Academy: Collision Course

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Collision Course is the tenth book in the "Shatnerverse" book series, though chronologically the earliest, set before Star Trek: The Original Series as James T. Kirk enters Starfleet Academy.

Contents 1 Introduction (blurb) 2 Summary 3 Characters 3.1 Regulars 3.2 Others 4 References 4.1 Starships and vehicles 4.2 Locations 4.3 Races and cultures 4.4 States and organisations 4.5 Other 5 Information 5.1 Related Stories 6 Connections

[edit] Introduction (blurb)

From Amazon.com...

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 mistery 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.

[edit] Summary

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[edit] Characters

[edit] Regulars

James T. Kirk • Spock

[edit] Others

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

[edit] References

[edit] Starships and vehicles

K-series vehicle • Pacific Rome • Sky Rover • staff car

[edit] Locations

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 •

[edit] Races and cultures

Andorian • Denobulan • Romulan • Vulcan/Vulcanian

[edit] States and organisations

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

[edit] Other

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

[edit] Information

[edit] Related Stories

[edit] Connections

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	Trial Run	-

published order
Previous novel: Captain's Glory	TOS novels Shatnerverse	Next novel: TBA
Previous novel: Epiphany	TOS novels	Next novel: 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
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