Description[]
En route to an important diplomatic reception, the USS Enterprise suddenly is set upon by a Klingon warship. This unprovoked assault, Kirk discovers, is in response to what the Klingon ship's captain claims are recent Federation attacks on several Klingon vessels which have disappeared.
Managing to secure a truce, Captain Kirk reaches the reception only to find out it is not just Klingon ships that are disappearing, but Federation vessels, Romulan Birds of Prey, and ships from almost every known race are vanishing without a trace.
Now, Captain Kirk and the crew of the Starship Enterprise must determine the fate of the missing ships before the entire known galaxy is drawn into a deadly conflict.
References[]
Characters[]
- Brewster • Christine Chapel • Pavel Chekov • Clark • Favere • Foss • Goshalk • Iola • Conrad Franklin Kent • James T. Kirk • Kroeber • Kyle • Lungo • Leonard McCoy • Miraskin • Nogura • Omen • Hazel Payton • Plumtree • Ruho • Montgomery Scott • Bahia Slocum • Spock • Hikaru Sulu • Torm • Uhura
- Referenced only
- Jorge Luis Borges • Samuel Butler • Georg Cantor • Carter • Eliot • Sigmund Freud • Khan • John Milton • Barbara Omen • Pan • William Shakespeare • John Wayne
Starships and vehicles[]
- Class-J freighter • USS Enterprise (Constitution-class) • Erehwon • IKS Kormak
- Referenced only
- USS Crockett
Locations[]
- Pegasus IV • Sector 412 • Starbase 12 • Starbase 23
- Referenced only
- Heaven • Moscow • Prufrock's World • Sector 39J • United States
Races and cultures[]
- Human (Native American • Russian) • Horta • Klingee • Klingon • Vulcan
- Referenced only
- G'lops • Organian • Orion • Romulan
States and organizations[]
- Enyart's • Federation Council • Klingon Empire • Starfleet • Starfleet Academy • Starfleet Command • Starfleet Medical Corps • Starfleet Operations • United Federation of Planets
Science and technology[]
- acetylcholine • Aleph • communicator • cranial interface • electronic • food synthesizer • hour • hyperanchor • hypospray • intercom • life support • light • medical tricorder • minute • negative energy • phaser • phaser bank • photon torpedo • pocket universe • second • sensor • sensor net • sensory augmenter • shield generator • star • starship • subspace radio • time • torpedo • tractor beam • transporter • transtator • transwarp drive • turbolift • ultraviolet • universe • viewscreen • warp engine
Ranks and titles[]
- captain • chief engineer • commodore • communications officer • councilman • councilor • ensign • lieutenant • Orion slave girl • politician • professor
Other references[]
- 19th century • alcohol • Altairian devil • American Civil War • American Wild West • asteroid • Bass • beard • bridge • brig • buffalo • cape • Chablis • checkers • coffee • corn • crustacean • crystal • cyclor • daystromite • day • doughnut • Earther • engineering • fine-toothed comb • giant amoeba • hallucination • Henry V • history • hull • ice cream • iron • jumpsuit • kebo • klaxon • lead • logic • mushroom • nickel • observation lounge • onion • planet • poker • rec room • Rigellian husk • sabora • Saurian brandy • science • She Wore a Yellow Ribbon • shore leave • sickbay • skeleton crew • tea • three-dimensional chess • Through the Looking Glass • transporter room • tree • Vulcan nerve pinch • water • weapon • wine • The Wizard of Oz • yellow alert
Appendices[]
Images[]
Cover image.
Cover art by Keith Birdsong.
German language edition cover image.
German language re-issue edition cover image.
Kirk.
Enterprise.
Connections[]
Timeline[]
| published order | ||
|---|---|---|
| Previous novel: Shell Game |
TOS numbered novels | Next novel: Windows on a Lost World |
| chronological order | ||
| Previous Adventure: Devices and Desires |
Next Adventure: Windows on a Lost World | |
Translations[]
- 1996
- Japanese : 航宙艦消失!, translated by Hiroshi Saito. (Hayakawa Bunko)
- 1997
- German : Die Raumschiff-Falle, translated by Harald Pusch. (Heyne)