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{{novel
 
| type = novel
 
| type = novel
 
| title = The Wounded Sky
 
| title = The Wounded Sky
| cover image = [[file:woundedSky.jpg|220px]]
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| cover image = woundedSkyArt.jpg
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| artist = [[Boris Vallejo]]
| series = [[Star Trek: The Original Series|The Original Series]]
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| series = {{sT|The Original Series}}
 
| number = 13
 
| number = 13
 
| author = [[Diane Duane]]
 
| author = [[Diane Duane]]
 
| publisher = [[Pocket Books]]
 
| publisher = [[Pocket Books]]
 
| format = [[paperback]]
 
| format = [[paperback]]
| published = [[December]] [[1983]]
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| published ={{srcdate|1983|December}}
 
| reformat = [[paperback]]
 
| reformat = [[paperback]]
 
| reprint = [[August]] [[1985]]
 
| reprint = [[August]] [[1985]]
 
| pages = 255
 
| pages = 255
| ISBN = ''(1983)'' ISBN 0671473891<br>''(1985)'' ISBN 067174352X
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| ISBN = ISBN 0671473891 (1983), ISBN 067174352X (1985)
 
| date = [[2275]]
 
| date = [[2275]]
 
| stardate = 9250.0
 
| stardate = 9250.0
| altcover = [[file:the_Wounded_Sky_Original.jpg|220px]]
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| altcover = the Wounded Sky HC.jpg
| caption = Original [[1983]] cover
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| caption = Book club [[hardcover]] edition cover image.
|}}
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}}
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'''''The Wounded Sky''''' is a ''[[Star Trek]]'' [[novel]], the 13th book in the [[pocket TOS|numbered series]] of ''[[TOS]]'' novels published by [[Pocket Books]]. This volume was written by [[Diane Duane]] and released in {{srcdate|1983|December}}.
==Introduction ([[wikipedia:blurb|blurb]])==
 
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A pretty alien scientist invents the [[inversion drive|Intergalactic Inversion Drive]], an engine system that transcends [[warp drive]] and the [[USS Enterprise (NCC-1701)|''Enterprise'']] will be the first to test it! The [[Klingon]]s attempt to thwart the test, but a greater danger looms when strange symptoms surface among the crew and time becomes meaningless.
 
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==Description==
 
:''A pretty alien scientist invents the [[inversion drive|Intergalactic Inversion Drive]], an engine system that transcends [[warp drive]] and the {{ship|USS|Enterprise|NCC-1701}} will be the first to test it! The [[Klingon]]s attempt to thwart the test, but a greater danger looms when strange symptoms surface among the crew and time becomes meaningless.''
   
Now [[Captain]] [[James T. Kirk|Kirk]] and his friends face their greatest challenge - to repair the fabric of the [[Universe]] before time is lost forever!
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:''Now [[Captain]] [[James T. Kirk|Kirk]] and his friends face their greatest challenge - to repair the fabric of the [[universe]] before time is lost forever!''
   
 
==Summary==
 
==Summary==
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However, during the course of the inversions the crew experience hallucinations, seeing historical and future events they did not witness and each other's past experiences. Worse, their next jump is accompanied by another supernova and observation shows an area of space where entropy and the normal flow of time has ceased. The use of the drive has torn a hole with another universe where entropy does not exist.
 
However, during the course of the inversions the crew experience hallucinations, seeing historical and future events they did not witness and each other's past experiences. Worse, their next jump is accompanied by another supernova and observation shows an area of space where entropy and the normal flow of time has ceased. The use of the drive has torn a hole with another universe where entropy does not exist.
   
The ''Enterprise'' journeys into the anomaly, where the crew see themselves travelling through a landscape to reach the being at the centre of the universe. [[Spock]], [[Nyota Uhura|Uhura]] and [[D'Hennish]], a crewmember whose species perceive time differently, manage to communicate with the creature, giving it self-awareness for the first time, and convince it the breach between universes must cease. [[K't'lk]], the scientist who invented the drive, is able to weave a universe for the creature to inhabit after they are gone and stays behind when the breach is sealed.
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The ''Enterprise'' journeys into the anomaly, where the crew see themselves travelling through a landscape to reach the being at the centre of the universe. [[Spock]], [[Nyota Uhura]] and [[D'Hennish]], a crewmember whose species perceive time differently, manage to communicate with the creature, giving it self-awareness for the first time, and convince it the breach between universes must cease. [[K't'lk]], the scientist who invented the drive, is able to weave a universe for the creature to inhabit after they are gone and stays behind when the breach is sealed.
   
 
The ''Enterprise'' returns to its own universe where the effect of the breach has been reversed. Kirk finds that, as per her species' reproduction, K't'lk left behind an egg which hatches a new version of herself, who joins [[Montgomery Scott|Scotty]] in working on the drive again.
 
The ''Enterprise'' returns to its own universe where the effect of the breach has been reversed. Kirk finds that, as per her species' reproduction, K't'lk left behind an egg which hatches a new version of herself, who joins [[Montgomery Scott|Scotty]] in working on the drive again.
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===Characters===
 
===Characters===
 
:[[Larry Aledort]] • [[Amekentra]] • [[Lia Burke]] • [[Christine Chapel]] • [[Pavel Chekov]] • [[Dabach]] • [[Niwa Awath-mánë ri d'Hennish enu-ma'Qe]] • [[Dithra]] • [[Rhonda S. Halloran]] • [[Heming]] • [[Katha'sat]] • [[Janíce Kerasus]] • [[James T. Kirk]] • [[K's't'lk]]/[[K't'lk]] • [[Mahásë]] • [[Leonard McCoy]] • [[Mayri Sagady]] • [[Montgomery Scott]] • [[Spock]] • [[Hikaru Sulu]] • [[Harb Tanzer]] • [[Nyota Uhura]]
 
:[[Larry Aledort]] • [[Amekentra]] • [[Lia Burke]] • [[Christine Chapel]] • [[Pavel Chekov]] • [[Dabach]] • [[Niwa Awath-mánë ri d'Hennish enu-ma'Qe]] • [[Dithra]] • [[Rhonda S. Halloran]] • [[Heming]] • [[Katha'sat]] • [[Janíce Kerasus]] • [[James T. Kirk]] • [[K's't'lk]]/[[K't'lk]] • [[Mahásë]] • [[Leonard McCoy]] • [[Mayri Sagady]] • [[Montgomery Scott]] • [[Spock]] • [[Hikaru Sulu]] • [[Harb Tanzer]] • [[Nyota Uhura]]
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{{ref}} [[Aesculapius]] • [[Ludwig van Beethoven]] • [[DD Tauri V]] • [[Stephen Decatur]] • [[T'k'rt't]] • [[Y'tk't]]
 
{{ref}} [[Aesculapius]] • [[Ludwig van Beethoven]] • [[DD Tauri V]] • [[Stephen Decatur]] • [[T'k'rt't]] • [[Y'tk't]]
   
 
===Races and cultures===
 
===Races and cultures===
 
:[[Adarin]] • [[Altasa]] • [[Andorian]] • [[Eseriat]] • [[Hamalki]] • [[hestv]] • [[Human]] • [[na'mdeihei]] • [[Sadrao]] • [[Sulamid]] • [[Tegmenir]] • [[Vulcan]]
 
:[[Adarin]] • [[Altasa]] • [[Andorian]] • [[Eseriat]] • [[Hamalki]] • [[hestv]] • [[Human]] • [[na'mdeihei]] • [[Sadrao]] • [[Sulamid]] • [[Tegmenir]] • [[Vulcan]]
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{{ref}}[[Romulan]]
 
{{ref}}[[Romulan]]
   
 
===Locations===
 
===Locations===
:[[109 Piscium]] • [[Acamar system]] • [[aia'Hnnrihstei]] • [[Alexandria II]] • [[Alpha Arietis]] • [[Altair IV]] • [[Hamal IV|Hamal]] • [[Iota Sculptoris]] • [[Majoris Congeries]] • [[Mars]] • [[Rasalgethi]] • [[Rukbah V]] • [[Sa-na'Mdeihein]] • [[Small Magellanic Cloud]] • [[Sol]] • [[Starbase 18]] • [[Zeta-10 Scorpii]]
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:[[109 Piscium]] • [[Acamar system]] • [[aia'Hnnrihstei]] • [[Alexandria II]] • [[Alpha Arietis]] • [[Altair IV]] • [[Coma B patrol corridor]] • [[Hamal IV|Hamal]] • [[Iota Sculptoris]] • [[Majoris Congeries]] • [[Mars]] • [[Rasalgethi]] • [[Rukbah V]] • [[Sa-na'Mdeihein]] • [[Small Magellanic Cloud]] • [[Sol]] • [[Starbase 18]] • [[Zeta-10 Scorpii]]
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{{ref}}[[Andor]] • [[Antares A II]] • [[DD Tauri]] • [[Earth]] ([[California]] • [[Black Sea|Euxine]] • [[Kazalkum]] • [[Los Angeles]] • [[Pompeii]] • [[San Francisco]] • [[Stonehenge]] • [[Tripoli]] • [[Van Nuys]]) • [[Luna]] ([[Bianchini]] • [[Flamsteed]] • [[Herigonius]] • [[Jura Range]]) • [[Mirfak XI-C]] ([[Ten-Thousand-Step Stair]]) • [[Orual]] • [[Procyon A]] ([[Serengeti]] • [[Mount Meritaja]]) • [[Sadr]] • [[Theta Carinae]] • [[Vercingetorix IV]] • {{dis|Vulcan|planet}}
 
{{ref}}[[Andor]] • [[Antares A II]] • [[DD Tauri]] • [[Earth]] ([[California]] • [[Black Sea|Euxine]] • [[Kazalkum]] • [[Los Angeles]] • [[Pompeii]] • [[San Francisco]] • [[Stonehenge]] • [[Tripoli]] • [[Van Nuys]]) • [[Luna]] ([[Bianchini]] • [[Flamsteed]] • [[Herigonius]] • [[Jura Range]]) • [[Mirfak XI-C]] ([[Ten-Thousand-Step Stair]]) • [[Orual]] • [[Procyon A]] ([[Serengeti]] • [[Mount Meritaja]]) • [[Sadr]] • [[Theta Carinae]] • [[Vercingetorix IV]] • {{dis|Vulcan|planet}}
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====Enterprise locations====
 
====Enterprise locations====
 
:[[Stellar cartography department|astrocartography]] • [[bridge]] • [[corridor]] • [[engineering]] • [[observation lounge]] • [[quarters]] • [[recreation deck]] • [[sickbay]]
 
:[[Stellar cartography department|astrocartography]] • [[bridge]] • [[corridor]] • [[engineering]] • [[observation lounge]] • [[quarters]] • [[recreation deck]] • [[sickbay]]
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===Starships and vehicles===
 
===Starships and vehicles===
 
====Federation vessels====
 
====Federation vessels====
:{{USS|Arizona|Defender class}} • {{USS|Armstrong|cutter}} • {{USS|Bannockburn}} • {{USS|Bismarck|Defender class}} • {{USS|Bonhomme Richard|NCC-1712}} • {{USS|Challenger|NCC-1715}} • {{USS|Clarke}} • {{USS|Condor|NCC-1866}} • {{USS|Constellation|NCC-1974}} • {{USS|Constitution|NCC-1700}} • {{USS|Dataphda}} • {{USS|Divine Wind}} • {{USS|Eilonwy}} • {{USS|Erinnye}} • {{USS|Ewet}} • {{USS|Ferris's Folly}} • {{USS|Henrietta Leavitt}} • {{USS|Hypsipyle}} • {{USS|Inaieu}} • {{USS|Indomitable|Constitution class}} • {{USS|Intrepid|NCC-1730}} • {{USS|Isshasshte}} • {{USS|John F. Kennedy}} • {{USS|Kamë}} • {{USS|Lewis|cutter}} • {{USS|Lookfar}} • {{USS|Malacandra}} • {{USS|Manhattan}} • {{USS|Marya Morevna}} • {{USS|M'hasien}} • {{USS|Milton Humason}} • {{USS|Mor'anh Merin'hen}} • {{USS|Na'i'in}} • {{USS|Potemkin|NCC-1657}} • {{USS|Q.E. III}} • {{USS|Queen Christina}} • {{USS|Ransom}} • {{USS|Raptor}} • {{USS|Resolute}} • {{USS|Rodger Young}} • {{USS|Sadat}} • {{USS|Sorithias}} • {{USS|Sulam}} • {{USS|Surak|Constitution class}} • {{USS|Tao Feng}} • {{USS|Thermopylae}} • {{USS|T'Laea}} • {{USS|Valkyr}} • {{USS|Yorktown|Constitution class}}
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:{{uSS|Arizona|Defender class}} • {{uSS|Armstrong|NCC-1784}} • {{uSS|Bannockburn}} • {{uSS|Bismarck|Defender class}} • {{uSS|Bonhomme Richard|NCC-1712}} • {{uSS|Challenger|NCC-1715}} • {{uSS|Clarke|Oberth class}} • {{uSS|Condor|NCC-1866}} • {{uSS|Constellation II}} • {{uSS|Constitution|NCC-1700}} • {{uSS|Dataphda}} • {{uSS|Divine Wind}} • {{uSS|Eilonwy}} • {{uSS|Erinnye}} • {{uSS|Ewet}} • {{uSS|Ferris's Folly}} • {{uSS|Henrietta Leavitt}} • {{uSS|Hypsipyle}} • {{uSS|Inaieu}} • {{uSS|Indomitable|Constitution class}} • {{uSS|Intrepid|NCC-1730}} • {{uSS|Isshasshte}} • {{uSS|John F. Kennedy}} • {{uSS|Kamë}} • {{uSS|Lewis|cutter}} • {{uSS|Lookfar}} • {{uSS|Malacandra}} • {{uSS|Manhattan}} • {{uSS|Marya Morevna}} • {{uSS|M'hasien}} • {{uSS|Milton Humason}} • {{uSS|Mor'anh Merin'hen}} • {{uSS|Na'i'in}} • {{uSS|Potemkin|NCC-1657}} • {{uSS|Q.E. III}} • {{uSS|Queen Christina}} • {{uSS|Ransom}} • {{uSS|Raptor}} • {{uSS|Resolute}} • {{uSS|Rodger Young}} • {{uSS|Sadat}} • {{uSS|Sorithias}} • {{uSS|Sulam}} • {{uSS|Surak|Constitution class}} • {{uSS|Tao Feng}} • {{uSS|Thermopylae|NCC-4351}} • {{uSS|T'Laea}} • {{uSS|Valkyr}} • {{uSS|Yorktown|Constitution class}}
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====Klingon Defense Force vessels====
 
====Klingon Defense Force vessels====
 
:{{IKS|Amak}} • {{IKS|Enekti}} • {{IKS|Kaza}} • {{IKS|K'j'khrry}} • {{IKS|Kytin}} • {{IKS|Menekku}} • {{IKS|Okuv}} • {{IKS|Tukab}}
 
:{{IKS|Amak}} • {{IKS|Enekti}} • {{IKS|Kaza}} • {{IKS|K'j'khrry}} • {{IKS|Kytin}} • {{IKS|Menekku}} • {{IKS|Okuv}} • {{IKS|Tukab}}
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===Other references===
 
===Other references===
:[[Acta Mega-Astrophysicalis]] • [[adrenocorticotropic hormone]] • [[ailurin]] • [[alicorne]] • [[allcall]] • [[Alroth]] • [[altar]] • [[Architectrix]] • [[Ardrosam-G]] • ''[[arie'mnu]]'' • [[Ballad of Orange and Green]] • [[Black Fleet]] • [[Caledax]] • [[dilithium]] • [[flitter]] • [[humpback whale]] • [[inertrogen]] • [[inversion drive]] • [[Jane's Fighting Ships]] • [[kazoo]] • [[landshark]] • ''[[M'hektath]]'' • [[Neonor]] • [[nova]] • [[poker]] • [[Rofenisin]] • [[Suspenar]] • [[Thinking Planet]] • [[Unifactor]] • [[veriglas]] • [[Wolf-Rayet star]]
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:[[Acta Mega-Astrophysicalis]] • [[adrenocorticotropic hormone]] • [[ailurin]] • [[alicorne]] • [[allcall]] • [[Alroth]] • [[altar]] • [[Architectrix]] • [[Ardrosam-G]] • ''[[arie'mnu]]'' • [[Artemis/Luna reflector]] • [[Ballad of Orange and Green]] • [[Black Fleet]] • [[Caledax]] • [[dilithium]] • [[flitter]] • [[humpback whale]] • [[inertrogen]] • [[inversion drive]] • [[Jane's Fighting Ships]] • [[kazoo]] • [[landshark]] • ''[[M'hektath]]'' • [[Neonor]] • [[nova]] • [[poker]] • [[Rofenisin]] • [[Suspenar]] • [[Thinking Planet]] • [[Unifactor]] • [[veriglas]] • [[Wolf-Rayet star]]
   
 
==Appendices==
 
==Appendices==
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===Background===
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* Although the [[Pocket Books]] chronology places this story in the [[year]] [[2275]], based on the experience of [[uSS Enterprise (NCC-1701) personnel|the crew]] and the level of [[technology]] described, the narrative makes repeated references to uniforms of the ''[[TOS]]'' style. The text describes uniforms resembling those of the mid-[[2260s]] [[decade]], rather than the ''[[Star Trek: The Motion Picture]]''-era uniforms that were in place ''circa'' [[2271]], which is also an issue with the cover art. This indicates that Starfleet used uniforms matching this description, of an intermediate style, for a time before changing again to the later maroon uniforms in use by [[2278]] (as established in {{e|TNG|Cause and Effect}}).
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* The cover artwork was a painting by artist [[Boris Vallejo]]. In international editions of the book, a different painting was used, the same image that appears as the frontispiece to the deluxe edition of [[FASA]]'s ''{{dis|Star Trek: The Role Playing Game|FASA)}}''.
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===Images===
 
===Images===
 
<gallery>
 
<gallery>
woundedSky.jpg|Cover image.
 
 
the Wounded Sky Original.jpg|Original cover image.
 
the Wounded Sky Original.jpg|Original cover image.
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woundedSkyArt.jpg|Cover art by [[Boris Vallejo]].
k's't'lk.jpg|Ks't'lk.
 
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the Wounded Sky1.jpg|Reprint edition cover image.
spock ws.jpg|Spock.
 
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the Wounded Sky HC.jpg|Book club [[hardcover]] edition cover image.
jtk ws.jpg|Kirk.
 
 
woundedSky.jpg|Reprint edition cover image.
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woundedSkyHC.jpg|Book club [[hardcover]] edition cover image.
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the Wounded Sky canada.jpg|[[Canada]] edition cover image.
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the Wounded Sky UK.jpg|Overseas edition cover image.
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derVerwundeteHimmel.jpg|[[German language]] edition cover image.
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derVerwundeteHimmelR.jpg|[[German language]] re-issue edition cover image.
 
k's't'lk.jpg|[[K's't'lk]].
 
spock ws.jpg|[[Spock]].
 
jtk ws.jpg|[[James T. Kirk]].
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ent1701himmel.jpg|The {{uSS|Enterprise|NCC-1701}}.
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d7himmel.jpg|[[D7 class]] [[battlecruiser]].
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spockHimmel.jpg|[[Spock]].
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jtkHimmel.jpg|[[James T. Kirk]].
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ent1701tochter.jpg|The {{uSS|Enterprise|NCC-1701}}.
 
</gallery>
 
</gallery>
   
 
===Connections===
 
===Connections===
{{Timeline|
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====Timeline====
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{{timeline
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| type3 = novel
series3=TOS|
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| series3 = TOS
format3=numnov|
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| format3 = numnov
before3=[[Mutiny on the Enterprise]]|
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| before3 = [[Mutiny on the Enterprise]]
after3=[[The Trellisane Confrontation]]|
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| after3 = [[The Trellisane Confrontation]]
prevpocket=[[To Reign in Hell: The Exile of Khan Noonien Singh]]{{bsmall|Chapter 22}}|
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| prevpocket = [[To Reign in Hell: The Exile of Khan Noonien Singh]]{{bsmall|Chapter 22}}
nextpocket=[[My Enemy, My Ally]]|
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| nextpocket = [[My Enemy, My Ally]]
 
}}
 
}}
   
==External link==
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===External link===
 
* {{memoryalpha}}
 
* {{memoryalpha}}
   
 
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The Wounded Sky is a Star Trek novel, the 13th book in the numbered series of TOS novels published by Pocket Books. This volume was written by Diane Duane and released in December 1983.

Description

A pretty alien scientist invents the Intergalactic Inversion Drive, an engine system that transcends warp drive and the Enterprise will be the first to test it! The Klingons attempt to thwart the test, but a greater danger looms when strange symptoms surface among the crew and time becomes meaningless.
Now Captain Kirk and his friends face their greatest challenge - to repair the fabric of the universe before time is lost forever!

Summary

The Enterprise is assigned to test a new propulsion system, based around a speck of material with infinite mass which will allow the ship to blink out of existence and reappear outside the galaxy. The Klingons attack once the Enterprise is out of Federation space and the ship turns a star supernova and uses the drive to evade them.

However, during the course of the inversions the crew experience hallucinations, seeing historical and future events they did not witness and each other's past experiences. Worse, their next jump is accompanied by another supernova and observation shows an area of space where entropy and the normal flow of time has ceased. The use of the drive has torn a hole with another universe where entropy does not exist.

The Enterprise journeys into the anomaly, where the crew see themselves travelling through a landscape to reach the being at the centre of the universe. Spock, Nyota Uhura and D'Hennish, a crewmember whose species perceive time differently, manage to communicate with the creature, giving it self-awareness for the first time, and convince it the breach between universes must cease. K't'lk, the scientist who invented the drive, is able to weave a universe for the creature to inhabit after they are gone and stays behind when the breach is sealed.

The Enterprise returns to its own universe where the effect of the breach has been reversed. Kirk finds that, as per her species' reproduction, K't'lk left behind an egg which hatches a new version of herself, who joins Scotty in working on the drive again.

References

Characters

Larry AledortAmekentraLia BurkeChristine ChapelPavel ChekovDabachNiwa Awath-mánë ri d'Hennish enu-ma'QeDithraRhonda S. HalloranHemingKatha'satJaníce KerasusJames T. KirkK's't'lk/K't'lkMahásëLeonard McCoyMayri SagadyMontgomery ScottSpockHikaru SuluHarb TanzerNyota Uhura
Referenced only
AesculapiusLudwig van BeethovenDD Tauri VStephen DecaturT'k'rt'tY'tk't

Races and cultures

AdarinAltasaAndorianEseriatHamalkihestvHumanna'mdeiheiSadraoSulamidTegmenirVulcan
Referenced only
Romulan

Locations

109 PisciumAcamar systemaia'HnnrihsteiAlexandria IIAlpha ArietisAltair IVComa B patrol corridorHamalIota SculptorisMajoris CongeriesMarsRasalgethiRukbah VSa-na'MdeiheinSmall Magellanic CloudSolStarbase 18Zeta-10 Scorpii
Referenced only
AndorAntares A IIDD TauriEarth (CaliforniaEuxineKazalkumLos AngelesPompeiiSan FranciscoStonehengeTripoliVan Nuys) • Luna (BianchiniFlamsteedHerigoniusJura Range) • Mirfak XI-C (Ten-Thousand-Step Stair) • OrualProcyon A (SerengetiMount Meritaja) • SadrTheta CarinaeVercingetorix IVVulcan

Enterprise locations

astrocartographybridgecorridorengineeringobservation loungequartersrecreation decksickbay

Starships and vehicles

Federation vessels

USS ArizonaUSS ArmstrongUSS BannockburnUSS BismarckUSS Bonhomme RichardUSS ChallengerUSS ClarkeUSS CondorUSS Constellation IIUSS ConstitutionUSS DataphdaUSS Divine WindUSS EilonwyUSS ErinnyeUSS EwetUSS Ferris's FollyUSS Henrietta LeavittUSS HypsipyleUSS InaieuUSS IndomitableUSS IntrepidUSS IsshasshteUSS John F. KennedyUSS KamëUSS LewisUSS LookfarUSS MalacandraUSS ManhattanUSS Marya MorevnaUSS M'hasienUSS Milton HumasonUSS Mor'anh Merin'henUSS Na'i'inUSS PotemkinUSS Q.E. IIIUSS Queen ChristinaUSS RansomUSS RaptorUSS ResoluteUSS Rodger YoungUSS SadatUSS SorithiasUSS SulamUSS SurakUSS Tao FengUSS ThermopylaeUSS T'LaeaUSS ValkyrUSS Yorktown

Klingon Defense Force vessels

IKS AmakIKS EnektiIKS KazaIKS K'j'khrryIKS KytinIKS MenekkuIKS OkuvIKS Tukab

States and organizations

Bureau of Planetary WorksFederation Department of ScienceKlingon EmpireRomulan Star EmpireStarfleet Academy

Other references

Acta Mega-Astrophysicalisadrenocorticotropic hormoneailurinalicorneallcallAlrothaltarArchitectrixArdrosam-Garie'mnuArtemis/Luna reflectorBallad of Orange and GreenBlack FleetCaledaxdilithiumflitterhumpback whaleinertrogeninversion driveJane's Fighting ShipskazoolandsharkM'hektathNeonornovapokerRofenisinSuspenarThinking PlanetUnifactorveriglasWolf-Rayet star

Appendices

Background

  • Although the Pocket Books chronology places this story in the year 2275, based on the experience of the crew and the level of technology described, the narrative makes repeated references to uniforms of the TOS style. The text describes uniforms resembling those of the mid-2260s decade, rather than the Star Trek: The Motion Picture-era uniforms that were in place circa 2271, which is also an issue with the cover art. This indicates that Starfleet used uniforms matching this description, of an intermediate style, for a time before changing again to the later maroon uniforms in use by 2278 (as established in TNG episode: "Cause and Effect").
  • The cover artwork was a painting by artist Boris Vallejo. In international editions of the book, a different painting was used, the same image that appears as the frontispiece to the deluxe edition of FASA's Star Trek: The Role Playing Game.

Images

Connections

Timeline

published order
Previous novel:
Mutiny on the Enterprise
TOS numbered novels Next novel:
The Trellisane Confrontation
chronological order
Previous Adventure:
To Reign in Hell: The Exile of Khan Noonien Singh
Chapter 22
Pocket Next Adventure:
My Enemy, My Ally


External link