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Author: J.M. Dillard
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Publisher: Pocket Books
Series: TOS, Lost Years #1
Published: 1 August 1990
Pages: 448
Year: 22xx
Stardate: XXXX.X
Reference #: ISBN 0-671-70795-7

The Lost Years fills in the events between the end of TOS series and the beginning of the movies.

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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Plot Summary

This novel is set after the end of the original series.

The main even that occurs is a referendum where Vulcan attempts to decide to secede from the United Federation of Planets. Political figures and dignitaries are invited to offer speeches to persuade the planet. Sarek has to speak on behalf of the government and state why Vulcan should leave. Sarek claims that it is not Earth that is a bad influence on Vulcan, it is Vulcan that is a bad influence on Earth. Sarek does not want Vulcan to secede, however, because then he would have to leave Vulcan with his wife, Lady Amanda. Kirk, Spock, and McCoy all speak on the behalf of the United Federation of Planets. McCoy proves to be a particularly good orator.

The anti-Earth public sentiment was created by T'Pring in an attempt to revenge herself on Kirk and Spock for the death of her husband, Stonn.

T'Pau, the respected Vulcan matriarch, is initially supportive of the secession movement. When she discovers that it was engineered by a vengeful T'Pring, however, T'Pau recants and on her deathbed makes Lady Amanda the new matriarch of the house.

In the end, Vulcan decides not to secede.

This novel includes the intriguing character Herb Grayson, and a sentient computer on the Enterprise recreation deck.


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References

Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: The Motion Picture


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