Summary
Shortly after the Khitomer Conference (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country), James T. Kirk decides to resign from Starfleet as his old Starfleet Academy nemesis Androvar Drake is appointed commander-in-chief of Starfleet Command. Lacking any drive in his life, Kirk accepts a last chance for adventure with the seductive young Teilani who wants him to protect her paradise planet; so Kirk and Scotty take the mothballed Enterprise-A and head for Chal where a secret Starfleet cabal seek to exploit the planet for all its fountain of youth properties. The rest of the former Enterprise crew hitch a ride on Hikaru Sulu's Excelsior and together the crew once again save the Federation. The Enterprise-A is destroyed while defending the Excelsior from Klingon battle cruisers under the direction of Admiral Drake.
Background
Co-written by William Shatner, along with Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens. This is Shatner's first Star Trek collaboration. DC Comics released a comic book adaptation of this story.
Characters
- James T. Kirk
- Spock
- Leonard McCoy
- Scotty
- Hikaru Sulu
- Pavel Chekov
- Uhura
- Androvar Drake
- New Starfleet C-in-C, former USS Farragut crewmate of Jim Kirk.
- Teilani
References
- Chal
- Planet, homeworld of a colony of Klingon/Romulan hybrids.
- USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-A)
- Retired Federation starship. Jim Kirk found the ship taken out of mothballs and sold to Chal, he and Scotty command the vessel with a crew of Chal natives.
- USS Excelsior (NCC-2000)
- Federation starship.
- USS Farragut (NCC-1647)
- Constitution-class Federation starship. The ship's registry was seen in the comic adaptation, despite having previously been depicted as the same vessel, but numbered NCC-1702, in "Debt of Honor" and the Star Fleet Technical Manual.
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