The Three-Minute Universe
The Galaxy is on fire. And only the Enterprise can save it.

The Three-Minute Universe is a Pocket TOS novel – #41 in the numbered series – written by Barbara Paul. Published by Pocket Books, it was first released in .

Summary 
From the book jacket
The Sackers. In all Captain James T. Kirk's travels, he has never found a race more universally shunned and abhorred. Their mere appearance caused most Federation members to become violently ill.

Now the Sackers have performed a deed whose brutality matches their horrifying exterior. They have stolen a revolutionary new scientific device – murdering an entire race in the process – and used it to create a rip in the fabric of space, a hole through which another universe is rapidly leaking. Unless Captain Kirk and the crew of the  can find a way to stop the new universe's expansion, it will consume – and utterly destroy – our own.

Background information 
 This is the only Star Trek novel written by Barbara Paul.
 The title refers to the state of a universe that is only three minutes old.

Characters 
James T. Kirk  Captain.
Spock
Uhura
Montgomery Scott
Pavel Chekov
Berengaria  Lieutenant.

External links 
 
 

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