Description[]
- The rules are simple: draw a target. Track him down and "kill" him with a spork. Take your victim's target for your own. Oh, and make sure the player with your name doesn't get to you first. No safe zones. No time outs. The game ends when only one player remains.
- James T. Kirk is playing for fun. Leonard "Bones" McCoy is playing to get closer to a girl. But when a series of explosions rocks the usually placid Starfleet Academy campus, it becomes clear that somebody is playing the game for real. Is it one of the visiting Varkolak, on Earth to attend an intergalactic medical conference? Or could it be a member of a super-secret society at the Academy dedicated to taking care of threats to the Federation, no matter what rules they have to break to do it? Find out in The Assassination Game.
References[]
Characters[]
- Richard Barnett • Braxim • Cameron • Pavel Chekov • Daagen • Pellan Fel • Jake Finnegan • Freeman • Gaila • GarrRka • Gren • Ard Jarikar • James T. Kirk • Lartal • Frank Leslie • Nadja Luther • Leonard McCoy • Mitchell • Phozic • Rixtar • Spock • Hikaru Sulu • Viktor Tikhonov • Nyota Uhura • Usarn • Valerie • Amy Westin • Cindy Wójcik
- Referenced only
- Archer • Areia • Tom Arnet • Zefram Cochrane • Entarra • David Farragut • Yuri Gagarin • Gill • George Samuel Kirk, Sr. • George Samuel Kirk, Jr. • Winona Kirk • Jocelyn McCoy (see "Background" section) • Morrow • Christopher Pike
Starships and vehicles[]
- Davy Crockett (Class F shuttlecraft) • USS Excalibur (Constitution-class) • Indomitable (Starfleet shuttlecraft) • USS Potemkin (Constitution-class) • Txakarra-Hartz
- Referenced only
- USS Farragut • USS Intrepid • USS Lexington • USS Nautilus • USS Prester John • USS Surprise • USS Tennessee • USS Yorktown
Locations[]
- Argos telescope • Cavallo Point • Chinatown • Earth • Fort Baker • Golden Gate Bridge • Hawking Hall • Marin Headlands • Nimitz Hall • San Francisco • San Francisco Bay • Sausalito • Shran Hall • Starfleet Academy campus • Vanderbilt Hall • Warp Core • Yi Sun-Sin Hall
- Referenced only
- 40 Eridani A • Andoria • Delta Quadrant • Denobula • Eagle Nebula • Frankfurt • Gavaria sector • Mississippi • Pillars of Creation • P'Jem • Rura Penthe • Sector 001 • Shibuya • Tellar Prime • Theta Cygni • Theta Draconis • Varkolak Prime • Vega V • Vega colony • Voroth Sea • Vulcan • Zakdorn
Races and cultures[]
- Andorian • Bolian • Caitian • Deltan • Denobulan • Efrosian • Human • Illyrian • J'naii • Ktarian • Mizarian • Orion • Rigelian • Saurian • Tarsian • Tellarite • Trill • Varkolak • Vulcan • Xanno
- Referenced only
- Bajoran • Grazer • Klingon • Tzenkethi • Xindi
States and organizations[]
- Federation News Service • Graviton Society • Starfleet • Starfleet Academy • Starfleet Medical • Starfleet Security • United Federation of Planets • Varkolak Armada • Varkolak Assembly • Warp Core Breach
- Referenced only
- Breen Confederacy • Starfleet Corps of Engineers
Ranks and titles[]
- cadet • captain • Chief • doctor • Federation President • officer • professor • security officer
Science and technology[]
- anetrizine • animal • blood • common cold • communicator • computer • deflector shield • dyspnea • graviton • hair • heart • hermaphrodite • holo-novel • hydrocortilene • kelotane • PADD • phaser • phoretic analyzer • tachycardia • universal translator • vaccine • velocity • xenobiology
Other references[]
- apple blossom • assassination • Assassination Game • boridium • Chateau Picard • cogenitor • copse • corbomite • dead zone • Denebian slime devil • dog • duranium • Elementary Temporal Mechanics • emotion • fencing • hedgerow • Hruffa Bison plague • Interspecies Medical Summit • karate • kemocite • logic • metal • mint julep • moon • Parrises Squares • redshirt • Regulan blood worm • Romulan ale • Saurian brandy • sehlat • shampoo • soccer • space boomer • spork • Starfleet uniform • Suus Mahna • Tarkanian pig • telepathy • titanium • Varkolak language • Vulcan lute • werewolf • wolf • xenolinguistics
Appendices[]
Background[]
- Originally scheduled to be released in September 2011, the book was pushed back several times due to editorial input from Bad Robot. Races, institutions and even vessels were changed so as not to encroach on Bad Robot.[1]
- The Graviton Society were originally to be called The 31 but this was changed as it hewed too closely to plot elements of the then-in-production Star Trek Into Darkness.[1]
- This book shares a strong similarity to the overall plot of Star Trek Into Darkness despite changes the author is said to have made. A secret faction within Starfleet is working to foment war with an aggressive alien species through false flag terrorist attacks. A Federation Officer is a double agent working for the secret faction and wins Kirk's trust early on.
- As with other books in this series, Kirk and McCoy never meet Spock in this book. Spock does hear Kirk's name mentioned, however (pp. 208, 211-212).
- The sequence on pp. 17-25 is a homage to a sequence from TOS episode: "The Trouble with Tribbles". Similarly, Kirk's use of the corbomite bluff (pp. 35-36) is a homage to TOS episode: "The Corbomite Maneuver".
- This book presents the first meetings in the Kelvin timeline of Uhura and Sulu (p. 114) and of McCoy and Chekov (pp. 266-267).
- McCoy refers to his ex-wife as "Jocelyn" (p. 66), presumably a reference to Jocelyn Treadway, McCoy's ex-wife in the primary universe (TOS novels: Enterprise: The First Adventure, Shadows on the Sun). However, according to TOS comic: "IDW Star Trek, Issue 17", McCoy's ex-wife in the Kelvin timeline is Pamela Branch.
- Cadet Morrow (mentioned on p. 139) is possibly the Kelvin timeline version of Harold Morrow.
- This the only Starfleet Academy novel to carry a dedication. It is dedicated "To all my friends and colleagues on the USS Potemkin." Several references to characters and vehicles throughout the text indicate the aforementioned Potemkin is an internet relay chat (IRC) simulation group to which the author belongs.[1][2]
- The author commented: "I don't have any plans right now to write another Star Trek novel, but that's not for lack of wanting to. I'd love to write another YA Trek novel in this universe, or write an adult novel in the on-going Trek continuity. DS9 is my favorite of the shows; if I had my pick, that's what I would write. If you'd pass the word along to the editors on the adult side, I'd appreciate it..." [1]
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Connections[]
| published order | ||
|---|---|---|
| Previous novel: The Gemini Agent |
Starfleet Academy novels | Next novel: most recent |
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 The Trek Collective. Alan Gratz on The Assassination Game 27 June 2012. Retrieved 16 September 2013.
- ↑ USS Potemkin Simulation Group. Roster Page. Retrieved 16 September 2013.
Translations[]
- 2016
- German : Das Attentatsspiel, translated by Stephanie Pannen. (Cross Cult)
External link[]
- The Assassination Game article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.