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NOVEL
The Three-Minute Universe
Attribution

The galaxy is on fire, and only the Enterprise can save it.

Introduction (blurb)

From the book jacket 

The Sackers. In all Captain James T. Kirk's travels, he has never found a race more universally shunned and abhorred. Their mere appearance causes most Federation members to become violently ill.

Now the Sackers have performed a deed whose brutally matches their horrifying exterior. They have stolen a revolutionary new scientific device - murdering an entire race in the process - and used it to create a rip in the fabric of space, a hole through which another universe is rapidly leaking. Unless Captain Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise can find a way to stop the new universe's expansion, it will consume - and utterly destroy - our own.

Summary

References

Characters

James T. Kirk • Spock • Leonard McCoy • Montgomery Scott • Hikaru Sulu • Pavel Chekov • Nyota Uhura • Christine Chapel • Kyle • Babe • Berengaria • Blue • Bonesovna • Brownie • Ching • Dorelian • Franklin • Green • Hrolfson • Iris • Ivan • Jonquil • Misterma'am • Orangejuiceandwodka • Pinky • Quinlan • Rasputin • Rose • Borkel Mershaya ev Symwid • Toots • Wittering

Referenced only 

T'iana

Starships and vehicles

USS Enterprise (Constitution-class) • hovercraft • Babe in Arms

Locations

Argelius II • Beta Castelli • Beta Castelli I • Beta Castelli II • Beta Castelli IV • Deep Space Station K-7 • Elas • Gelchen • Holox • Platonius • sector 79F • Starbase 4 • Triskelion • Zirgos

Materials and substances

alkaloid • alphidium • helium • hydrogen • proqualine • tridocane • zyroplex

Races and cultures

Elasian • Gelchenite • Human • Klingon • Vinithi (Sacker) • Vulcan • Zirgosian

States and organizations

Gelchen Transgalactic Trade Commission • Klingon Empire • United Federation of Planets • Starfleet • Starfleet Command

Other

baryon • baryon reverter • blood • borscht • brain • chicken Kiev • cryptoanalysis • deflector dish • dilithium reactor room • G class star • Immelmann turn • photon grenade • main sequence • minute • mortar • plasmicophic ferangulator • probe • REM sleep • sonic hypnosis-inducer • star • star system • supernova • universe

Information

This was Barbara Paul's only Star Trek novel. The cover artist is uncredited. The title refers to the state of a universe that is only three minutes old.

Related Stories

The idea of another universe beginning within our own was later included in DS9 episode: "Playing God".

Images

Cover image.

Connections