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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Prequel Focuses on Pike/Una Early Years
Author Una McCormack's prequel novel Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Asylum will spotlight Christopher Pike & Una Chin-Riley's early years.
Article Summary
- Una McCormack pens 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Asylum,' a prequel novel.
- Explores early relationship between Christopher Pike and Una Chin-Riley.
- Story weaves a tale from Starfleet Academy days to future U.S.S. Enterprise exploits.
- Pre-order available for a September 24th release; season three of series in production.
It looks like we'll get a prequel to the Star Trek: The Original Series prequel Strange New Worlds, and it didn't take another TV series for it to happen. Una McCormack will pen the novel Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Asylum that establishes Christopher Pike and Una Chin-Riley, played by Anson Mount and Rebecca Romijn in the series) and their early relationship before they became captain and first officer of the U.S.S. Enterprise, starting as teacher and student. The novel comes courtesy of Simon & Schuster, which released the synopsis.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Asylum: Synopsis
When Una Chin-Riley and Christopher Pike meet at Starfleet Academy after one of his lectures, they immediately become friends. A stellar student, Una is the "poster girl" of her class, and Pike is determined to become a Starfleet captain with his own ship, rhetorically assembling his dream crew. As their friendship evolves, Pike also suspects Una is involved with the Euxhana, a Chionian cultural minority, who are seeking asylum in Federation space, leading to more questions than answers.
Twenty-five years later, Una and Pike are working together on the USS Enterprise to settle a Chionian trade agreement when a pro-Euxhana saboteur launches a terrorist attack. When the suspect is taken into custody for interrogation and is discovered to have a history with Una, her past associations resurface, threatening to expose a secret she's been harboring all these years….
McCormack is a Star Trek veteran who contributed 10 novels: The Lotus Flower (part of The Worlds of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine trilogy), Hollow Men, The Never-Ending Sacrifice, Brinkmanship, The Missing, the New York Times bestseller The Fall: The Crimson Shadow, Enigma Tales, Discovery: The Way to the Stars, the acclaimed USA Today bestseller Picard: The Last Best Hope, and Discovery: Wonderlands. The author also wrote five Doctor Who novels for BBC books and several short stories and audio dramas. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season three is currently in production. The book is available for pre-order and set for release on September 24th.
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