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NOVEL
Captain's Peril
Attribution

Introduction (blurb)

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.

Summary

Characters

Regulars

Dukat • James T. Kirk • Jean-Luc Picard • Montgomery Scott • Spock • Uhura

Others

Aku Sale • Lloyd Alden • Arl Kresin • Arl Trufor • Atal • Avden Lara • Corrin Tal • Exsin Morr • Freen Ulfreen • Nilan Artir • Norinda • Mark Piper • Rals Salan • Rann Dalrys • Rowhn I'deer • Sedge Nirra • Tam Heldron • Hounslaw Tanaka

Referenced only

Beverly Crusher • Morn • Quark • Benjamin Sisko • Will Riker

References

Starships and vehicles

Locations

B'Hatral Alps • B'Laydroc • Bar'trila • Five Brothers • Inland Sea • Lharassa Desalinization Plant • Lharassa Foothills • Lharassa Province • Trevin Desert • Valor Ocean • T'Pol's World • Mandylion Rift

Races and cultures

Andorian • Bajoran • Cardassian • Human • Klingon • Tholian • Vulcan

States and organizations

Andorian Blood Council • Cardassian Aid Armada • Cardassian Ministry of Agricultural Reform ; First Contact Office • Guild of Healers • United Federation of Planets ; Starfleet Astronomics

Others

B'ath rayl/B'ath Rayl? • Combat transporter • D'ja pagh • F'relorn Disease • History of the Prime Directive‎ • Pagh r'tel • Bajoran Institute for the Revelations of the Temple • Irreducible Foundations of Logic • Sreen • K'Thale Deployment

Information

Set partially in Kirk's earliest days on USS Enterprise, alongside the likes of Enterprise: The First Adventure, All Those Years Ago... and The Trial of Captain Kirk. This novel is the fourth Shatnerverse not set in the Mirror Universe, the first three being The Ashes of Eden, The Return, and Avenger.

Related Stories

Connections

• Captain's Peril article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.