More Beautiful Than Death (Star Trek: The Original Series)
Science fiction
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
Summary
An original novel based on the thrilling new Star Trek movies!Based on the &“Kelvin Universe&” movie saga!Captain James T. Kirk and the Enterprise crew escort Spock&’s father, Ambassador Sarek of Vulcan, to a dilithium-rich planet called Akiron. They arrive to… find this world under siege by creatures that some of the planet&’s denizens believe are demons. Sarek orders Kirk to abandon the mission, but the young captain won&’t turn his back on people in danger. After a harrowing encounter with the dark-energy &“demons,&” Kirk&’s belief in a rational universe is challenged by a mystic who insists that it wasn&’t coincidence that brought Kirk to Akiron, but the alien equivalent of a Karmic debt.Meanwhile, aboard the Enterprise, Sarek&’s young Vulcan aide L&’Nel has a sinister agenda—and its chief objective appears to be the cold-blooded murder of Spock!