The writer-producer who created Mr. Spock and all the other Star Trek Characters - who invented the Starship Enterprise, who gave the show its Look, its ideals - puts it all together again here in his first Star Trek novel! Their historic five-year mission is over. Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Scotty all the crew have scattered to other jobs or other lives. Now, they are back together again on a fabulously refitted U.S.S. Enterprise as an incredibly destructive power threatens earth and the human race.