Captain's Peril

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Author(s):	William Shatner with Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens
Publisher:	Pocket Books
Series:	Pocket TOS Totality #1
Published:	1 October 2002 (hardback) 27 January 2004 (paperback)
Pages:	335 (hardback) 389 (paperback)
Stardate:	1003.6 to 1008.8, 55595.4 to 55600.7 (2265, 2348, 2378)
Reference:	ISBN 0743448197 (hardback) ISBN 0671021281 (paperback)
Audiobook
Narrator:	William Shatner
Running Time:	2 hours, 57 minutes
Publisher:	Simon & Schuster Audio
Published:	1 October 2002
Reference:	ISBN 0743526473 (cassette) ISBN 0743526481 (CD)

Kirk relives his earliest days as Enterprise captain while fleeing a murderer on Bajor.

[edit] Summary

From the book jacket

The Dominion War is over. The Federation is at peace. What better time for two legendary starship captains to set aside the demands of duty and simply take some well-deserved time off?

But when James T. Kirk and Jean-Luc Picard arrive on Bajor to dive among the ruins of an ancient sunken city, conditions are far from what they had planned. The small group of scientists the captains have joined suddenly find their equipment sabotaged -- isolating them from Deep Space 9 and any hope of rescue -- as one by one, a murderer stalks them.

Cut off from the people and technology on which they have always depended, Kirk and Picard must rely more than ever on their own skills and abilities, and their growing friendship, to solve the mysterious deaths and protect one of Bajor's greatest living treasures.

At the same time, Kirk finds the events he and Picard struggle with are similar to one of the first challenges he faced as the new captain of the starship Enterprise, less than six months into his first five-year mission.

Now, with time running out for a dying child trapped in the scientists' camp, and Picard missing after a diving disaster, Kirk must search his memories of the past to relive one of his earliest adventures, propelling him into a harrowing personal journey that reveals the beginning of his path from young Starfleet officer to renowned legend, and the existence of a new and completely unsuspected threat to the existence of all life in the universe.

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[edit] Characters

James T. Kirk

Jean-Luc Picard

Quark

Mark Piper

John Lewinski 

Captain of USS Monitor. He perished beyond the galactic barrier with his ship and crew.

Captain Lewinski first appeared in The Return

Sel Terranova 

XO of Monitor.

[edit] References

Bajor

Deep Space 9

Mandylion Rift

USS Monitor

Starbase 324

Starbase 718

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