THE HUMAN ADVENTURE CONTINUES
In the aftermath of the astonishing events of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, the captain and officers of the U.S.S. Enterprise
remain haunted by their encounter with the vast artificial intelligence
of V'Ger...and by the sacrifice and ascension of their friend and
shipmate, Willard Decker.
As James T. Kirk, Spock, and Leonard
McCoy attempt to cope with the personal fallout of that ordeal, a
chapter from their mutual past is reopened, raising troubling new
questions about the relationship among God, Man, and AI. On the recently
settled world of Daran IV, the former refugees of the Fabrini worldship
Yonada are being divided by conflicting ideologies, as those clinging
to their theocratic past vie with visionaries of a future governed by
reason alone.
Now, echoes of the V'Ger encounter reverberate among the Enterprise
officers who years ago overthrew the Oracle, the machine-god that
controlled Yonada. Confronting the consequences of those actions, Kirk,
Spock, and McCoy also face choices that will decide the fate of a
civilization, and which may change them forever.