Author(s):	Michael Jan Friedman
Publisher:	Pocket Books
Series:	Pocket TOS #85 My Brother's Keeper #1
Published:	January 1999
Pages:	288
Stardate:	1312.4 (2251 / 2265)
Reference(s):	ISBN 0671019147 (paperback) ISBN 0743454022 (eBook) ASIN B000FC0TD6 (Kindle)

A friendship that ends with tragedy begins with adventure!

SummaryEdit

From the book jacket

Revealed at last, the full story of Jim Kirk's lost friend, the man who helped him become the captain we know....

Stardate 1312.4. – A young Captain Kirk, early in his legendary career, faces the crisis of his life when he must kill his best friend in order to save the Enterprise. Later, alone in his quarters, be cannot help recalling how he first met Gary Mitchell:

At Starfleet Academy, Gary is reckless and fun-loving while Kirk is driven, ambitious, but awkward around other people – especially women. Their friendship begins with a fistfight. Then their routine training mission on the USS Republic is diverted to a planet where centuries of bloody interplanetary conflict are about to end in a ceremony of reconciliation. Assigned to help with security on the planet's surface, Kirk and Gary quickly find themselves in the middle of a life-and-death struggle against terrorists determined to disrupt the ceremony.

With the future of two planets at stake, Kirk and Gary must find a way to work together before a mission of life and peace becomes one of death and despair.

Background InformationEdit

• First of three books in My Brother's Keeper miniseries.
• An extract from this novel appeared in Star Trek Monthly issue 48.

CharactersEdit

James T. Kirk

Gary Mitchell

ReferencesEdit

USS Republic

External link Edit

• Republic (novel) at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works