The Assassination Game (Novel)

"The Assassination Game"

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Series	Star Trek: Starfleet Academy
Previous	The Gemini Agent
Next	Into Darkness
Released	Jun 2012
Advertising	Amazon

KLVX Timeline
(Variant of the Kelvin Timeline, split from 2233)

Stardate 2255: 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 terrorist attacks rock 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 interstellar 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?

Book Credits

Written by
Alan Gratz

Based Upon Star Trek Created by
Gene Roddenberry

Cover Illustrated by
Craig M. Staggs

Cover Design by
Nicholas Sciacca

Related Data

Astrometrics	40 Eridani system; Africa; Alpha Centauri system; Chi Herculis system; Denobula; Denobula Sector; Eagle Nebula; Earth; Frankfurt; Gavaria Sector; Germany; Grazer homeworld; Hollywood; Jupiter Station; McKinley Station; Mississippi; Mizar; Mizar Sector; New Orleans; P'Jem; Romulus; Rura Penthe; San Francisco; Sector 001; Shibuya; Sol system; Tellar Prime; Theta Cygni system; Theta Draconis system; Tzenketh; Tzenkethi Sector; Varkolak Prime; Vega Colony; Vega V; Voroth Sea; Vulcan; Zakdorn (Planet)
Chronology	KLVX Timeline: 2255; Year of the Rat
Culture	Andorian language; Assassination Game; bocce; Brazilians; Chinese; Dead Week; divorce; dom-jot; fencing; frisbee; Germans; God; Japanese; juggling; music; Parrises Squares; Russians; soccer; space boomers; Tellarite language; tri-dimensional chess; ushaan-tor; Varkolak language; Velocity; Vulcan lute
Education	doctorate; high school; nurse; physician; Starfleet Academy
Food	alcohol; beer; borscht; caffeine; Chateau Picard; chicken; chili; Chinese food; coffee; dim sum; duck; dumplings; fortune cookies; kung pao vegetables; liver; minestrone; potatoes; ramen; Romulan ale; Saurian brandy; soup; Warp Core Breach; wine
People	Archer; Jonathan Archer; Areia; Tom Arnet; Richard Barnett; Beatriz; Bom; Braxim; Bunch; Cameron; Chang; Pavel Chekov; Zefram Cochrane; Daagen; Entarra; David Farragut; Pellan Fel; Jake Finnegan; Forlax; Freeman; Yuri Gagarin; Gaila; GarrRka; John Gill; Gren; Huer; Ard Jarikar; James T. Kirk; Lartal; Alex Leigh; Leslie; Littlejohn; Nadja Luthor; Martinez; Jocelyn McCoy; Leonard McCoy; Mitchell; Morrow; Naan; Nguyen; Mrs. Penelope; Phozic; Christopher Pike; Prax; Rhinehart; Rixtar; Shimada; Thy'lek Shran; Spock; Hikaru Sulu; Viktor Tikhonov; Nyota Uhura; Usarn; Valerie; Amy Westin; Cindy Wojcik; Woolart
Politics	assassination; Battle of Vega V; Breen Confederacy; coup; Federation President; Klingon Empire; police; Romulan Star Empire; Starfleet; Starfleet Corps of Engineers; Starfleet Ranks; terrorism; United Federation of Planets; Varkolak Armada; Varkolak Assembly; Varkolak Ranks; war
Science & Technology	anesthezine; antimatter; Argos telescope; asexual reproduction; biobed; boridium; bridge simulator; chronometer; cogenitors; communicator; computer; cortalin; DNA; docking clamps; duranium; escape pods; explosives; gravitons; hermaphrodites; hologram; holonovel; holophotography; Hruffa Bison plague; hypospray; Jefferies tubes; kemocite; kilogram; kilometer; knife; meter; microscope; ODN; PADD; phasers; photon torpedo; plasma coolant; sensors; shampoo; shields; sonic shower; spork; telepathy; telescope; temporal mechanics; thrusters; titanium; transporter; triage; tricorder; turbolift; ushaan-tor; vaccine; Varkolak phaser; Varkolak sniffer; viewscreen; virus; warp drive; warp nacelle; water pistol; xenobiology
Ships & Vehicles	Class F Shuttle; Constitution class; Shuttlecraft Davy Crockett; U.S.S. Eagle; U.S.S. Excalibur; hovercars; Shuttlecraft Indomitable; U.S.S. Intrepid; U.S.S. Lexington; U.S.S. Nautilus; U.S.S. Potemkin; U.S.S. Prester John; shuttlecraft; U.S.S. Surprise; U.S.S. Tennessee; Txakarra-Hartz; U.S.S. Yorktown
Xenology	Andorians; apple blossoms; Bajorans; Bolians; Bolian sponge worms; Breen; Caitians; chickens; cotton; Deltans; Denebian slime devils; Denobulans; dogs; ducks; Efrosians; elephants; fleas; Grazerites; Hruffa Bison; Humans; Ilyrians; J'naii; Klingons; Ktarians; lavender; marigolds; Mizarians; Orions; Pakleds; pandas; pigeons; rats; Regulan blood worms; rhinoceroses; Rigelians; Romulans; Saurians; sehlats; squirrels; Tarkanian pigs; Tarsians; Tellarites; Tholians; tigers; Trill; turtles; Varkolak; Vissians; Vulcans; wolves; Xanno; Xindi; Zakdorn
Miscellaneous	bathroom; corbomite; The Delta Quadrant; Federation credits; Federation News Service; Graviton Society; homicide; Interspecies Medical Summit; karate; lipstick; Madame Tussauds; money; picnic; Priority One call; red alert; Starfleet Uniforms; supervillain; Suus Mahna; The Warp Core; werewolves; xenophobia