The Lost Years

Star Trek

Hardcover, 307 pages

English language

Published Jan. 6, 1989 by Pocket Books.

ISBN:
978-0-671-68293-4
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OCLC Number:
20664993

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4 stars (2 reviews)

"The Lost Years" tells the story of Captain Kirk's final hours in command of the USS Enterprise, and how he, Mr. Spock, and Dr. McCoy struggle to establish new lives apart from each other and the starship.

We see the newly promoted Admiral Kirk, in charge of a specially created Starfleet division, as he 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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4 stars

my usual caveat here - I listened to the audio, have no idea how the book is compared to the abridged audio version

Yes, this one, like many others have said, this is a story that happens just at the end of the original 5 year mission, so we see how they break up and how Kirk gets Admiral and Spock stays on Vulcan. But the main thing that I came away from this one with is how very Star Wars-y this one is. With the ancient Vulcan katra that came back that they had to fight and all this stuff- it was very Jedi and Sith like. :)

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  • Science fiction
  • Star Trek fiction