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Republic

Republic

by Michael Jan Friedman

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Revealed at last, the full story of Jim Kirk's lost friend, the man who helped him become the captain we know… Stardate 1312.4. – A young Captain Kirk, early in his legendary career, faces the crisis of his life when he must kill his best friend in order to save the Enterprise. Later, alone in his quarters, be cannot help recalling how he first met Gary Mitchell: At Starfleet Academy, Gary is reckless and fun-loving while Kirk is driven, ambitious, but awkward around other people – especially women. Their friendship begins with a fistfight. Then their routine training mission on the USS Republic is diverted to a planet where centuries of bloody interplanetary conflict are about to end in a ceremony of reconciliation. Assigned to help with security on the planet's surface, Kirk and Gary quickly find themselves in the middle of a life-and-death struggle against terrorists determined to disrupt the ceremony. With the future of two planets at stake, Kirk and Gary must find a way to work together before a mission of life and peace becomes one of death and despair.

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collectionID:ST#Fiction, science fiction, space operaFiction, media tie-inKirk, james t. (fictitious character), fiction

About the author

Michael Jan Friedman
Michael Jan Friedman

7 March 1955

Michael Jan Friedman (born March 7, 1955) is a New York City born American author of nearly sixty books of fiction and nonfiction, more than half of which are in licensed tie-in products of the Star Trek franchise. Ten of his titles have appeared on the New York Times Best Seller list. Friedman has also written for network and cable television, radio, more than 150 comic books, most of them for DC Comics.

Author

Michael Jan Friedman

Pages

288

Read time

≈ 7h

Editions

4

Language

English

Publisher

Pocket Books

ISBN

9781471108235

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