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The Enterprise is dispatched to move the dangerous physicist Dr. Georges Mordreaux—charged with promising to send people back in time—from a starbase prison to a rehabilitation center. When Mordreaux escapes, he bursts onto the bridge, kills Captain Kirk, and forces Spock to travel back in time to prevent the catastrophe. Mordreaux’s experiments have thrown the universe into a deadly time warp, and Spock must stop the entropy that threatens to crush reality.
First publish date: November 3, 1985
Genre: Science Fiction/Space Opera
Authors: Vonda N. McIntyre
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