Author(s):	Pamela Sargent and George Zebrowski
Publisher:	Pocket Books
Series:	Pocket TOS #88
Published:	1 October 1999
Pages:	217
Stardate:	Unknown (2267)
Reference(s):	ISBN 0671019899

A ship from the past poses a danger to the future!

Summary Edit

From the book jacket

The Hawking left Earth during the 21st century on a one-way mission to colonize a distant world. Due to the relativistic effects of pre-warp travel, its crew has aged only thirty years while two centuries passed outside the ship. When the starship Enterprise comes to the rescue of the malfunctioning Hawking, the colonists find themselves thrust into a universe and an era that has left them behind.

Captain Kirk intends to help the colonists adjust as best he can, but the task is not a simple one. The newcomers are survivors of a more violent, more paranoid time – and they have brought old suspicions, and an ancient weapon of mass destruction, into a world of unexpected challenges and dangers.

Background Information Edit

• The Pocket Books chronology of novels places this book between TOS: "Wolf in the Fold" and "The Changeling".
• The novel contained Chapter Three of the serialized novel Starfleet: Year One.

Characters Edit

Canon characters listed below are linked to the main article about them. Non-canon characters are not linked, but those that recurred, appearing or being mentioned in more than one story, are defined further in Pocket TOS characters.

James T. Kirk

Spock

Stephen Hawking 

Namesake of the colony ship.

References Edit

USS Enterprise

Hawking 

Colony ship.

External link Edit

• Across the Universe at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works