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On patrol along the Klingon border, the Enterprise picks up strange signals from a planet orbiting a flare star. The landing party finds the ruins of a dead civilization and traces of a Federation ship missing for more than ninety years, and Lieutenant Ortegas discovers a family connection to its lost crew.
While searching for a missing survey ship near a pre-warp world, Pike, Una, Spock and Uhura end up stranded on the surface, where advanced technology simply stops working. The planet is home to groups of many species brought there by the Skagarans, and Pike finds an old friend among them.
From the embers of his early childhood among Earth's blossoming interstellar colonies, to the terrifying conflagration that led him back to the world of his birth - the path of Pike's astonishing life leads through fire again and again. But even amid the ashes of Talos IV, the dreams smoldering still within his aging, radiation-ravaged breast fan the flames of Pike's spirit to accomplish one final task.
After murder and sabotage hit Kathara Station, a secret research facility above the accretion disk of a black hole, the Enterprise is sent to investigate. Pike knows this black hole: years ago a mission there went badly wrong. As enemies close in, the station director turns out to have secrets of her own.
Una Chin-Riley and Christopher Pike first met at Starfleet Academy, when Una was helping a family of Euxhana refugees. Twenty-five years later, the Enterprise is providing security for trade talks with the Chionians when a pro-Euxhana saboteur strikes, and the suspect has a history with Una that could expose the secret she has kept all these years.
Hearing of the outbreak of hostilities between the United Federation of Planets and the Klingon Empire, Captain Christopher Pike attempts to bring the USS Enterprise home to join in the fight. But in the hellish nebula known as the Pergamum, the stalwart commander instead finds an epic battle of his own, pitting ancient enemies against one another—with not just the Enterprise, but her crew as the spoils of war.
An outbreak of deadly Rigelian fever threatens the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise. Dr. Phillip Boyce comes up with a highly experimental and untested new treatment that might save the crew.
Long before Kirk began his own voyages, Captain Christopher Pike led the Starship Enterprise into uncharted realms of space, encountering strange and unearthly dangers - including vast, spacefaring life-forms capable of devastating entire star systems!
Spock struggles to reconcile his many obligations -- those forced on him by his Vulcan heritage, and those chosen by him upon his enlistment in Starfleet -- to balance the wishes of others against the desires of his own heart.
The U.S.S. Enterprise, under the command of Captain Christopher Pike, responds to a distress call from a Federation outpost near the Klingon border. Starbase 18 lies in ruin. There are no survivors.