Author(s):	J.M. Dillard
Publisher:	Pocket Books
Series:	Pocket TOS Lost Years #1
Published:	September 1989 (hardback) 1 August 1990 (paperback)
Pages:	307 (hardback) 448 (paperback)
Stardate:	Unknown (2271)
Reference(s):	ISBN 0671682938 (hardback) ISBN 0671707957 (paperback)
Audiobook
Narrator:	Leonard Nimoy and James Doohan
Running Time:	3 hours
Publisher:	Simon & Schuster Audio
Published:	1 October 1989
Reference(s):	ISBN 0671686321

The missing chapter in Star Trek history - revealed at last!

Contents 1 Summary 2 Background Information 3 Characters 4 References 5 External link

SummaryEdit

From the book jacket

After the end of the Enterprise's five-year mission, Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, and Dr. McCoy struggle to establish new lives apart from each other and the starship. The newly-promoted Admiral Kirk is placed in charge of a specially-created Starfleet division and attempts to defuse a critical hostage situation; Mr. Spock, who, in the midst of a teaching assignment on Vulcan, finds the one thing he least expected; and Dr. McCoy, whose unerring instinct for trouble lands him smack in the middle of an incident that could trigger an interstellar bloodbath.

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Background InformationEdit

• The first book in the Lost Years series, which fills in the gap between the end of the five year mission and the events of Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
• Admiral Nogura's promotion of Kirk in the novel follows in the aftermath of the events in the novel Dreadnought! and the scandal surrounding the disgraced Admiral Rittenhouse.

CharactersEdit

James T. Kirk

Spock

Leonard McCoy

Kevin Riley

Nogura

ReferencesEdit

External link Edit

• The Lost Years at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works

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