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{{novel
The first original [[novel]] based on the hit series!
 
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| type = novel
{{Novel|
 
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| title = The Escape
type=novel|
 
title=The Escape|
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| cover image = the Escape.jpg
 
| author = [[Dean Wesley Smith]] & [[Kristine Kathryn Rusch]]
cover image=[[Image:The_Escape.jpg|250px]]|
 
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| series = {{sT|Voyager}} ([[Pocket VOY]])
author=[[Dean Wesley Smith]] & [[Kristine Kathryn Rusch]]|
 
 
| number = 2
series=[[Star Trek: Voyager|Voyager]]|
 
 
| date = [[2371]]
number=2|
 
  +
| published = {{srcdate|1995|May}}
date=[[2371]]|
 
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| format = [[paperback]]
published=[[Paperback]] - [[1995|May 1995]]|
 
pages=244|
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| pages = 244
ISBN=ISBN 0671520962|
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| ISBN = ISBN 0671520962
 
}}
altcover=[[Image:The Escape cz.jpg]]
 
 
''The first original [[novel]] based on the hit series!''
{{small|Foreign language edition}}|
 
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|}}
 
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==Description==
 
:''The USS ''Voyager'' is in desperate trouble, her systems damaged, her [[warp engine]]s failing. Without immediate repairs the [[starship]] and her crew will be trapped forever between the stars. [[Captain]] [[Kathryn Janeway]] must guide her ship to an ancient, deserted [[planet]] that could hold the key to their survival—a planet that is hiding more than one deadly secret…''
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==Summary==
 
==Summary==
  +
[[file:voyagerBeschutzer.jpg|thumb|left|{{uSS|Voyager}}.]]
:''[[Pocket Books]] is proud to present the first original novel starring the crew of the ''[[Starship]]'' ''[[USS Voyager|Voyager]]''. Stranded far across the [[galaxy]], theirs is a voyage of a lifetime that will take them far into uncharted space...where no one has gone before.
 
  +
Shortly after [[B'Elanna Torres]] has been promoted to [[chief engineer]], {{uSS|Voyager}}'s resources and power begin to run desperately low. At the suggestion of [[Neelix]], they travel to the [[planet]] [[Alcawell]] (known as "the Station") where they find a planet covered by thousands upon thousands of abandoned but largely untouched [[starship]]s, along with ruins of an [[alien]] culture.
   
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[[file:voyUnikArt.jpg|thumb|[[Starship]]s.]]
:''The ''U.S.S. Voyager'' is in desperate trouble, her systems damaged, her [[warp engine]]s failing. Without immediate repairs the starship and her crew will be trapped forever between the stars. [[Captain]] [[Kathryn Janeway]] must guide her ship to an ancient, deserted [[planet]] that could hold the key to their survival - a planet that is hiding more than one deadly secret...
 
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When B'Elanna, [[Harry Kim]] and [[Neelix]] transport down to the planet, they explore one of the more well-preserved ships until Neelix accidentally triggers a mechanism that transports the ship back in time. Now stranded on a populated version of the planet, over [[thousands of years ago|three hundred thousand years in its past]], the three Voyager [[officer]]s are taken into custody by the planet's authorities.
===Chapter One===
 
As the [[USS Voyager|USS ''Voyager'']] continues its voyage home, the crew are forced to stop near a large [[asteroid belt]] in order to obtain [[armalcolite ore]] that will help repair the ship's [[Oltion circuits]] in the [[warp processor]]. [[Captain]] [[Kathryn Janeway|Janeway]] orders Lieutenants [[Tuvok]] and [[B'Elanna Torres|Torres]] to take a [[shuttlecraft]] into the belt to find the highest concentration of the ore.
 
   
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[[file:janewayLEvasion.jpg|thumb|left|[[Kathryn Janeway]].]]
As the shuttlecraft nears the largest [[asteroid]] the shuttle begins to buck wildly as a greater level of [[subspace|subspace turbulence]] hits the shuttle, which prevents them from find the highest concentration. Despite Janeway's suggestion that the team return to ''Voyager'', Torres is determined to get the ore. However, the team are forced to return when the turbulence becomes too strong and cripples the shuttle's shields.
 
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Meanwhile, back in [[2371]], ''Voyager'' is shocked to watch as the ship containing its officers disappears and is almost immediately replaced by another vessel with one [[alien]] occupant. In fact, the alien, [[Kjanders]], is an Alcawellian [[crime|criminal]] trying to escape the authorities. After he's beamed aboard, Kjanders gives Voyager’s crew an explanation for the byzantine [[time travel]]ing system and rules that govern life on Alcawell.
   
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[[file:voyagerEscape.jpg|thumb|{{uSS|Voyager}}.]]
Following the team's return, Janeway calls a briefing of all the senior staff to discuss the increasingly desperate state of ''Voyager''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> systems. Aware of the problems, [[Neelix]] suggests that the crew visit the [[planet]] [[Alcawell]]. Alcawell is well known in the region for being a huge spaceship graveyard and he is sure that any parts that ''Voyager'' needs could surely be salvaged from Alcawell. Despite concerns from several members of the staff, Janeway decides that it is worth the risk and orders a course set for Alcawell, despite stories from Neelix that the graveyard is haunted.
 
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The Alcawellians have divided their history into 500,000 year increments, further divided into safe Black Periods and prohibited Red Periods with intra-Period time travel also prohibited. Kjanders reveals that it was a violation of this last prohibition that likely led to the away team's arrest.
   
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Millions of years in Alcawell's past, B’Elanna, Harry, and Neelix are taken to their advocate, [[Rawlik]], who will represent them before Alcawellian authorities. Rawlik doesn’t express much optimism about their chances, but he does appear sympathetic, particularly toward B'Elanna.
===Chapter Two===
 
===Chapter Three===
 
===Chapter Four===
 
===Chapter Five===
 
{{incomplete}}
 
   
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The authorities send a [[Watchman]] named [[Drickel]] to the period the away team arrived from with orders to frighten Voyager's crew away. He quickly learns that the crew won't frighten as easily as past visitors.
==Characters==
 
===Regulars===
 
*[[Kathryn Janeway]]
 
*[[Chakotay]]
 
*[[Tuvok]]
 
*[[Thomas Eugene Paris|Tom Paris]]
 
*[[B'Elanna Torres]]
 
*[[Harry Kim]]
 
*[[The Doctor]]
 
*[[Neelix]]
 
*[[Kes]]
 
===Others===
 
*[[Drickel]]
 
*[[Hoffman]]
 
===Referenced===
 
*[[Joseph Carey]]
 
   
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[[file:tuvokLEvasion.jpg|thumb|left|[[Tuvok]].]]
==References==
 
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Time passes slowly for B’Elanna, Harry, and Neelix in confinement, until Rawlik arrives to explain that their appeal to the authorities failed. Before they realize it, the three have consumed the refreshments Rawlik provided and discovered that it contains [[poison]]. As the [[away team]] gradually succumbs, Rawlik apologizes and explains that the three killed their guards and escaped upon originally learning that their appeal had failed – and he had to "back-time" to subdue them before the breakout.
===Starships===
 
*[[USS Voyager]] - [[Intrepid class]]
 
===Locations===
 
*[[Alpha Quadrant]]
 
**[[Badlands]]
 
**[[Federation Headquarters]]
 
**[[Los Angeles]]
 
**[[Luna Station]]
 
**[[San Francisco]]
 
**[[Vulcan (planet)|Vulcan]]
 
*[[Delta Quadrant]]
 
===Species===
 
*[[Bajoran]]
 
*[[Cardassian]]
 
*[[Ocampa]]
 
===States and Organisations===
 
*[[Maquis]]
 
===Other===
 
<center>
 
[[Alcawell]] | [[Alcawellian Period]] | [[armalcolite ore]] | [[asteroid]] | [[Control Ordinance]] | [[Drickel]] | [[Hoffman]] | [[Mean Time Control]] | [[Oltion circuit]] | [[Planet-Hopper]] | [[ready room]] | [[Real Time]] | [[Reno]] | "''[[Rollingburg's Retreat]]''" | [[Second Expansion Period]] | [[shuttlecraft]] | [[subspace]] | [[Time Breach]] | [[tractor beam]] | [[transport booth]] | [[warp processor]] | [[Watchman]] |
 
</center>
 
   
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[[file:janewayFlucht.jpg|thumb|[[Kathryn Janeway]].]]
==Information==
 
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Drickel is injured during his effort to scare away the crew. Tuvok and Tom manage to locate the source of the strange activity and disable Drickel's cloaking belt. Once he’s taken to sickbay, Janeway asks for Drickel’s help to rescue her crew, and he eventually agrees. While communicating with his dispatchers, Drickel and Janeway learn that the away team has already been executed.
   
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[[file:voyagerUnik.jpg|thumb|left|{{uSS|Voyager}}.]]
==Related Stories==
 
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After proposing various ways to avoid the temporal paradoxes and avoid alerting the authorities, Drickel and Janeway ultimately conspire to go back in time and convince Rawlik to deliver only a drug that simulates death, retrieve her away team’s bodies, and return them to their proper time where they can be revived.
   
==Reviews==
+
==References==
 
===Characters===
  +
:[[Joseph Carey]] • [[Chakotay]] • [[The Doctor]] • [[Drickel]] • {{dis|Hoffman|USS Voyager}} • [[Kathryn Janeway]] • [[Kes]] • [[Harry Kim]] • [[Kjanders]] • [[Neelix]] • [[Tom Paris]] • [[Rawlik]] • [[Seska]] • [[B'Elanna Torres]] • [[Tuvok]]
   
 
===Starships and vehicles===
==Connections==
 
  +
:[[shuttlecraft]] • {{uSS|Voyager}} ({{class|Intrepid}})
* {{memoryalpha}}
 
{{Timeline|
 
type1=novel |
 
series1=VOY |
 
subtitle1= |
 
format1=numnov |
 
before1=[[Caretaker]] |
 
after1=[[Ragnarok]] |
 
   
 
===Locations===
type2= |
 
  +
:[[Alcawell]] • [[Alpha Quadrant]] • [[Badlands]] • [[Delta Quadrant]] • [[Federation Headquarters]] • [[Los Angeles]] • [[Luna Station]] • [[San Francisco]] • {{dis|Vulcan|planet}}
series2= |
 
subtitle2= |
 
format2= |
 
before2= |
 
after2= |
 
   
  +
===Races and cultures===
type3= |
 
  +
:[[Alcawellian]] • [[Bajoran]] • [[Cardassian]] • [[Human]] • [[Ocampa]] • [[Talaxian]] • [[Vulcan]]
series3= |
 
subtitle3= |
 
format3= |
 
before3= |
 
after3= |
 
   
 
===States and organizations===
typea=novel |
 
  +
:[[Maquis]] • [[Starfleet]]
author=[[Dean Wesley Smith]]<br>{{small|&}}<br>[[Kristine Kathryn Rusch]] |
 
formata=novel |
 
beforea=[[The Big Game]] |
 
aftera=[[The Long Night]] |
 
   
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===Science and technology===
prevpocket=[[Parallax]] |
 
  +
:[[anatomy]] • [[lifeform]] • [[matter]] • [[memory]] • [[Oltion circuit]] • [[orbit]] • [[radiation]] • [[space]] • [[star]] • [[star system]] • [[subspace]] • [[time]] • [[time travel]] • [[tractor beam]] • [[transporter]] • [[transport booth]] • [[universe]] • [[warp processor]]
nextpocket=[[Terra Tonight]] |
 
   
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===Ranks and titles===
voyages1=VOY |
 
  +
:[[captain]] • [[criminal]] • [[doctor]] • [[officer]] • [[Watchman]]
adbefore1=[[Parallax]] |
 
adafter1=[[Ragnarok]] |
 
   
 
===Other references===
voyages2= |
 
  +
:[[Alcawellian Period]] • [[armalcolite]] • [[asteroid]] • [[boot]] • [[clothing]] • [[Control Ordinance]] • [[government]] • [[homeworld]] • [[humanoid]] • [[jumpsuit]] • [[language]] • [[logic]] • [[log entry]] • [[Mean Time Control]] • [[nation-state]] • [[pants]] • [[planet]] • [[quadrant]] • [[rank]] • [[ready room]] • [[Real Time]] • [[Reno]] • ''[[Rollingburg's Retreat]]'' • [[Second Expansion Period]] • [[stardate]] • [[Starfleet uniform]] • [[Starfleet uniform (2366-2373)]] • [[technology]] • [[title]] • [[uniform]] • [[war]] • [[weapon]]
adbefore2= |
 
adafter2= |
 
   
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==Appendices==
timeframe=Timeframe2|
 
  +
===Background===
primary=[[2371]]|
 
  +
* The Doctor is referred to as Doc Zimmerman in the novel. This was intended to be his name in the series, as mentioned in the series bible featured in the ''[[Star Trek: Voyager Companion]]''.
date1=444,800,000 BC{{bsmall|Chapters 12, 17, 19 & 23}}|
 
  +
* ''The Escape'' marks the first of many times Harry Kim died while serving on ''Voyager''.
prevdate1=[[Q-Zone]]{{bsmall|Chapter 2}}|
 
  +
* Artist [[Dru Blair]] illustrated this volume's cover art, and the original version of the artwork was used on the [[AdA]] [[French language]] translation of this release. For the original American version, however, his drawings of Janeway and Tuvok were replaced with publicity photos for some reason.
nextdate1=[[First Frontier]]{{bsmall|Chapters 23-38}}|
 
  +
date2=307,600 BC{{bsmall|Chapters 4, 5-7 &23}}|
 
 
===Images===
prevdate2=[[Spock's World]]{{bsmall|Vulcan: Two}}|
 
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<gallery>
nextdate2=[[Horn and Ivory]]{{bsmall|Chapters 1-9}}|
 
  +
the Escape.jpg|Cover image.
  +
voyLEvasion.jpg|[[French language]] edition cover image.
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voyFlucht.jpg|[[German language]] edition cover image.
  +
voy Flucht.jpg|[[German language]] reprint edition cover image.
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the Escape cz.jpg|[[Czech language]] edition cover image.
 
janewayEscape.jpg|[[Kathryn Janeway]].
  +
janewayFlucht.jpg|[[Kathryn Janeway]].
  +
janewayLEvasion.jpg|[[Kathryn Janeway]].
  +
tuvokLEvasion.jpg|[[Tuvok]].
  +
tuvokEscape.jpg|[[Tuvok]].
  +
voyagerEscape.jpg|{{uSS|Voyager}}.
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voyagerUnik.jpg|{{uSS|Voyager}}.
  +
voyUnikArt.jpg
  +
voyagerBeschutzer.jpg|{{uSS|Voyager}}.
  +
</gallery>
  +
 
===Connections===
  +
{{timeline
  +
| type1 = novel
 
| series1 = VOY
 
| subtitle1 =
  +
| format1 = numnov
 
| before1 = [[Caretaker]]
 
| after1 = [[Ragnarok]]
 
| type2 =
 
| series2 =
 
| subtitle2 =
 
| format2 =
 
| before2 =
 
| after2 =
 
| type3 =
 
| series3 =
 
| subtitle3 =
 
| format3 =
 
| before3 =
 
| after3 =
  +
| typea = novel
 
| author = [[Dean Wesley Smith]]{{bsmall|&}} [[Kristine Kathryn Rusch]]
 
| formata = novel
 
| beforea = [[The Big Game]]
 
| aftera = [[The Long Night]]
 
| prevpocket = [[Parallax]]
 
| nextpocket = [[Terra Tonight]]
 
| voyages1 = VOY
 
| adbefore1 = [[Parallax]]
 
| adafter1 = [[Ragnarok]]
 
| voyages2 =
 
| adbefore2 =
 
| adafter2 =
 
| timeframe = Timeframe2
 
| primary = [[2371]]
 
| date1 = 444,800,000 BC{{bsmall|chapters 12, 17, 19 & 23}}
 
| prevdate1 = [[Q-Zone]]{{bsmall|chapter 2}}
 
| nextdate1 = [[First Frontier]]{{bsmall|chapters 23-38}}
 
| date2 = 307,600 BC{{bsmall|chapters 4, 5-7 &23}}
 
| prevdate2 = [[Spock's World]]{{bsmall|Vulcan: Two}}
 
| nextdate2 = [[Horn and Ivory]]{{bsmall|chapters 1-9}}
 
}}
 
}}
  +
[[Category:VOY Novels|Escape, The]]
 
  +
===External link===
 
* {{memoryalpha}}
  +
  +
{{DEFAULTSORT:Escape}}
  +
[[category:vOY novels]]

Revision as of 20:10, 21 November 2018

The first original novel based on the hit series!

Description

The USS Voyager is in desperate trouble, her systems damaged, her warp engines failing. Without immediate repairs the starship and her crew will be trapped forever between the stars. Captain Kathryn Janeway must guide her ship to an ancient, deserted planet that could hold the key to their survival—a planet that is hiding more than one deadly secret…

Summary

VoyagerBeschutzer

USS Voyager.

Shortly after B'Elanna Torres has been promoted to chief engineer, USS Voyager's resources and power begin to run desperately low. At the suggestion of Neelix, they travel to the planet Alcawell (known as "the Station") where they find a planet covered by thousands upon thousands of abandoned but largely untouched starships, along with ruins of an alien culture.

VoyUnikArt

Starships.

When B'Elanna, Harry Kim and Neelix transport down to the planet, they explore one of the more well-preserved ships until Neelix accidentally triggers a mechanism that transports the ship back in time. Now stranded on a populated version of the planet, over three hundred thousand years in its past, the three Voyager officers are taken into custody by the planet's authorities.

JanewayLEvasion

Kathryn Janeway.

Meanwhile, back in 2371, Voyager is shocked to watch as the ship containing its officers disappears and is almost immediately replaced by another vessel with one alien occupant. In fact, the alien, Kjanders, is an Alcawellian criminal trying to escape the authorities. After he's beamed aboard, Kjanders gives Voyager’s crew an explanation for the byzantine time traveling system and rules that govern life on Alcawell.

VoyagerEscape

USS Voyager.

The Alcawellians have divided their history into 500,000 year increments, further divided into safe Black Periods and prohibited Red Periods with intra-Period time travel also prohibited. Kjanders reveals that it was a violation of this last prohibition that likely led to the away team's arrest.

Millions of years in Alcawell's past, B’Elanna, Harry, and Neelix are taken to their advocate, Rawlik, who will represent them before Alcawellian authorities. Rawlik doesn’t express much optimism about their chances, but he does appear sympathetic, particularly toward B'Elanna.

The authorities send a Watchman named Drickel to the period the away team arrived from with orders to frighten Voyager's crew away. He quickly learns that the crew won't frighten as easily as past visitors.

TuvokLEvasion

Tuvok.

Time passes slowly for B’Elanna, Harry, and Neelix in confinement, until Rawlik arrives to explain that their appeal to the authorities failed. Before they realize it, the three have consumed the refreshments Rawlik provided and discovered that it contains poison. As the away team gradually succumbs, Rawlik apologizes and explains that the three killed their guards and escaped upon originally learning that their appeal had failed – and he had to "back-time" to subdue them before the breakout.

JanewayFlucht

Kathryn Janeway.

Drickel is injured during his effort to scare away the crew. Tuvok and Tom manage to locate the source of the strange activity and disable Drickel's cloaking belt. Once he’s taken to sickbay, Janeway asks for Drickel’s help to rescue her crew, and he eventually agrees. While communicating with his dispatchers, Drickel and Janeway learn that the away team has already been executed.

VoyagerUnik

USS Voyager.

After proposing various ways to avoid the temporal paradoxes and avoid alerting the authorities, Drickel and Janeway ultimately conspire to go back in time and convince Rawlik to deliver only a drug that simulates death, retrieve her away team’s bodies, and return them to their proper time where they can be revived.

References

Characters

Joseph CareyChakotayThe DoctorDrickelHoffmanKathryn JanewayKesHarry KimKjandersNeelixTom ParisRawlikSeskaB'Elanna TorresTuvok

Starships and vehicles

shuttlecraftUSS Voyager (Intrepid-class)

Locations

AlcawellAlpha QuadrantBadlandsDelta QuadrantFederation HeadquartersLos AngelesLuna StationSan FranciscoVulcan

Races and cultures

AlcawellianBajoranCardassianHumanOcampaTalaxianVulcan

States and organizations

MaquisStarfleet

Science and technology

anatomylifeformmattermemoryOltion circuitorbitradiationspacestarstar systemsubspacetimetime traveltractor beamtransportertransport boothuniversewarp processor

Ranks and titles

captaincriminaldoctorofficerWatchman

Other references

Alcawellian PeriodarmalcoliteasteroidbootclothingControl Ordinancegovernmenthomeworldhumanoidjumpsuitlanguagelogiclog entryMean Time Controlnation-statepantsplanetquadrantrankready roomReal TimeRenoRollingburg's RetreatSecond Expansion PeriodstardateStarfleet uniformStarfleet uniform (2366-2373)technologytitleuniformwarweapon

Appendices

Background

  • The Doctor is referred to as Doc Zimmerman in the novel. This was intended to be his name in the series, as mentioned in the series bible featured in the Star Trek: Voyager Companion.
  • The Escape marks the first of many times Harry Kim died while serving on Voyager.
  • Artist Dru Blair illustrated this volume's cover art, and the original version of the artwork was used on the AdA French language translation of this release. For the original American version, however, his drawings of Janeway and Tuvok were replaced with publicity photos for some reason.

Images

Connections

published order
Previous novel:
Caretaker
Voyager numbered novels Next novel:
Ragnarok
Previous novel:
The Big Game
Novels by:
Dean Wesley Smith
& Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Next novel:
The Long Night
chronological order
Previous Adventure:
Parallax
Pocket Next Adventure:
Terra Tonight
Previous Adventure:
Parallax
Journey of the USS Voyager Next Adventure:
Ragnarok
The above chronology placements are based on the primary placement in 2371.
The Pocket Books Timeline places events from this story in two other timeframes:
Previous Adventure:
Q-Zone
chapter 2
444,800,000 BC
chapters 12, 17, 19 & 23
Next Adventure:
First Frontier
chapters 23-38
Previous Adventure:
Spock's World
Vulcan: Two
307,600 BC
chapters 4, 5-7 &23
Next Adventure:
Horn and Ivory
chapters 1-9


External link