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The High Country is a Gallery SNW novel – the first novel in the series – written by John Jackson Miller. Published by Gallery Books, it was released on 21 February 2023, after the first season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds aired.
Summary[]
- When an experimental shuttlecraft fails, Captain Christopher Pike suspects a mechanical malfunction – only to discover the very principles on which Starfleet bases its technology have simply stopped functioning. He and his crewmates are forced to abandon ship in a dangerous maneuver that scatters their party across the strangest new world they've ever encountered.
- First Officer Una finds herself fighting to survive an untamed wilderness where dangers lurk at every turn. Young Cadet Nyota Uhura struggles in a volcanic wasteland where things are not as they seem. Science Officer Spock is missing altogether. And Pike gets the chance to fulfill a childhood dream: to live the life of a cowboy in a world where the tools of the 23rd century are of no use.
- Yet even in the saddle, Pike is still very much a starship captain, with all the responsibilities that entails. Setting out to find his crewmates, he encounters a surprising face from his past – and discovers that one people's utopia might be someone else's purgatory. He must lead an exodus – or risk a calamity of galactic proportions that even Starship Enterprise is powerless to stop...
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Background information[]
- The novel title and synopsis were revealed at the Mission Chicago convention on 8 April 2022.
- It was announced on 27 April 2022 that The High Country was pushed back to from its original release date of 8 November 2022 to 21 February 2023.
Characters[]
- Christopher Pike
- Spock
- Una Chin-Riley
- Nyota Uhura
- La'an Noonien-Singh
- Joseph M'Benga
- Erica Ortegas
- George Samuel Kirk
External link[]
- The High Country at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
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