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The Rings of Time is a Pocket TOS novel by Greg Cox, released in January 2012.

Summary

Solicitation blurb: 2020 The U.S.S. Lewis & Clark, under the command of Colonel Shaun Christopher, sets off on humanity's first manned mission to Saturn. But the unexpected presence of a stowaway complicates the mission – as does a startling encounter with an alien probe. But when Colonel Christopher attempts to capture the probe, he suddenly finds himself transported across time and space to a future era of space exploration...

Stardate 7103.4 The USS Enterprise responds to an urgent distress call from a mining colony orbiting Klondike VI, a ringed gas giant not unlike Saturn. For unknown reasons, the planet's rings are coming apart, threatening the safety of the colony and its inhabitants. Searching for a way to avert the disaster, Captain James T. Kirk and his crew investigate a mysterious alien probe that has just entered the system. But when the probe is beamed aboard, Kirk abruptly finds himself floating in space above Saturn, wearing an old-fashioned NASA spacesuit, with the Enterprise nowhere in sight...

Two missions. Two crews. And a time-twisting crisis that spans the centuries...

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Background information

The novel was announced by Cox on 17 April 2011, following the signing of contracts. [1]
The name of the USS Lewis & Clark and the 2020 launch date of the Earth-Saturn probe, the first manned mission from Earth to Saturn, are both taken from the reference book Star Trek Spaceflight Chronology, ignoring the 2009 launch date from the Star Trek Chronology.

Cover gallery

Characters

James T. Kirk
Spock
Leonard McCoy
Montgomery Scott
Nyota Uhuru
Hikaru Sulu
Pavel Chekov
Christine Chapel
Shaun Christopher
Alice Fontana
Marcus O'Herlihy

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 | Author            = [[Greg Cox]]
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+| Artist            = [[Nicolas Bouvier|Sparth (Nicolas Bouvier)]]
 | Publisher         = [[Pocket Books]]
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 | Published         = {{d|31|January|2012}}
 | Pages             = 304
-| Year              =
+| Year              = [[June]] to [[October]] [[2020]], [[2270]]
-| Stardate          =
+| Stardate          = 7103.4 - 7104.2
-| ISBN              = 1451655479
+| ISBN              = 1451655479 (paperback)<br>{{ASIN|B005O315PM}} (Kindle)
 }}
-'''''The Rings of Time''''' is a forthcoming [[Pocket TOS]] novel by [[Greg Cox]]. Scheduled to be released in {{m|January|2012}}, the novel was announced by Cox on {{d|17|April|2011}}, following the signing of contracts. In the announcement, Cox mentioned [[Shaun Geoffrey Christopher]] as having relevance to the novel. [http://www.trekbbs.com/showpost.php?p=4892935&postcount=1]
+'''''The Rings of Time''''' is a [[Pocket TOS]] novel by [[Greg Cox]], released in {{m|January|2012}}.
 == Summary ==
 ;Solicitation blurb
+:'''''2020''' The U.S.S. ''Lewis & Clark'', under the command of Colonel [[Shaun Geoffrey Christopher|Shaun Christopher]], sets off on humanity's first manned mission to [[Saturn]]. But the unexpected presence of a stowaway complicates the mission &ndash; as does a startling encounter with an alien probe. But when Colonel Christopher attempts to capture the probe, he suddenly finds himself transported across time and space to a future era of space exploration...''
-:''The {{USS|Enterprise|NCC-1701}} responds to an SOS from a vital dilithium-mining colony in the Klondike system. The colony is located on Skagway, a moon orbiting Klondike-6, a gas giant not unlike [[Saturn]]. For unknown reasons, the planet's rings are coming apart, threatening the colony and its inhabitants. [[James T. Kirk|Kirk]] and his crew need to find a solution&ndash;fast. There are more than 3,000 colonists, including hundreds of families, on Skagway, which is more than even the ''Enterprise'' can take on, and there are no other rescue ships or habitable planets anywhere in the vicinity. ''
-:''Meanwhile, a approaching comet that may be the source of the crisis threatening Skagway turns out to be a mysterious alien probe. Sensors indicate that the probe is incredibly old and running low on power. Suspecting that the probe may have something to do with the crisis threatening Skagway, Kirk has the probe beamed aboard the ''Enterprise''. Suddenly after a blinding flash, Kirk suddenly finds himself floating in orbit above Saturn in our solar system, drifting in space wearing an old-fashioned [[NASA]] spacesuit. What just happened...?''
+:'''''Stardate 7103.4''' The {{USS|Enterprise|NCC-1701}} responds to an urgent distress call from a mining colony orbiting Klondike VI, a ringed gas giant not unlike Saturn. For unknown reasons, the planet's rings are coming apart, threatening the safety of the colony and its inhabitants. Searching for a way to avert the disaster, Captain [[James T. Kirk]] and his crew investigate a mysterious alien probe that has just entered the system. But when the probe is beamed aboard, Kirk abruptly finds himself floating in space above Saturn, wearing an old-fashioned [[NASA]] spacesuit, with the ''Enterprise'' nowhere in sight...''
+:''Two missions. Two crews. And a time-twisting crisis that spans the centuries...''
 :{{review}}
+== Background information ==
+*The novel was announced by Cox on {{d|17|April|2011}}, following the signing of contracts. [http://www.trekbbs.com/showpost.php?p=4892935&postcount=1]
+*The name of the USS ''Lewis & Clark'' and the [[2020]] launch date of the [[Earth-Saturn probe]], the first manned mission from [[Earth]] to [[Saturn]], are both taken from the reference book ''[[Star Trek Spaceflight Chronology]]'', ignoring the [[2009]] launch date from the ''[[Star Trek Chronology]]''.
+=== Cover gallery ===
+<gallery>
+File:The Rings of Time solicitation cover August 2011.jpg|Solicitation cover, August 2011
+File:The Rings of Time solicitation cover.jpg|Second iteration of the solicitation cover
+File:Continuing Missions Vol 1.jpg|The Continuing Mission Volume 1 cover
+</gallery>
+== Characters ==
+; [[James T. Kirk]]
+; [[Spock]]
+; [[Leonard McCoy]]
+; [[Montgomery Scott]]
+; [[Nyota Uhuru]]
+; [[Hikaru Sulu]]
+; [[Pavel Chekov]]
+; [[Christine Chapel]]
+; [[Shaun Geoffrey Christopher|Shaun Christopher]]
+; [[Fontana|Alice Fontana]]
+; [[O'Herlihy (astronaut)|Marcus O'Herlihy]]
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