Author(s):	Barbara Paul
Publisher:	Pocket Books
Series:	Pocket TOS #41 Titan Books #13
Published:	August 1988
Pages:	265
Stardate:	Unknown (2369)
Reference(s):	ISBN 0671658166 (paperback) ASIN B000FC0VM0 (Kindle)

The Galaxy is on fire. And only the Enterprise can save it.

Plot SummaryEdit

From the book jacket

The Sackers. In all Captain James T. Kirk's travels, he has never found a race more universally shunned and abhorred. Their mere appearance caused most Federation members to become violently ill.

Now the Sackers have performed a deed whose brutality matches their horrifying exterior. They have stolen a revolutionary new scientific device - murdering an entire race in the process - and used it to create a rip in the fabric of space, a hole through which another universe is rapidly leaking. Unless Captain Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise can find a way to stop the new universe's expansion, it will consume - and utterly destroy - our own.

Background InformationEdit

• This is the only Star Trek novel written by Barbara Paul.
• The title refers to the state of a universe that is only three minutes old.

CharactersEdit

James T. Kirk 

Captain.

Spock

Uhura

Montgomery Scott

Pavel Chekov

Berengaria 

Lieutenant.

External linksEdit

• The Three-Minute Universe at Wikipedia
• The Three-Minute Universe at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works