Starless World: Gordon Eklund

Star Trek Adventures Series, No. 3. While investigating rumours of renewed activity by the Klingo Empire within the Galactic Core, the U.S.S. Enterprise makes contact with a shuttle craft from the U.S.S. Rickover - a Starship presumed lost with all hands over twenty years earlier. The lone occupant of the shuttle craft is Thomas Clayton, once Kirk's room mate at the Starfleet Academy, now the self-proclaimed Chosen Son and favoured prophet of a deity he calls Ay-nab. Kirk disregards this until his engines are taken control of by an unexplained outside force - a force which Clayton insists is now taking Krk and company to meet his god. Cover art by Alister Pearson.