Author: | Barbara Hambly |
Illustrator: | Keith Birdsong |
Publisher: | Pocket Books |
Series: | Pocket TOS #71 |
Published: | August 1994 |
Pages: | 274 |
Year: | 2269 |
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.
- Excerpts of copyrighted sources are included for review purposes only, without any intention of infringement.
Chapter One
FURTHER SUMMARY
Background Information
BACKGROUND
Memorable Quotes
QUOTES
Characters
- Lao Zhiming
- 21-year old Starfleet ensign
- Mahásë
- Communications lieutenant
- Mahásë first appeared in Diane Duane's "The Wounded Sky" (Pocket TOS #13).
- Tonia Barrows
- Operations division lieutenant.
- Winfield
- Engineering lieutenant
- Dykstra
- Bridge ops crewman.
References
- 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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