Dark Victory
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| Author(s): | William Shatner (with Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens) |
| Publisher: | Pocket Books |
| Series: | Pocket TOS Mirror Universe #2 |
| Published: | 1 April 1999 (hardback) 1 April 2000 (paperback) |
| Pages: | 352 |
| Stardate: | Unknown (2374-2375) |
| Reference: | ISBN 067100882X (hardback) ISBN 0671008846 (paperback) ISBN 0743411102 (eBook) |
| Audiobook | |
| Narrator: | William Shatner |
| Running Time: | 3 hours (abridged) |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster Audio |
| Published: | 1 April 1999 (abridged) 1 June 2002 (unabridged) |
| Reference: | ISBN 0671043854 (abridged) ISBN 0743527755 (unabridged) |
This is the second part of a trilogy that begins with Spectre and concludes with Preserver.
Contents |
[edit] Summary
- From the book jacket
- BOOK JACKET DESCRIPTION.
- Excerpts of copyrighted sources are included for review purposes only, without any intention of infringement.
FURTHER SUMMARY
[edit] Memorable Quotes
QUOTES
[edit] Background Information
- The audiobook version was abridged by George Truett.
- The paperback edition of this novel contained Chapter Nine of the serialized novel Starfleet: Year One.
- An extract from this novel appeared in Star Trek Monthly issue 53.
[edit] Characters
- James T. Kirk
- Retired captain. Kirk's Starfleet authority had been reinstated, giving his counterpart the ability to activate a auto-destruct sequence on USS Enterprise-E, by using authorization code Kirk eight-eight-alpha-kilo.
- Hu-Lin Radisson
- Captain of Heisenberg.
- Twining
- Holographic Starfleet commodore.
- It is noted that the "commodore" rank has fallen into disuse in the 24th century, although a handful of officers still have this grade.
- Christine MacDonald.
- Randle
- Captain of Sovereign.
- Mantell
- Captain of Schrödinger.
[edit] References
- USS Ohio
- Runabout.
- USS Heisenberg
- Leviathan-class science vessel of Hu-Lin Radisson.
- Leviathan-class
- Type of science ship the Heisenberg belonged to.
- It is unclear whether any variation of this design was in "standard", non-classified service.
- mirror universe
- Pauli
- Shuttlecraft on USS Venture.
- USS Pauli
- Secret science vessel of Project Sign.
- Project Sign
- A top-secret Starfleet endeavor dealing with a perceived threat of the fabric of galactic civilization being manipulated by the Preservers, based on psycho-historical research. Starfleet assigned sophisticated, and some possibly sentient or disguised living beings, holographic crewmembers of three vessels so secret that they were not even officially registered: USS Pauli, USS Schrödinger, USS Heisenberg.
- USS Schrödinger
- Secret science vessel of Project Sign, under Captain Mantell.
- USS Sovereign
- USS Tobias
- Recently destroyed Oberth-class science ship.
- USS Venture
- Federation starship, with a shuttlecraft named Pauli.
- USS Voyager (mirror)
- Duplicate of USS Voyager built in the mirror universe. This ship was built by the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance to be an exact duplicate of Voyager as part of a ruse to fool Jean-Luc Picard.
[edit] External link
- Dark Victory at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
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