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A routine training mission with a young Kirk and Gary Mitchell on the U.S.S. Republic is diverted to a planet where centuries of bloody interplanetary conflict are about to end in a ceremony of reconciliation. Kirk and Gary quickly find themselves in the middle of a life-and-death struggle against terrorists.
Captain Kirk recalls a time seven years earlier, when he and Gary Mitchell were assigned to the U.S.S. Constitution, Gary as chief navigator and Kirk as second officer, when the starship comes to the defense of an alien world menaced by ruthless invaders. An early attack leaves both the captain and the first officer in comas, and Kirk must take command for the first time.
The gripping conclusion to the story of Jim Kirk's lost friend, the man who helped shape a Starfleet captain.