NOVEL
The Three-Minute Universe
Attribution
Series:	The Original Series, No. 41
Author(s):	Barbara Paul
Publication information
Publisher:	Pocket Books
Published:	Paperback - August 1988
Pages:	265
ISBN:	ISBN 0671658166
Chronology
Date:	2269

The galaxy is on fire, and only the Enterprise can save it.

Contents 1 Introduction (blurb) 2 Summary 3 References 3.1 Characters 3.2 Starships and vehicles 3.3 Locations 3.4 Materials and substances 3.5 Races and cultures 3.6 States and organizations 3.7 Other 4 Information 5 Related Stories 6 Images 7 Connections

Introduction (blurb)Edit

From the book jacket 

The Sackers. In all Captain James T. Kirk's travels, he has never found a race more universally shunned and abhorred. Their mere appearance causes most Federation members to become violently ill.

Now the Sackers have performed a deed whose brutally matches their horrifying exterior. They have stolen a revolutionary new scientific device - murdering an entire race in the process - and used it to create a rip in the fabric of space, a hole through which another universe is rapidly leaking. Unless Captain Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise can find a way to stop the new universe's expansion, it will consume - and utterly destroy - our own.

SummaryEdit

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ReferencesEdit

CharactersEdit

James T. Kirk • Spock • Leonard McCoy • Montgomery Scott • Hikaru Sulu • Pavel Chekov • Nyota Uhura • Christine Chapel • Kyle • Babe • Berengaria • Blue • Bonesovna • Brownie • Ching • Dorelian • Franklin • Green • Hrolfson • Iris • Ivan • Jonquil • Misterma'am • Orangejuiceandwodka • Pinky • Quinlan • Rasputin • Rose • Borkel Mershaya ev Symwid • Toots • Wittering

Referenced only 

Rube Goldberg • T'iana

Starships and vehiclesEdit

USS Enterprise (Constitution-class) • hovercraft • Babe in Arms

LocationsEdit

Argelius II • Beta Castelli • Beta Castelli I • Beta Castelli II • Beta Castelli IV • Deep Space Station K-7 • Elas • Gelchen • Holox • Platonius • sector 79F • Starbase 4 • Triskelion • Zirgos

Materials and substancesEdit

alkaloid • alphidium • helium • hydrogen • proqualine • tridocane • zyroplex

Races and culturesEdit

Elasian • Gelchenite • Human • Klingon • Vinithi (Sacker) • Vulcan • Zirgosian

States and organizationsEdit

Gelchen Transgalactic Trade Commission • Klingon Empire • United Federation of Planets • Starfleet • Starfleet Command

OtherEdit

baryon • baryon reverter • blood • borscht • brain • chicken Kiev • cryptoanalysis • deflector dish • dilithium reactor room • G class star • Immelmann turn • photon grenade • main sequence • minute • mortar • plasmicophic ferangulator • probe • REM sleep • sonic hypnosis-inducer • star • star system • supernova • universe

InformationEdit

This was Barbara Paul's only Star Trek novel. The cover artist is uncredited. The title refers to the state of a universe that is only three minutes old.

Related StoriesEdit

The idea of another universe beginning within our own was later included in DS9 episode: "Playing God".

ImagesEdit

ConnectionsEdit

published order
Previous novel: Timetrap	TOS numbered novels	Next novel: Memory Prime
Previous novel: Timetrap	TOS novels	Next novel: Spock's World
chronological order
Previous Adventure: Killing Time	Pocket	Next Adventure: The Cry of the Onlies
Previous Adventure: Killing Time	Voyages of the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) (2264 to 2270)	Next Adventure: The Cry of the Onlies