Worlds in Collision (Memory Prime; Prime Directive): Signature Edition

✍ Scribed by Reeves-Stevens, Judith

• Book ID: 108707323
• Publisher: Pocket Books/Star Trek
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 457 KB
• Series: Star Trek; TOS
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780743488143

✦ Synopsis

Of all the experiences shared by Captain Kirk and the crew of the Starship Enterprise ™ during their first five-year mission, two were among the most perilous: a journey to the nonphysical realm of Transition where the massive computer known as Memory Prime was situated, and the nightmarish mission to Talin IV, a world poised on the brink of destruction that Kirk was forbidden to save.

In the twenty-third century, a hundred years before a sentient artificial life-form would be allowed to earn a Starfleet commission, the Federation considers the use of self-aware artificial intelligences to be little more than slavery, except for the immense computer system of Memory Prime -- the key hub in the Federation's vast network of interstellar library planets. There, the A.I.s known as Pathfinders inhabit Transition -- a virtual world so different from our universe that the A.I.s themselves debate whether or not the physical universe is real. But when an ancient enemy...