Description

The first novel based on the thrilling Paramount TV series Star Trek Strange New Worlds

When an experimental shuttlecraft fails Captain Christopher Pike suspects a mechanical malfunctiononly to discover the very principles on which Starfleet bases its technology have simply stopped functioning He and his crewmates are forced to abandon ship in a dangerous maneuver that scatters their party across the strangest new world theyve ever encountered

First Officer Una ChinRiley finds herself fighting to survive an untamed wilderness where dangers lurk at every turn Young cadet Nyota Uhura struggles in a volcanic wasteland where things are not as they seem Science Officer Spock is missing altogether And Pike gets the chance to fulfill a childhood dream to live the life of a cowboy in a world where the tools of the twentythird century are of no use

Yet even in the saddle Pike is still very much a starship captain with all the responsibilities that entails Setting out to find his crewmates he encounters a surprising face from his pastand discovers that one peoples utopia might be someone elses purgatory He must lead an exodusor risk a calamity of galactic proportions that even the Starship Enterprise is powerless to stop