A recovered manuscript that contradicts the official history of first contact leaves Kirk and Spock shaken by dreams they shouldn't be able to have — because a mind meld reveals they were actually there, decades before Zefram Cochrane's warp flight, when humans and Vulcans first met in secret. The story splits in two: present-day Kirk chasing the truth behind a suppressed history, and a young Enterprise crew, Gary Mitchell among them, thrown back to 2045 to live through the contact no one was supposed to remember.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Placement
- Star Trek: The Original Series
- contained in Star Trekomnibus