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The Sundered

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Star Trek: The Lost Era
Mass-Market Paperback / August, 2003
384 pages
0-7434-6401-X

Written by Michael A. Martin and Andy Mangels

Description:

THE YEAR IS 2298

Five years after the presumed death of Captain James T. Kirk, the USS Excelsior, commanded by Captain Hikaru Sulu, is at the forefront of exploration, diplomacy, and the defense of the Federation.

Unprecedented peace talks with the violently xenophobic Tholian Assembly trigger a deadly confrontation aboard the Excelsior. Now Sulu and his crew--including Chekov, Rand, Chapel, Tuvok, and Akaar--are thrust into an unexpected conflict between the Tholians and a mysterious new enemy, the Neyel... whose origins, if revealed, could lead to war with Earth itself.

As the Tholians weave a web of vengeance, the Excelsior is flung beyond the galaxy to discover the hidden truth about the alien Neyel, forcing Sulu to question where his responsibilities lie--with the fragile peace he must preserve, or with the victims of his own world's tragic past.

Notes

"For what it's worth, there's a little gap-filling of the first half of ST's 21st century in Mike Martin and Andy Mangels's August Lost Era novel, The Sundered. It includes little nods to "Past Tense" and a few other episodes connected with the period. (Although I'd stop short of claiming it bridges gaps with the Eugenics Wars. More accurately, it tries to paint of picture of what went on in the years leading up to Cochrane's warp flight... from a slightly different vantage point. :-) )" -- Marco Palmieri, 6/11/03