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A ship from the past poses a danger to the future!
Across the Universe is a Pocket TOS novel – #88 in the numbered series – written by Pamela Sargent and George Zebrowski. Published by Pocket Books, it was first released in October 1999.
Summary[]
- From the book jacket
- The Hawking left Earth during the 21st century on a one-way mission to colonize a distant world. Due to the relativistic effects of pre-warp travel, its crew has aged only thirty years while two centuries passed outside the ship. When the starship Enterprise comes to the rescue of the malfunctioning Hawking, the colonists find themselves thrust into a universe and an era that has left them behind.
- Captain Kirk intends to help the colonists adjust as best he can, but the task is not a simple one. The newcomers are survivors of a more violent, more paranoid time – and they have brought old suspicions, and an ancient weapon of mass destruction, into a world of unexpected challenges and dangers.
- Excerpts of copyrighted sources are included for review purposes only, without any intention of infringement.
Background information[]
- The Pocket Books chronology of novels places this book between TOS: "Wolf in the Fold" and "The Changeling".
- The novel contained Chapter Three of the serialized novel Starfleet: Year One.
Characters[]
- Canon characters listed below are linked to the main article about them. Non-canon characters are not linked, but those that recurred, appearing or being mentioned in more than one story, are defined further in Pocket TOS characters.
- James T. Kirk
- Spock
- Stephen Hawking
- Namesake of the colony ship.
References[]
- Hawking
- Colony ship.
External link[]
- Across the Universe at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
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