Author(s):	Steve Mollmann and Michael Schuster
Artist(s):	Alan Dingman
Publisher:	Pocket Books
Series:	Pocket TOS
Published:	30 August 2011
Pages:	352
Stardate:	Unknown (2268)
Reference(s):	ISBN 1451607164

A Choice of Catastrophes is a Pocket TOS novel by Steve Mollmann and Michael Schuster. Released in August 2011, the novel is set during the series timeframe, and has a particular focus on Leonard McCoy.

Summary Edit

From the book jacket

The USS Enterprise, under the command of Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu, is returning from a mission to deliver medical supplies to Deep Space Station C-15, one of Starfleet's most distant installations. All is routine until the Enterprise comes within a light-year of the planet Mu Arigulon, when the ship is suddenly thrown from warp and suffers a momentary power cut, having run aground on a spatial distortion not revealed in previous scans of the system. When the pride of Starfleet hits another, much worse distortion, Dr. Leonard McCoy has his hands full caring for officers who have suddenly fallen into comas for no apparent reason. The Enterprise medical team soon discovers that the dying officers are espers–humans with a rare and abnormal level of telepathic and psychic ability. With no choice but to link to the officers' minds in order to come to their aid, McCoy is plunged into a nightmarish dream-world... with the end result being nothing short of the possible destruction of the Enterprise and all aboard her...

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Background information Edit

• The novel was announced by Schuster on 4 May 2010. [1] It was originally scheduled for a July 2011 release, according to Star Trek Magazine issue 154, but later swapped places with Cast No Shadow in the schedule.

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