In the prequel to Voyage of the Star Wolf, first officer Jonathan Korie drives his captain and the crew of their obsolete starship on a fanatical, possibly disastrous search for an enemy that may be a phantom. Originally published as Yesterday's Children

Who will keep the starways safe when bioengineered superhumans make war on the human race? Executive Officer Jonathan Thomas Korie and the crew of Alliance Liberty Ship LS-1187 made the mistake of surviving an ambush by the Morthan Solidarity. The attack had come without warning., devastating the Alliance fleet. For although Alliance technology was more advanced, the Morthans—a Militaristic culture of bioengineered superhumans—were master strategists, and destroyers like their Dragon Lord were equipped with more firepower than any Alliance vessel. His captain dead, his ship barely functioning, Korie and his crew slowly made their way home, But the Alliance needed a scapegoat on which to blame the disaster and the LS-1187 filled the bill. Instead of being hailed as heroes, they were treated as Jonahs. Consigned to drydock for repairs, the LS-1187 and its crew seemed to have been conveniently forgotten by top Alliance officials. Then Captain Hardesty came aboard and everything changed. Hardesty's reputation as the toughest, most terrifying warhorse in the military was an understatement. Still, he and his new senior officers—including a Morthan Tyger, who Korie could only hope was loyal to the Alliance—might prove just what the LS-1187 needed. For Hardesty's only interest was in turning a wreck back into a functioning warship manned by a crew capable of performing at his inhumanly high standards. As executive Officer, Korie became Hardesty's main target, a situation which made him feel that if he could survive Hardesty he could survive anything. The Alliance—and the Morthans—would soon give him the opportunity to find out if he was right. —From the dust jacket flaps

Star Wolf has been consigned to salvage—a fate unbearable to Commander Jonathan Korie. In a bald act of insubordination, he and his crew work to bring the ship to battle-readiness, unaware of a deadly booby trap on board—and that the Star Wolf may be the only line of defense for one of humanity's most important strongholds.

With an introduction by D.C. Fontana The Morthans were physically and mentally superior. Descended from humans, they were now, literally, “more-than” human … and considered the human race to be little better than animals. They would stop at nothing to conquer the remaining human-controlled worlds. Formerly a never-filmed script for Star Trek: The Next Generation, this conclusion to the Star Wolf trilogy finds Executive Officer Korie and the crew of the Star Wolf answering a distress call from a mysteriously lifeless ship. On board the Norway, they discover half-wave, half-particle clusters of golden light—and a dead man. The lights are the energy form of bloodworms, a fatal infestation that feeds off the energy of living bodies, which scientists on the Norway have developed for use in the Alliance’s war against the Morthans. Officer Korie’s struggle between his conscience and his desire for vengeance will determine not only the safety of the Star Wolf, but the fate of the enemies he’s sworn to destroy.

David Gerrold is an American science fiction author who started his career in 1966 while a college student by submitting an unsolicited story outline for the television series Star Trek. He was invited to submit several premises, and the one chosen by Star Trek was filmed as "The Trouble with Tribbles" and became one of the most popular episodes of the original series. Gerrold's novelette "The Martian Child" won both Hugo and Nebula awards. The Star Wolf series of novels by David Gerrold is centered on the star ship Star Wolf and its Voyage of the Star Wolf (1990), The Middle of Nowhere (1995), Blood and Fire (2004), and Yesterday's Children (1972) which is actually an earlier novel that features the same main character, later significantly expanded and republished as Starhunt (1985)—it occurs prior to the other novels in the series' main continuity. The Star Wolf is a "Liberty Ship," officially designated the LS-1187. Plagued by misfortune throughout the series, without any confirmed kills to its credit, it was denied a name by Command. Gerrold had planned to develop this concept into a TV series. The later novels were written after the TV concept had been presented. The Star Wolf series reflects Gerrold's contention that, due to the distances involved, space battles would be more like submarine hunts than the dogfights usually portrayed—in most cases the ships doing battle wouldn't even be able to see each other. Gerrold referred to the concept as "World War II in space," and intended it as a stylistic opposite of Star Trek (particularly its "Next Generation" incarnation) by setting the main characters on a small, dingy spacecraft that had little respect in the fleet rather than on the flagship. Tales of the Star Wolf includes Voyage of the Star Wolf, The Middle of Nowhere, and Blood and Fire.