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Series: Star Trek
Volume: 67
Genre: SF
ISBN: 0671872508
Pages: 305 pages
Publisher: Pocket Books
Price: $5.99
Reader Rating: Not rated

The Great Starship Race by Diane Carey

Description: When a friendly, alien people called the Rey make contact with the Federation, they are thrilled to learn the galaxy has a large number of intelligent races.

To bring the myriad cultures to their world, the Rey host a celebration inviting spacefaring peoples to send representatives ships to compete against one another and The Great Starship Race is born.

As the Federation's flagship, the U.S.S. Enterprise under the command of Captain James T. Kirk, is sent to compete. But the event takes a dark turn when a Romulan warship arrives and demands to join the race. Soon, Kirk and the Romulan commander are engaged in a deadly game of cat and mouse, and, for Kirk and his crew, the race becomes a struggle for survival. Faced with treachery at every turn, Kirk must protect his ship from relentless attack and prevent the annihilation of an entire world.