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The Starship Enterprise is stationed on the distant planet Belle Terre to safeguard a nascent Federation colony. Among hostile forces, the alien Kauld poison the planet’s atmosphere with a destructive biochemical agent, threatening all human life. Captain James T. Kirk mounts a tactical offensive against the Kauld, while Spock works to devise a scientific solution to save the colony before the alien contamination fully renders the world uninhabitable.
First publish date: 2000
Genre: General Fiction/General Fiction
Authors: Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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