NOVEL
Academy: Collision Course
Attribution
Series:	The Original Series
Author(s):	William Shatner with Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens
Publication information
Published:	Hardcover - October 2007
Reprint(s):	Paperback - November 2008
Pages:	464
ISBN:	1-416-50396-X

Collision Course is set before Star Trek: The Original Series as James T. Kirk enters Starfleet Academy.

Contents 1 Introduction (blurb) 2 Summary 3 References 3.1 Characters 3.2 Starships and vehicles 3.3 Locations 3.4 Races and cultures 3.5 States and organizations 3.6 Other 4 Information 4.1 Related Stories 5 Connections

Introduction (blurb)Edit

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If you think you know how it all began, think again...

Young Jim Kirk wants nothing to do with Starfleet, and never wants to leave Earth. In the summer of 2249, he's a headstrong seventeen-year-old barely scraping by in San Francisco, haunted by horrific memories from his past.

In the same city, a nineteen-year-old alien named Spock is determined to rise above the emotional turmoil of his mixed-species heritage. He's equally determined to show his parents he has what it takes to be a Vulcan - even it means exposing a mysterious conspiracy at the heart of the Vulcan Embassy, stretching to the farthest reaches of the Federation's borders. There, a chilling new threat has arisen to test Federation's deepest held belief that war is a thing of the past and that a secure future can be forged through peaceful means alone. But it is in San Francisco, home to Starfleet Academy, where that threat will be met by two troubled teenage boys driven to solve the mystery that links them both.

In time, the universe will come to know these young rebels as Captain James T. Kirk and Mr. Spock...two of the Federation's greatest heroes. Yet before they were heroes, they were simply conflicted teenagers, filled with raw ambition and talent, not yet seasoned by wisdom and experience, searching for their unique directions in life - a destiny they'll discover on one fateful night in San Francisco, when two lives collide, and two legends are born.

STAR TREK: ACADEMY: COLLISION COURSE sets the stage for an exciting new era of Star Trek adventure, and for the first time reveals Kirk and Spock as they were , and how they began their journey to become the Kirk and Spock we know today.

SummaryEdit

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ReferencesEdit

CharactersEdit

James T. Kirk • Spock • Zee Bayloff • Matthew Caul • Elissa Corso • Dala • Shaun Finnegan • Gilfillan • Amanda Grayson • Abel Griffyn • Kest (Vulcan) • Aki Kimura • Kodos • George Joseph Kirk • George Samuel Kirk • Eugene Mallory • Rickard • Sarek • Strad • Edith Zaglada

Starships and vehiclesEdit

K-series vehicle • Pacific Rome • Sky Rover • staff car • USS Ames • USS Enterprise

LocationsEdit

Archer Hall • Burke Hall •The Garden of Venus • Helstrom III • Lily Sloane Complex • Mayweather Building • Menzel V • New City • Presidio Gate • San Francisco • Spacedock • Starfleet Academy • Starfleet Headquarters • Stockholm • Tarsus IV • Tucker Building • Vulcan Embassy •

Races and culturesEdit

Andorian • Denobulan • Romulan • Vulcan/Vulcanian

States and organizationsEdit

Central Bureau of Penology • Department of General Services • San Francisco Protective Services • Starfleet Criminal Investigative Service • Starfleet Security

OtherEdit

automated cargo handler • bicorder • Casimir emitter • consular agents • credit wafer • dilithium • encryption key • Enlightenment (Vulcan) • groundcar • kaiidth • protectors • sehlat • seleth • telomere scanner

InformationEdit

Related StoriesEdit

ConnectionsEdit

The character of Aki Kimura is supposedly the great-grandson of Hoshi Sato. Hoshi and her husband, Takashi Kimura, perished on Tarsus IV, according to the text prepared for a Starfleet computer screen for ENT episode: "In a Mirror, Darkly", but their names are not actually mentioned in the novel.

Star Trek novels by William Shatner
Odyssey:	The Ashes of Eden	The Return	Avenger
Mirror Universe:	Spectre	Dark Victory	Preserver
Totality:	Captain's Peril	Captain's Blood	Captain's Glory
The Academy:	Collision Course

Stories set in Starfleet Academy
Comics	Starfleet Academy ("Prime Directives" • "Liberty" • "Loyalty Test" • "War and Peace") • Starfleet Academy!
Movies	Starfleet Academy SCISEC Briefs ("SCISEC Brief 001: Mystery Behind Voyager" • "SCISEC Brief 002: Mystery Behind Ceti Alpha VI" • "SCISEC Brief 003: Mystery Behind the Vulcan Katra Transfer" • "SCISEC Brief 004: The Whale Probe" • "SCISEC Brief 005: Nimbus III" • "SCISEC Brief 006: Praxis" )
Novels	Starfleet Academy - video game novelization • Starfleet Academy (1990s book series) ("Crisis on Vulcan" • "Aftershock" • "Cadet Kirk" • "Worf's First Adventure" • "Line of Fire" • "Survival" • "Lifeline" • "The Chance Factor" • "Quarantine") • The Best and the Brightest • Academy: Collision Course • Starfleet Academy (The Delta Anomaly • The Edge • The Gemini Agent • The Assassination Game)
Short stories	"The Bottom Line" • "Best Tools Available"
Video games	Starfleet Academy Starship Bridge Simulator • Starfleet Academy • Starfleet Academy: Strategic Command • Starfleet Academy: Chekov's Lost Missions • Academy Trainer • Cadet Training Facility
Live performances	Star Trek Live

published order
Previous novel: Captain's Glory	TOS novels	Next novel: TBA
Previous novel: Epiphany	TOS novels	Next novel: Excelsior: Forged in Fire
Previous novel: Epiphany	Star Trek hardcovers	Next novel: TBA
Previous novel: Captain's Glory	Novels by: William Shatner, Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens	Next novel: TBA
chronological order
Previous Adventure: Not yet placed	Memory Beta Chronology	Next Adventure: Not yet placed