Description
En route to an important diplomatic reception, the USS Enterprise suddenly is set upon by a Klingon warship. This unprovoked assault, Kirk discovers, is in response to what the Klingon ship's captain claims are recent Federation attacks on several Klingon vessels which have disappeared.
Managing to secure a truce, Captain Kirk reaches the reception only to find out it is not just Klingon ships that are disappearing, but Federation vessels, Romulan Birds of Prey, and ships from almost every known race are vanishing without a trace.
Now, Captain Kirk and the crew of the Starship Enterprise must determine the fate of the missing ships before the entire known galaxy is drawn into a deadly conflict.
References
Characters
- James T. Kirk • Spock • Leonard McCoy • Montgomery Scott • Hikaru Sulu • Uhura • Pavel Chekov • Christine Chapel • Brewster • Clark • Favere • Foss • Goshalk • Iola • Conrad Franklin Kent • Kroeber • Kyle • Lungo • Miraskin • Nogura • Omen • Hazel Payton • Plumtree • Ruho • Bahia Slocum • Torm
- Referenced only
- Jorge Luis Borges • Samuel Butler • Georg Cantor • Carter • Eliot • Sigmund Freud • Khan • John Milton • Barbara Omen • Pan • William Shakespeare • John Wayne
Starships and vehicles
- USS Enterprise (Constitution-class) • IKS Kormak • class-J freighter • Erehwon
- Referenced only
- USS Crockett
Locations
- Pegasus IV • Sector 412 • Starbase 12 • Starbase 23
- Referenced only
- Moscow • Prufrock's World • Sector 39J • United States
Races and cultures
- Human (Native American • Russian) • Horta • Klingee • Klingon • Vulcan
- Referenced only
- G'lops • Organian • Orion slave girl • Romulan
States and organizations
- Enyart's • Federation Council • Klingon Empire • Starfleet • Starfleet Academy • Starfleet Command • Starfleet Medical Corps • Starfleet Operations • United Federation of Planets
Other references
- 19th century • acetylcholine • alcohol • Aleph • Altairian devil • American Civil War • American Wild West • asteroid • Bass • beard • bridge • brig • buffalo • cape • Chablis • checkers • coffee • communicator • corn • cranial interface • crustacean • cyclor • daystromite • doughnut • Earther • engineering • food synthesizer • giant amoeba • hallucination • Heaven • Henry V • hyper-anchor • hypospray • ice cream • intercom • iron • kebo • intercom • jumpsuit • klaxon • lead • medical tricorder • mushroom • negative energy • nickel • observation lounge • onion • phaser • photon torpedo • pocket universe • poker • rec room • Rigellian husk • sabora • Saurian brandy • sensor • sensor net • sensory augmenter • She Wore a Yellow Ribbon • shield generator • shore leave • sickbay • skeleton crew • subspace radio • tea • The Wizard of Oz • three-dimensional chess • Through the Looking Glass • tractor beam • transporter • transporter room • transtator • transwarp drive • tree • turbolift • universe • viewscreen • Vulcan nerve pinch • warp engine • water • wine • yellow alert
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