"Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mision: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations; to boldly go where no man has gone before." -Captain James Tiberius Kirk. The first time you heard that statement, you were just a kid, watching Star Trek: the Original sereis on TV Land. Well, now you can have the joy of reading the most accelerating series there is. The man, who created Captain Kirk and all other Star Trek characters, puts them all together again here in his first Star Trek novel!

Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Scotty and all the crew have scattered to other jobs or other lives. Now they are together again on a fabulously refitted USS Enterprise and going to explore the system again. But now an alien force has treatened Earth and the human race, and the crew must venture out into the deep space to meet the challenge. As they try to discover the nature o their "thing" which is a huge and deadly cloud that keeps coming nearer and nearer to Earth...

Gene Roddenbery describes the hopes and also the fear showing in every crew member that he alone could bring out. If you love Star Trek, this is a book or you. If you aren't familiar with Star Trek, then this great book will suck you tino its world.

Enjoy: "Live Long and Prosper."