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Revision as of 05:40, 8 January 2006
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| Author: | Lee Correy |
| Publisher: | Pocket Books |
| Series: | Pocket TOS |
| Published: | May 1982 |
| Pages: | 207 |
| Year: | 2268 |
| Stardate: | 5064.4 to 5099.5 |
| Reference #: | ISBN 0671832972 |
The Enterprise is caught between its own survival--and the destruction of an innocent, isolated world!
Summary
- The citizens of Mercan cannot concieve of worlds beyond their own. Their sun, Mercaniad, is prone to deadly, radioactive flare-ups, and the Mercans have organized their lives around the need to survive The Ordeal--until a strange visitor appears from out of nowhere...
- The USS Enterprise, badly crippled and in desperate need of repairs, must seek help from a people who cannot believe in its existence. Mercaniad is about to blow, and James Kirk faces an impossible choice: to attack the sun itself and save his ship and crew--or let a people live in peace, in the only world they know... the abode of life.
- Excerpts of copyrighted sources are included for review purposes only, without any intention of infringement.
Background
Although the cover art depicts Kirk and Spock in Star Trek: The Motion Picture-era uniforms, the stardate and the Pocket Books timeline place this adventure in 2268 (in accordance with Rand being portrayed as a yeoman rather than a chief).
Characters
- James Kirk
- Enterprise captain.
- Spock
- Enterprise exec and science officer.
- Janice Rand
- Enterprise yeoman.
- M'Benga
- Enterprise assistant medical officer.
References
- Berthold ray
- Mercaniad emitted Berthold rays during "The Ordeal"
- Mercan
- Mercaniad
- Phoenix
- A scoutship. See Phoenix for ships of the same name.
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