- Science fiction, Star Trek fiction, American Science fiction, James T. Kirk (Fictitious character)
On a routine exploratory mission, the starship USS Hood picks up a distress signal from a research expedition thought lost long ago—the expedition of Dr. Roger Korby, one of the centuries' greatest scientific minds.
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Unpretentious, classical in form, nostalgic and grave.
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Michael Jan Friedman
- First published
- 1989
- Pages
- 308
- Publisher
- Pocket, Star Trek, Pocket Books
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- und, English
- ISBN
- 9780743419963
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Michael Jan Friedman (born March 7, 1955) is a New York City born American author of nearly sixty books of fiction and nonfiction, more than half of which are in licensed tie-in products of the Star Trek franchise. Ten of his titles have appeared on the New York Times Best Seller list. Friedman has also written for network and cable television, radio, more than 150 comic books, most of them for DC Comics.
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