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Author: | Lee Correy |
Illustrator: | uncredited |
Publisher: | Pocket Books |
Series: | Pocket TOS |
Published: | May 1982 |
Pages: | 207 |
Year: | 2268 |
Stardate: | 5064.4 to 5099.5 |
Reference #: | ISBN 0671832972 |
The Enterprise is caught between its own survival--and the destruction of an innocent, isolated world!
Summary
- The citizens of Mercan cannot concieve of worlds beyond their own. Their sun, Mercaniad, is prone to deadly, radioactive flare-ups, and the Mercans have organized their lives around the need to survive The Ordeal--until a strange visitor appears from out of nowhere...
- The USS Enterprise, badly crippled and in desperate need of repairs, must seek help from a people who cannot believe in its existence. Mercaniad is about to blow, and James Kirk faces an impossible choice: to attack the sun itself and save his ship and crew--or let a people live in peace, in the only world they know...the abode of life.
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Background Information
Although the cover art depicts Kirk and Spock in Star Trek: The Motion Picture-era uniforms, the stardate and the Pocket Books timeline place this adventure in 2268 (in accordance with Rand being portrayed as a yeoman rather than a chief).
Characters
References
- Berthold ray
- Mercaniad emitted Berthold rays during "The Ordeal"
- Mercan
- Mercaniad
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