Author(s):	David R. George III
Publisher:	Pocket Books
Series:	Pocket TOS Crucible
Published:	29 August 2006
Pages:	640
Stardate:	Unknown (2267)
Reference(s):	ISBN 0743491688 (paperback) ASIN B000JMKRG6 (Kindle)

The first in a trilogy marking the 40th anniversary of Star Trek, focusing on the character of Leonard McCoy.

SummaryEdit

From the book jacket

IN A SINGLE MOMENT

...the lives of three men will be forever changed. In that split second, defined paradoxically by both salvation and loss, they will destroy the world and then restore it. Much had come before, and much would come after, but nothing would color their lives more than that one, isolated instant on the edge of forever.

IN A SINGLE MOMENT

...Leonard McCoy, displaced in time, saves a woman from dying in a traffic accident, and in so doing alters Earth's history. Stranded in the past, he struggles to find a way back to his own century. But living an existence he was not meant to, he will eventually have to move on, and ultimately face the shadows born of his lost life.

IN A SINGLE MOMENT

...Leonard McCoy, displaced in time, is prevented from saving a woman from dying in a traffic accident, allowing Earth's history to remain unchanged. Returning to the present, he encounters a medical mystery he is committed to solving. But the echoes of an existence he never lived haunt him, and the specter of a premature death will bring him full circle to the shadows he has never faced.

FURTHER SUMMARY

Memorable QuotesEdit

Background InformationEdit

• An extract from this novel appeared in Star Trek Magazine issue 128.

CharactersEdit

Tonia Barrows

Bates

Christine Chapel

Pavel Chekov

DeSalle

Hadley

Edith Keeler

James T. Kirk

Peter Kirk

Korax

Leslie

M'Benga

Joanna McCoy

Leonard McCoy

Natira

Nogura

Palmer

Rahda

Benny Russell

Montgomery Scott

Spock

Hikaru Sulu

Nyota Uhura

Zahra

Zarabeth

ReferencesEdit

Barrows, Tonia; Carrington Award; chroniton; Comparative Alien Physiology; Data; Enterprise, USS (NCC-1701); Enterprise, USS (NCC-1701-A); Enterprise, USS (NCC-1701-B); Enterprise, USS (NCC-1701-D); Fabrini; Guardian of Forever; Keeler, Edith; Kirk, James T.; M'Benga; McCoy, David; McCoy, Joanna; McCoy, Leonard; Natira; Nexus; Nogura; Spock; Twenty-First Street Mission; World War II; Vegan choriomeningitis; xenopolycythemia; Yonada; Zee-Magnees Prize

External link Edit

• Provenance of Shadows at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works