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Revision as of 13:27, 3 August 2005

Cover image.
Author: Barbara Hambly
Illustrator: Keith Birdsong
Publisher: Pocket Books
Series: Pocket TOS #71
Published: August 1994
Pages: 274
Year: 2270
Stardate: 6251.1
Reference #: ISBN 0671793233

Kirk must stop a power-hungry alliance from destroying the Federation.

Summary

From the book jacket:

The crew of the Nautilus, a battered starship of mysterious origin, is beamed aboard the starship Enterprise. The group claims they are freedom fighters from the far future working to save the Federation from the Consilium, a group of corrupt power-seekers.
When the Nautilus crew members then seize control of the USS Enterprise, and a starship from the future arrives to arrest the renegades, Kirk must separate his true allies from those who wish to destroy the Federation.

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Memorable Quotes

  • "They have forgotten now-- Kirk and his crew, who answer to now master but their duties as they see them, and the dictates of their judgments and their hearts. And this is as it should be. But I have not forgotten. Nor will I, so long as I live..." -- Varos

But friends do not forget their friends. McKennon had let him die. The Consilium had let him die. -- Varos contemplating his friend's demise

  • You are my past, but I am not necessarily your future. There are a thousand possible futures, and one degree of difference in a trajectory can change a starship's path by thousands of parsecs, to destroy, or to save, a world. All we can do is try.

A thousand possible futures. Whether one was thirty-four going into a five-year mission, or thirty-nine coming out of one, wondering what the future would bring. Whatever the future actually was.

Characters

Lao Zhiming
21-year old Starfleet ensign
Mahásë
Communications lieutenant
Mahásë first appeared in Diane Duane's "The Wounded Sky" (Pocket TOS #13).
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Tonia Barrows.

Tonia Barrows
Operations division lieutenant.
Winfield
Engineering lieutenant
Dykstra
Bridge ops crewman.
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DeSalle.

DeSalle
Assistant engineer.
Kyle
transporter chief.
Dylan Arios
Sharnas
Adajia

References

Bowling alley
Recreation area aboard Enterprise.
Constitution-class
Type of Federation starship
Crossroad Nebula
Nebula. Following the disappearance of a Federation scout, the nebula was declared a "standing hazard".
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701)
Federation starship.
gymnasium
Located on deck 8 of the Enterprise.
USS Harriet Tubman
Federation scout, crew of 12, disappeared near the Crossroad Nebula in 2265.
Nautilus
Alternate future Constitution class starship.
p'laaka
Vulcan language term for something prone to unpredictable events, like the Crossroad's sector.
Sagittarius
Free trader vessel lost near te Crossroad.
space buoy
Placed around Tau Lyra system.
Tau Lyra system
Star system.
Tau Lyra III
Planet.
Turtldovve Anomaly Point
Type of spatial distortion reputed to exist in the Crossroad.


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