The Lost Years

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The missing chapter in Star Trek history - revealed at last!

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From the book jacket: After the end of the Enterprise's five-year mission, Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, and Dr. McCoy struggle to establish new lives apart from each other and the starship. The newly-promoted Admiral Kirk is placed in charge of a specially-created Starfleet division and attempts to defuse a critical hostage situation; Mr. Spock, who, in the midst of a teaching assignment on Vulcan, finds the one thing he least expected; and Dr. McCoy, whose unerring instinct for trouble lands him smack in the middle of an incident that could trigger an interstellar bloodbath.

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The first book in the Lost Years series, which fills in the gap between the end of the five year mission and the events of Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
Admiral Nogura's promotion of Kirk in the novel follows in the aftermath of the events in the novel Dreadnought! and the scandal surrounding the disgraced Admiral Rittenhouse.

Previous TOS novel: Prime Directive	Novels Pocket TOS Lost Years	Next TOS novel: Best Destiny
Previous novel: First in series	Novels Pocket TOS Lost Years	Next novel: #54: A Flag Full of Stars

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Author(s):	J.M. Dillard
Publisher:	Pocket Books
Series:	Pocket TOS Lost Years #1
Published:	September 1989 (hardback) 1 August 1990 (paperback)
Pages:	307 (hardback) 448 (paperback)
Stardate:	Unknown (2271)
Reference:	ISBN 0671682938 (hardback) ISBN 0671707957 (paperback)
Audiobook
Narrator:	Leonard Nimoy and James Doohan
Running Time:	3 hours
Publisher:	Simon & Schuster Audio
Published:	1 October 1989
Reference:	ISBN 0671686321