Revealed at last, the full story of Jim Kirk's lost friend, the man who helped him become the captain we know...Stardate 1312.4. -- A young Captain Kirk, early in his legendary career, faces the crisis of his life when he must kill his best friend in order to save the Enterprise. Later, alone in his quarters, be cannot help recalling how he first met Gary Mitchell: At Starfleet Academy, Gary is reckless and fun-loving while Kirk is driven, ambitious, but awkward around other people -- especially women. Their friendship begins with a fistfight. Then their routine training mission on the U.S.S. Republic is diverted to a planet where centuries of bloody interplanetary conflict are about to end in a ceremony of reconciliation. Assigned to help with security on the planet's surface, Kirk and Gary quickly find themselves in the middle of a life-and-death struggle against terrorists determined to disrupt the ceremony.
With the future of two planets at stake, Kirk and Gary must find a way to work together before a mission of life and peace becomes one of death and despair.
- ISBN10 0671019147
- ISBN13 9780671019143
- Publish Date 1 December 1998
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 11 September 2003
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Simon & Schuster
- Imprint Star Trek
- Format Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
- Pages 288
- Language English