The Great Starship Race
Real world article
(written from a production point of view)
Competition turns deadly for Captain Kirk and the crew of the USS Enterprise.
The Great Starship Race is a Pocket TOS novel – #67 in the numbered series – written by Diane Carey. Published by Pocket Books, it was first released in October 1993.
Summary
- From the book jacket
- When a friendly, alien people called the Rey make contact with the Federation, they are thrilled to learn the galaxy has a large number of intelligent races. To bring the myriad cultures to their world, the Rey host a celebration – inviting spacefaring peoples to send representative ships to compete against one another and The Great Starship Race is born.
- As the Federation's flagship, the USS Enterprise, under the command of Captain James T. Kirk, is sent to compete. But the event takes a dark turn when a Romulan warship arrives and demands to join the race. Soon, Kirk and the Romulan commander are engaged in a deadly game of cat and mouse, and, for Kirk and his crew, the race becomes a struggle for survival. Faced with treachery at every turn, Kirk must protect his ship from relentless attack and prevent the annihilation of an entire world.
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Background information
- This was the final Pocket Original Series novel to be reprinted by Titan Books. From Firestorm on, Simon & Schuster UK directly distributed Pocket's US releases without reprinting.
- The cover design of Pocket's releases changes from this novel onward, omitting the rounded border and enlarging the Star Trek logo at the top of the cover.
Characters
- James T. Kirk
- Buck Ames
- Helmut Appenfeller
- Hunter
- Legarratlinya
- Nancy Ransom
- Ben Shamirian
- Leo Blaine
- Miles Glover X
- Ian Blackington
- Zoracon
- Sinclair Rowan
- Kenneth Dodge
- Starfleet captain of USS Hood.
- T'Noy
- Starfleet captain of USS Intrepid.
- Hans Tahl
- Starfleet captain of USS Great Lakes.
References
- Andorian
- Argelius
- Arkansas
- Baltimore, Maryland
- Blackjacket
- BlaineAerospace Inc.
- Bluenose IV
- Canada
- Cynthia Blaine
- Colony Drachenfels
- Drachenfels
- Dominion of Proxima
- Eminiar VII
- USS Enterprise
- Gavelan Star
- USS Great Lakes
- Starfleet frigate.
- Gullrey
- USS Hood
- USS Intrepid
- Irimlo Si
- New Pride of Baltimore
- Orion Union
- Proxima Beta
- Ransom Castle
- Ransom Carnvale Mining Co.
- Rigel IV
- Tellarite
- Tholian
- Ytaho
- Zeon
External links
- The Great Starship Race at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
- The Great Starship Race at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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