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Author: William Shatner, with Judith Reeves-Stevens & Garfield Reeves-Stevens
Publisher: Pocket Books
Series: Pocket TOS
Published: June 1995
Pages: 309
Year:
Stardate: 9854.1
Reference #: ISBN 0671520369

Summary

In the 24th century, Spock arrives on Veridian III to pay his final respects to his former captain, and greatest friend, James T. Kirk. Kirk risked his life to bring back Spock, but there was no way to bring back Kirk.

In the 23rd century, shortly after the Khitomer Conference (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country), James T. Kirk decides to resign from Starfleet as his old Starfleet Academy nemesis Androvar Drake is appointed commander-in-chief of Starfleet Command. Lacking any drive in his life, Kirk accepts a last chance for adventure with the seductive young Teilani who wants him to protect her paradise planet; so Kirk and Scotty take the mothballed Enterprise-A and head for Chal where a secret Starfleet cabal seek to exploit the planet for all its fountain of youth properties. The rest of the former Enterprise crew hitch a ride on Hikaru Sulu's Excelsior and together the crew once again save the Federation. The Enterprise-A is destroyed while defending the Excelsior from Klingon battle cruisers under the direction of Admiral Drake.

Back in the 24th century Spock is preparing to escort Kirk's body back to Earth, when a ray of light emerges from Kirk's grave. Spock approaches it to investigate, and finds, Kirk is gone...

Background

Co-written by William Shatner, along with Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens. This is Shatner's first Star Trek collaboration. DC Comics released a comic book adaptation of this story.

Characters

James T. Kirk
Spock
Leonard McCoy
Scotty
Hikaru Sulu
Pavel Chekov
Uhura
Androvar Drake
New Starfleet C-in-C, former USS Farragut crewmate of Jim Kirk.
Teilani

References

Chal
Planet, homeworld of a colony of Klingon/Romulan hybrids.
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-A)
Retired Federation starship. Jim Kirk found the ship taken out of mothballs and sold to Chal, he and Scotty command the vessel with a crew of Chal natives.
USS Excelsior (NCC-2000)
Federation starship.
USS Farragut (NCC-1647)
Constitution-class Federation starship. The ship's registry was seen in the comic adaptation, despite having previously been depicted as the same vessel, but numbered NCC-1702, in "Debt of Honor" and the Star Fleet Technical Manual.


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