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The Enterprise travels
through a extreme gravitational anomaly, actually a 'fold' in the fabric
of space, and ends up about 300 parsecs away from their starting point
in a empty (no stars), unexplored section of the galaxy. The engines are
damaged and new supplies are needed.
After an extensive search, they
find one star with one planet revolving around it. There is no sign of
life, but the strange thing about this planet is that there seems to be
thousands of transporter signals all over the planet at any given
second. When Kirk, McCoy, Scotty and Rand beam down, they discover that
there is life on the planet that is not only intelligent, but humanoid
and quite similar to Vulcans, physiologically. They are captured by the Guardians
and brought before the Protectors.
Another native has been captured and
is also brought before the Protectors and Kirk discovers he is part of
the Technic, a technological sect that is refuting some of the old ideas
that the Protectors hold to be true, like how they are the center of the
universe and no other life exists beyond their planet.
The landing
crew's presence eventually leads Kirk to break Starfleet's number one
rule of not interfering with the progress of a civilization or people.
This in turn causes him great grief and he is not quite sure how to
proceed. There is also a problem with the sun, and Spock comes up with
an idea that will either save the crew of the Enterprise, or cause
the star to go nova. All this is going on while Kirk is being held
captive and cannot escape because of all the transporter signals.
Abode of Life is a
science fiction book in the Star Trek world and was written by Lee Correy.
It is Star Trek number 6.
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