Summary
From the back cover: When Demora Sulu, an exemplary young Starfleet officer, suddenly attacks her commanding officer, who kills her in self-defense, everyone is stunned. No one is more grief-stricken than her father, Captain Hikaru Sulu of the U.S.S. Excelsior. Determined to learn the truth behind his daughter's bizarre death, Sulu goes to the planet where she was killed, and finds himself confronted by an old enemy eager to destroy Sulu's reputation and his life!
Information
This novel has been heavily referenced by other authors in more recent stories featuring John Harriman, Demora Sulu, and the Enterprise-B.
Related Stories
Canon
- Star Trek: The Motion Picture (TOS movie)
- Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (TOS movie)
- Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (TOS movie)
- Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (TOS movie)
- Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (TOS movie)
- Star Trek Generations (TNG movie)
- "The Enemy Within" (TOS episode)
- "Shore Leave" (TOS episode)
- "Cause and Effect" (TNG episode)
Non-Canon
Connections
- The Captain's Daughter article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
| published order | ||
|---|---|---|
| Previous novel: First Frontier |
TOS numbered novels | Next novel: Twilight's End |
| chronological order | ||
| Previous Adventure: The Sundered (Chapter 25) |
Next Adventure: Engines of Destiny (Chapter 2) | |
| The above chronology placements are based on the primary placement in 2294. The Pocket Books Timeline places events from this story in four other timeframes: | ||
| Previous Adventure: The End of Night |
2271 Chapters 5-12 |
Next Adventure: The Lost Years |
| Previous Adventure: Deep Domain |
2278 Chapters 15-17 |
Next Adventure: Wagon Train to the Stars Three Months Earlier |
| Previous Adventure: Pathways Chapter 14, Section 1 |
2284 Chapters 18-19 |
Next Adventure: Future Imperfect Alternate 2284 |
| Previous Adventure: Allegro Ouroboros in D Minor |
2285 Chapters 20-21 |
Next Adventure: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home |
| Media featuring the USS Excelsior (NCC-2000) under Captain Hikaru Sulu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| episodes/movies | The Undiscovered Country • Flashback | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| novels | The Undiscovered Country • The Fearful Summons • The Captain's Daughter • The Ashes of Eden • Starfleet Academy • The Captain's Table: War Dragons • The Lost Era: The Sundered • Excelsior: Forged in Fire • Flashback • The Lost Era: One Constant Star • Burning Dreams | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| comics | Tests of Courage (The Tabukan Syndrome) • A Wolf in Cheap Clothing (1 • 2 • 3 • 4) • Captain's Log: Sulu • The Undiscovered Country • The Veteran | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Captain Sulu Adventures (audiobooks) |
Cacophony • Envoy • Transformations | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| games | Shattered Universe | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| characters | Hikaru Sulu • Pavel Chekov • Janice Rand • Dmitri Valtane • Leonard James Akaar • Lojur • Tuvok • Altos Viger | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||