- Science fiction, James T. Kirk (Fictitious character), American Science fiction, Spock (Fictitious character)
A routine diplomatic mission to the water-world Akkalla becomes a nightmarish search for a missing Spock and Chekov, a search that plunges Admiral Kirk headlong into a corrupt government's desperate struggle to retain power.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and unpretentious.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Howard Weinstein
- First published
- September 1, 1988
- Pages
- 275
- Publisher
- Star Trek, Pocket Books, Titan Books
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780907610861
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- Science fiction
- James T. Kirk (Fictitious character)
- American Science fiction
- Spock (Fictitious character)
- Star Trek fiction
- Interplanetary voyages
- Fiction
- Leonard McCoy (Fictitious character)
- collectionID:ST#
- Kirk, james t. (fictitious character), fiction
- Spock (fictitious character), fiction
- Chekov, pavel (fictitious character), fiction
Writer Howard Weinstein had been a fan of space exploration following the flight of NASA astronaut Alan Shepard on Mercury-Redstone 3. He recalled that his first experience of Star Trek was in middle school, where he mixed elements of the show up with Lost in Space. He began watching the show and was inspired to write for television after reading The Making of Star Trek by Gene Roddenberry and Stephen E. Whitfield. While in the 11th grade, he had a Star Trek short story published in the fanzine Probe, which was a yearly publication in East Meadow High School. Weinstein also wrote a script for Mission: Impossible, but the script was turned down as it was not submitted via an agent. It was ret
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