New novel Star Trek: A Contest of Principles by Greg Cox available for pre-order
A Contest of Principles, a Star Trek: The Original Series novel, is due out in November
A new Star Trek novel featuring the Original Series crew on their original five-year mission is now available for pre-order, shipping in November. Comicbook.com brought us the news last week that Star Trek: A Contest of Principles, by Greg Cox, tells the story of Kirk and crew, split between competing missions.
Cox, who also wrote last year’s novel The Antares Maelstrom, is a seasoned Star Trek writer with dozens of Star Trek and other licensed titles to his name. Among his non-Star Trek work are novels for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The 4400, Godzilla, and The Librarians, notable for starring Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Rebecca Romijn, and being frequently directed by Jonathan Frakes.
The novel’s synopsis read: “The planet Vok is holding its first free elections after years of oppressive military rule. Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the Starship Enterprise have been dispatched by Starfleet to serve as impartial observers, but remaining neutral proves a challenge, as Kirk confronts a tangled web of scandal, conspiracy, and assassination plots—with the stability of an entire sector at stake.
“To make matters worse, Dr. Leonard McCoy has vanished while on a mission of mercy to Braco, a nearby planet only a system away. With Kirk unable to abandon his vital mission on Vok to hunt for his friend, it's up to First Officer Spock and Christine Chapel to lead a team in search of the missing doctor, even if it means risking whatever fate befell McCoy.
“Unknown to his friends and crewmates, however, McCoy has been spirited away to another world, Ozalor, where he's expected to find a cure for a mysterious ailment plaguing a member of the planet's ruling family. Torn between his Hippocratic oath and his desire to escape, McCoy finds himself at the center of deadly palace intrigues—and a struggle for power that may ultimately consume all three worlds!”
Star Trek: A Contest of Principles is now available to pre-order at Amazon.com, or you can find out more directly from the publisher, at simonandschuster.com.
