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Introduction (blurb)

Revealed at last, the full story of Jim Kirk's lost friend, the man who helped him become the captain we know....

Stardate 1312.4. -- A young Captain Kirk, early in his legendary career, faces the crisis of his life when he must kill his best friend in order to save the Enterprise. Later, alone in his quarters, be cannot help recalling how he first met Gary Mitchell:

At Starfleet Academy, Gary is reckless and fun-loving while Kirk is driven, ambitious, but awkward around other people -- especially women. Their friendship begins with a fistfight. Then their routine training mission on the U.S.S. Republic is diverted to a planet where centuries of bloody interplanetary conflict are about to end in a ceremony of reconciliation. Assigned to help with security on the planet's surface, Kirk and Gary quickly find themselves in the middle of a life-and-death struggle against terrorists determined to disrupt the ceremony.

With the future of two planets at stake, Kirk and Gary must find a way to work together before a mission of life and peace becomes one of death and despair.

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2156; 2160; Arabian Nights; atomic weapon; Axanar Peace Mission; Battle of Cheron; Battle of Donatu V; disruptor; Commandant of Starfleet Academy; Earth-Romulan War; Federation History; First Minister of Security; gym; hypergravitational aerobics; Klingon Neutral Zone; Palm Leaf of Axanar; phaser; photon torpedo; manure; racquetball; Romulan Neutral Zone; Second Minister of Security; spaghetti bolognese; World War I

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Assignment: Eternity
TOS numbered novels Next novel:
My Brother's Keeper
Constitution
Previous novel:
Spectre
TOS novels Next novel:
My Brother's Keeper
Constitution
chronological order
Previous Adventure:
Q-Squared
Track A: Chapter 12
Pocket Next Adventure:
My Brother's Keeper
Constitution
Chapters 1-3
Previous Adventure:
Where No Man Has Gone Before
Voyages of the
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701)
(2264 to 2270)
Next Adventure:
Gary
The above chronology placements are based on the primary placement in 2265.
The Pocket Books Timeline places events from this story in one other timeframe:
Previous Adventure:
Cadet Kirk
2251
Chapters 5-20
Next Adventure:
Constellations
Chaotic Response
Sections 5 and 7
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