The Three-Minute Universe

''The Galaxy is on fire. And only the Enterprise can save it.''

Plot Summary

 * From the book jacket
 * The Sackers. In all Captain James T. Kirk's travels, he has never found a race more universally shunned and abhorred. Their mere appearance caused most Federation members to become violently ill.


 * Now the Sackers have performed a deed whose brutality matches their horrifying exterior. They have stolen a revolutionary new scientific device - murdering an entire race in the process - and used it to create a rip in the fabric of space, a hole through which another universe is rapidly leaking. Unless Captain Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise can find a way to stop the new universe's expansion, it will consume - and utterly destroy - our own.

Background Information

 * This is the only Star Trek novel written by Barbara Paul.
 * The title refers to the state of a universe that is only three minutes old.

Characters

 * James T. Kirk : Captain.
 * Spock
 * Uhura
 * Montgomery Scott
 * Pavel Chekov
 * Berengaria : Lieutenant.