rescued (6 months after they were captured) T’Shael is effectively unconscious, but between Spock and Cleante they get her through it, and it looks like Cleante and T’Shael will become firm lifelong friends, or t’hy’la in Vulcan. The Federation, wisely, decides to drop the Warrantor idea.
Jean Czerny was working as an agricultural scientist at a research station on Sherman’s planet when an earthquake causes the building she is in to collapse. She is rescued by the Klingon Commander Kang, and Kirk is unable to get him to release her. Kang actually wanted her and the strain of quadrotriticale she had been working on, to help fight a famine in the Empire that had been brought on by blight as a result of viral warfare. She ends up agreeing to help, working with Aernath, their agricultural liaison. After setting up test plots of the quadrotriticale on two planets, and Czerny becoming Kang’s consort and lover, they move to the planet Peneli. There, Aernath reveals that he is actually working for Mara, Kang’s estranged wife, who thinks the Empire should be entering into negotiations with the Federation now, while Kang believes they should wait until the Empire is stronger. Mara arranges for Czerny and Aernath to escape to the Federation with her son, Aethelnor (who Kang, the father, doesn’t know about). Spock acts as an intermediary, but Czerny gets apprehended. Mara wins her coup and gets Kang to attend a meeting with the Federation, where Kirk is the Federation representative, and Czerny is brought along. Discussions are rocky, but they end up doing a deal which includes freedom for Czerny and Aernath who seem to be planning a life together. Czerny finally regains her memory, lost in the earthquake, about being an agent who was to help with the Klingon famine. [Timeline: circa Stardate 5960.2]
The Enterprise has been called in to protect the rural planet of Aritani from pirate ships that are destroying the farmland and killing the inhabitants. While investigating the planet, Spock goes missing and is found badly injured from a serious fall. McCoy requests a specialist in Vulcan medicine, and soon afterwards a lady doctor, by the name of Emma Saenz, arrives and prescribes treatment, but Spock shows little sign of improvement. Despite the planetary shield that Scotty has erected, the pirate ships (of Romulan design) are still getting through, and the Aritani rescind their request for help because they see the Federation as helpless in this instance. Nevertheless, Kirk stays in orbit and they do capture one Romulan pilot (another dies in transport) but the Romulan is later murdered aboard the Enterprise, and Scotty comes under suspicion. Meanwhile, Spock has been allowed (against Dr. Saenz’s protestations) to return to Vulcan, and the Enterprise later heads there also, taking Federation delegates (one of whom is murdered en route) to a council to be held on Vulcan, to decide on whether help should be withdrawn from Aritani. Spock gives up taking his medicine after getting frustrated at not being able to regain the mind rules, but they start to return when he stops taking the medicine, and he also starts to recall what happened on Aritani. By the time the Enterprise arrives, Spock has recalled seeing Romulans on the planet (he was injured escaping from them), and when the Enterprise returns to Aritani, they are able to locate the underground Romulan base. When Kirk and Spock infiltrate the base, they find that Dr. Saenz is actually a Romulan, named Subcommander Tanirius, and she helps them destroy the base (she is part of a Romulan group that wants peace with the Federation). The inhabitants of Aritani are grateful for the help that the Enterprise gave, and request entry into the Federation. [Timeline: Stardate 7003.4]
The Enterprise is suffering computer problems (found to have resulted from a small black hole having passed through the computer core), but it is then sent to Centaurus to provide assistance after an anti-matter explosion destroys the city of New Athens (where Dr. McCoy’s daughter, Joanna, lives, although she survived the explosion, and near to where Kirk owns a large parcel of land). Arriving at Centaurus, they find that three medical ships that arrived before them have been destroyed, and the Enterprise gets its shields up just in time before a missile from the out-of-control planetary defense system hits them. They contact the surviving government on the planet, and ascertain that the government cannot control the defense system, so Spock volunteers to take a shuttle down to try to fix the problem. They end up taking two shuttles down and successfully confuse the defense system, and Kirk contacts the government officials, while Spock works on the defense system. The problem with the defense system is finally solved when Spock gets the system to see the planet’s sun as an enemy, and all the remaining missiles launch to attack it. The original explosion had been caused by a group of terrorists (the League for a Pure Humanity) who want the planet kept for humans only, and the remaining terrorists decide that their best bet now is to place themselves in the hands of Federation justice, rather than possibly fall into the hands of the planetary authorities (who want them dead). To that end, the terrorists contact Sam Cogley who in turn contacts Kirk. Two of the planetary leaders, Burke and Perez, had been expecting such a contact, and Kirk, Sulu and Cogley have to make an escape to Kirk’s property in Garrovick Valley (after having met up with five of the terrorists). The radiation from the original explosion is still causing communication problems, but Kirk succeeds in getting a signal sent out from the unit in his cabin, before the unit burns out, and Uhura recognizes the significance of the signal. With McCoy’s knowledge of Kirk’s property, they work out where he is. By that time, Kirk and the others are under siege from forces directed by Burke and Perez, but then Spock takes the Enterprise down through the atmosphere and drives off the attacking forces. The terrorists are taken into Federation custody. [Timeline: Stardate 7513.5]
After a performance in the Kobayashi Maru scenario that crashed the simulator, Lieutenant Piper gets a post aboard the Enterprise, where she finds she is rooming with some others, including a Vulcan, Sarda, who she had severely embarrassed by mentioning his interest in weaponry. Then the Enterprise is sent to intercept a stolen top-secret starship, effectively a battleship or dreadnought, called Star Empire that has been stolen by supposed insurgents who say they will only talk to Piper. The ship was the pet project of Vice-Admiral Rittenhouse, who planned to use it to forcefully unite the galaxy. It turns out that Star Empire had been stolen by Commander Paul Burch (who used to work with Rittenhouse), Brian Silayna (who had been Piper’s lover at the Academy) and a small group of others who wanted to thwart Rittenhouse’s ambitions. Piper and Sarda abscond aboard an Arco-class attack sled (Wooden Shoe), planning on talking to those on Star Empire, but they get taken into custody by Rittenhouse when he arrives aboard Pompeii. With a bit of help from Kirk, they escape and get to Star Empire, but find Burch and the others have little idea of how to operate the ship. Piper has to take command when Star Empire comes under attack by Pompeii and three other starships that Rittenhouse had called in (and whose captains were in on Rittenhouse’s plans) and Burch is incapacitated. The battle is Rittenhouse’s four ships against the Enterprise and the Star Empire which has a crew that struggle to put up shields and fire weapons. The good guys seem to be winning until Pompeii starts a collision run against Star Empire, but the Enterprise destroys Pompeii just in time. Piper, and others involved, gets awards and Piper is promoted to Lieutenant Commander.
In the middle of a sailing contest, Kirk is taken in for questioning about the theft of Federation technology, but not before telling Lt. Cmdr. Piper that she is to do a ‘mail run’ and that there is a space vessel waiting for her at Man-0-War Cay. Arriving at the Bahamas (along with McCoy) she finds Scanner Sandage and Merete AndrusTaurus waiting for her, and discovers that her ship is a converted barge, which was called Tyrannosaurus Rex, but which she names Banana Republic. She intends to rescue Kirk, but finds that the ship has been programmed to take them to Argelius in the Tau Ceti Quadrant. Arriving at Argelius they meet up with Spock, who explains that Professor Ursula Mornay is planning on auctioning the transwarp technology (previously stolen by Rittenhouse), assisted by the Vulcans Perren and Sarda. Sarda is not cooperating willingly, except to try to maintain safety. Piper and her group try to rescue Sarda, but become captives themselves, although they manage to escape with a little help from Kirk. Mornay (assisted by Dr. Boma) takes over the Enterprise, and is planning to use it to test the transwarp propulsion system. However, Piper disables the Enterprise as it is attempting to leave the system by using Rex's tractor beams to anchor a warp nacelle to a planet. Mornay and her henchmen are overpowered, but then a number of other starships arrive (including Klingons and Romulans) intent on gaining possession of the transwarp technology. Kirk and Piper hold them off, helped by the fact that the rival factions are fighting each other, and the Enterprise finally uses the effects of the transwarp technology to disable (rather horrifically) most of the attacking vessels, and then four Federation starships (Hood, Yorktown, Exeter and Majestic) arrive to take control. [Timeline: Stardate 4720.2; Kirk is in his mid-thirties]
The Enterprise is returning a group of Vulcan archaeologists from the exploration at Beekman’s planet in the Hydrilla sector to Vulcan, when the murder of a crewman occurs onboard. Another group of Vulcans have already returned to Vulcan from the same site, including Silek (Sarek’s brother) and Starnn (Silek’s father-in-law), and, soon after their return, murders start to occur among the Vulcan population. Sarek is given a gift by Starnn of a mysteriously sealed box, which came from the exploration in the Hydrilla sector, and after returning home he finds it has opened. Soon after that, Silek and Starnn are found dead at the house, with Silek definitely murdered. It turns out that Starfleet knew that some form of infection was taking place, and had Spock working on it, along with Ensign Dr. Anitra Lanter, who can detect infected people. Spock’s mother gets infected, and she is beamed aboard the Enterprise and put in stasis. The Enterprise crew have already started to be infected and they take the ship out of Vulcan orbit and start heading for Earth, but Kirk and Spock take control of the ship and return to near Vulcan. Spock, McCoy and Anitra take a shuttlecraft to Vulcan, while the Enterprise is disabled. Spock goes to get Sarek (who is known to be infected) for use in experimenting on how to overcome the energy parasite creatures, but Spock gets knocked unconscious by Sarek and has to be rescued by Anitra and McCoy (Anitra also gets infected during the rescue, so McCoy does most of the rescuing). Meanwhile, on the Enterprise more crew members are getting infected (including Kirk), but a cure is found when Uhura locks Kirk in a closet for a couple of days. The same cure is found on Vulcan when Sarek and Anitra are kept in stasis. The creatures need to ‘feed’, which they do by torturing others, and isolation causes them to die. The cure for the planet is determined to be to administer an airborne sedative, and the Enterprise (which by this time Kirk has restored and returned to Vulcan) is used to help distribute it.
Kirk is taking over the captaincy of the Enterprise from Chris Pike, and, to his disgust, is given the mission of transporting the Warp-Speed Classic Vaudeville Company on a tour of starbases, starting with Starbase 13 in the Klingon Phalanx. He is also disappointed not to have Gary Mitchell aboard as his first officer, as Gary is still recovering after the battle at Ghioghe which left their ship, the Lydia Sutherland, a wreck. Meanwhile, a female Klingon rebel, Koronin (a Rumaiy) has taken control of a new Klingon prototype ship and is also headed for the same area, and the Klingon Director (father of the late captain of the prototype ship) is chasing after her with a fleet of warships. Along the way, the Enterprise picks up a distant cousin of Spock (Stephen - who Spock despises because he searches for emotional experiences) who offers his services to the vaudeville company as a juggler. The Enterprise comes across a worldship of unknown origin (like a vast collection of pearls in a webbing of silvery strands). The inhabitants are winged creatures, apparently from a different galaxy, and the universal translator cannot make sense of their musical language. Spock mindmelds with one of the aliens, Scarlet, enabling Scarlet (and later the other aliens) to understand Federation standard language, but Spock becomes unstable, thinking he is one of the winged aliens. Spock escapes to the worldship aboard an alien solar-sail craft, but is later rescued by Kirk flying the vaudeville troupe's equirapter, or flying horse, Athene. Stephen mindmelds with Spock to enable him to regain control of himself. Koronin tries to capture the worldship, but finds that it returns force for force. She gets captured by the Director after Kirk deflects her suicidal dive aboard her ship, Quundar, into the worldship, which would have caused it to return such force as to destroy the Klingon Empire. The Klingon Director, in gratitude, allows a temporary truce with the Enterprise, and the vaudeville company puts on a show for the Federation crew, the Klingons and the winged aliens. The winged aliens then decide to move on (actually to move this part of the universe away from them) so as not to be the focus of more disputes. Koronin escapes using a lockpick stolen from Lindy (Amelinda Lukarian), the leader and magician of the vaudeville company.