Chain of Attack

Stranded in a hostile galaxy, the Enterprise is caught up in a deadly interstellar conflict!

Plot Summary
From the back cover
 * While mapping a series of gravitational anomalies, the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) is suddenly hurled millions of light-years through space, into a distant galaxy of scorched and lifeless worlds...into the middle of an endless interstellar war.


 * With no way back home, the crippled starship finds itself under relentless and suicidal attack by both warring fleets! And Captain Kirk must gamble the lives of his crew on his ability to stop a war that has raged for centuries -- and ravaged a galaxy...

Background Information

 * This was the first novel to be released by Titan Books in Britain, but the 32nd to be released by Pocket Books in the US.
 * A sequel to this book was published as #43, The Final Nexus.
 * At one point in the novel, Captain Kirk comments that the Enterprise phasers can't be set to stun, contradicting the episode.

Characters

 * James T. Kirk : Captain.
 * Spock : Commander
 * Leonard McCoy : CMO
 * Montgomery Scott : Lieutenant Commander.
 * Hikaru Sulu : Lieutenant.
 * Uhura : Lieutenant.
 * Pavel Chekov : Ensign.
 * Christine Chapel : Nurse.
 * Jason Crandall : Doctor. Federation observer.
 * Rajanih : Doctor in charge of the dental unit on board the Enterprise
 * Radzyk : leader of the Zeator, a species at war with the Hoshan
 * Hrozak : leader of the Hoshan, a species at war with the Zeator
 * Bolduc : another member of the Hoshan
 * Ckeita : leader of the Aragos, an alien species that own one of the closest planets to the gravitational anomaly which sent the Enterprise to another galaxy.