When a vengeful Romulan from a shattered future emerges decades too early and destroys the planet Vulcan, a brash young cadet named James Kirk and the coolly logical Spock must set aside their clashing instincts to save Earth from the same fate. Alan Dean Foster's novelization of the 2009 film follows the crew of the Enterprise on their first mission together, born out of loss and thrown immediately into crisis.
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