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Shatner and his co-writers resurrect captain James T. Kirk to join Ambassador Spock and the crew from Star TrekR: The Next GenerationTM in saving the Federation. A radical Vulcan group, the Symmetrists, sets out to prove the Federation's vulnerability by unleashing a deadly virogen that destroys chlorophyll and kills the food supply as a warning against ecological monocultures. Continuing the storylines from the last Star TrekR movies and following through on the first series' stories about Kodos the Executioner, Shatner's team has created a compelling and satisfying morality play with a wiser Kirk and more emotional Spock. Recommended for Star TrekR collections. Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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A lethal virus, inimical to all conventional forms of plant life, threatens the entire Federation with starvation and dissolution. With the Federation already on the brink of overpopulation, Starfleet's resources are stretched to their limit. Whole worlds and even complete star systems are placed under quarantine, causing interstellar food supplies to fun dangerously low, and hostile alien empires to eye the weakened Federation with malevolence. But now, in this moment of Starfleet's greatest need, Captain James T. Kirk, long believed dead, embarks on a desperate quest to find the true source of the mysterious virus. Elsewhere in the galaxy, Ambassador Spock, his diplomatic efforts stalled by the spread of famine and chaos, returns to his native world of Vulcan to confront a mystery of a deeply personal nature. Did Sarek, his legendary father, really die of natural causes - or was he murdered? Determined to learn the truth, Spock begins a highly logical investigation that soon leads him to a reunion with a long-lost friend he never expected to see again.

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