Star Trek: The Janus Gate — Present Tense
{4.5/5} “He made the missing map seem like a minor inconvenience, a problem they could rectify with just a little hard work. And Captain Kirk’s gift for command, Uhura thought, was that he brought out so much of the best in his crew that he really could turn catastrophes like this into minor inconveniences. She saw the young ensign’s shoulders straighten with fierce determination.”
Star Trek: The Janus Gate — Present Tense by L. A. Graf, published in 2002
After escaping Psi 2000 with a unique approach to firing the engines, Captain James T. Kirk and the Enterprise found themselves travelling backwards in time. When they stop, they find they’re 3 days in the past. They can’t arrive early for their next mission, because then there will be 2 Enterprises in 2 different places at the same time. So they go back to an uninhabited planet that they’ve been to before. But a survey team finds that 19 starships have crashed there.
This novel is about working together when you’ve lost your team leader. It features Uhura’s first command of a landing party, and Chekov’s first landing party.
I’ve read 8 books by Graf. I previously reviewed Star Trek: New Earth — Rough Trails.