the tears of the singers (star trek: the original series book 19)  <b> the tears of the singers</b> <br /> captain kirk and the u.s.s <i>enterprise</i> join the klingons to avert disaster in the taygeta v system -- where a time/space warp has swallowed a spaceship without a trace. spock suspects a link between the anomaly and the inhabitants of taygeta, semi-aquatic creatures killed for the jewel-like tears secreted at the moment of death. but a mutinous klingon officer threatens the vital mission, as a desperate kirk and spock race to save the taygetians, the federation -- and the entire universe!