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In this Star Trek adventure, Captain James T. Kirk encounters the Sackers—a ruthless alien race whose presence sickens even the most resilient Federation crew members. After stealing a revolutionary scientific device and using it to massacre an entire species, they have opened a rip in the fabric of space, creating a rapidly expanding universe that threatens to consume and destroy our own. With time running out, Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise must locate a solution to halt the new universe's expansion before it engulfs the cosmos.
First publish date: 1988
Genre: Science Fiction/Space Opera
Authors: Barbara Paul
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