Star Trek #65: Windows on a Lost World

by V. E. Mitchell

Overview

Windows On A Lost World
While Captain Kirk and a landing party from the Starship Enterprise™ explore the ruins of an ancient civilization on the uninhabited planet Careta IV, they discover strange devices that appear to be windows.But the mysterious windows prove to be more than they seem when Kirk, Chekov, and two security guards enter them and disappear.
Suddenly, Kirk and his team find themselves find themselves trapped in a strange alien enviorment and must fight with all their strength to survive and keep their sanity. Now Spock must locate his missing comrades and solve the window's ancient mysteries before his captain and crewmates are lost forever....

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780743420167
Publisher:	Pocket Books/Star Trek
Publication date:	09/22/2000
Series:	Star Trek: The Original Series , #65
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	274,245
File size:	993 KB

About the Author

V.E. Mitchell (1954–2017) was a science fiction author specializing in Star Trek novels, including Imbalance, Enemy Unseen, and Windows on a Lost World. 

Editorial Reviews

The bestselling Star Trek juggernaut rolls on with the 10th hardcover based on the phenomenally popular TV series and its spinoffs, Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine . The events in this newest adventure follow those of the latest Star Trek film and focus on Dr. Leonard McCoy, curmudgeonly chief medical officer of the starship Enterprise . McCoy and his longtime comrades (Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock et al.) abandon their imminent retirement for one final mission: to pacify the planet Ssan, terrorized by an outlaw guild trying to revive an ancient tradition of assassination. McCoy, who was traumatized by his experiences on Ssan during its last civil war, finds other old wounds reopened when a civilian diplomatic team assigned to the mission turns out to include his now-remarried ex-wife. Contending with wrenching memories of their painful breakup as well as with bloodthirsty killers, he and his friends struggle to save yet another world. Friedman ( Reunion ) knows his Star Trek trivia and has an excellent grasp of the much-beloved characters. Though the plot is fairly predictable and occasionally a bit talky, fans will devour the smorgasbord of information about McCoy. (Aug.)

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

Damn-It-Jim-I'm-A-"Doctor" McCoy is the focus of what purports to be the very last Star Trek adventure. When the story begins--sometime after the events of "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country"--the Enterprise is en route to Earth, where it will be decommissioned and its senior officers retired. But a civil war is brewing on Ssan, where a cult of assassins, led by the charismatic but malevolent Shil Andrachis, seeks power. The Enterprise is diverted to Ssan partly because of McCoy's experiences with the cult some years before--in fact, he saved Andrachis' life. The plot gets sadder and more complicated for McCoy when the man who stole his wife some 30 years before and Jocelyn--that same ex-wife--join the mission as expert negotiators. Clay Treadway, Jocelyn's current husband, is foolhardy, but when McCoy questions the man's judgment he appears to be allowing his personal feelings to interfere with his work. McCoy is vindicated, however, when Treadway underestimates the cult's deadliness and gets the entire Enterprise crew trapped. Jocelyn and McCoy's love is rekindled but then--after saving the day--Jocelyn must die, despite McCoy's best efforts to save her. Full of sorrow, McCoy resumes his journey home, where he will retire. Really? Anyhow, Friedman--who has written nine other Star Trek novels--turns in his usual smooth performance.

John Mort