An intense "missing" tale from the beginning of the Star Trek movie era, when the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise was first reunited and confronting issues of both nature of God and artificial intelligence. Following the events of
Star Trek: The Motion Picture, the reunited crew of the Starship
Enterprise revisits a loose end from their earlier adventures: the resettlement of refugee colonists from a destroyed planet, whose lives have depended so long on the godlike artificial intelligence that guided them through space, they ability to survive without it is now in doubt. At the same time, Kirk, Spock, and McCoy, back together now after almost three years, must relearn how to work together in a story that examines this iconic relationship as never before.
About the AuthorBennett, Christopher L.: - Christopher L. Bennett is a lifelong resident of Cincinnati, Ohio, with bachelor's degrees in physics and history from the University of Cincinnati. He has written such critically acclaimed
Star Trek novels as
Ex Machina, The Buried Age, the Titan novels
Orion's Hounds and
Over a Torrent Sea, the two Department of Temporal Investigations novels
Watching the Clock and
Forgotten History, and the Enterprise novels
Rise of the Federation: A Choice of Futures,
Tower of Babel,
Uncertain Logic, and
Live By the Code, as well as shorter works including stories in the anniversary anthologies
Constellations, The Sky's the Limit, Prophecy and
Change, and
Distant Shores. Beyond Star Trek, he has penned the novels
X Men: Watchers on the Walls and
Spider Man: Drowned in Thunder. His original work includes the hard science fiction superhero novel
Only Superhuman, as well as several novelettes in
Analog and other science fiction magazines.