Home Is the Hunter
Trapped in the past, three of the Enterprise crew face certain death.

Home Is the Hunter is a Pocket TOS novel – #52 in the numbered series – written by Dana Kramer-Rolls. Published by Pocket Books, it was first released in .

Summary 
From the book jacket
A dispute over a planet and its primitive people leads Captain Kirk and a Klingon Commander to pit their ships against each other in battle. But the fight is stopped by a mysterious and powerful alien being named Weyland, who decides to punish three  crewmembers with their own history. He places Sulu in feudal Japan during the period's most important and bloody power struggle, Scotty in 18th century Scotland on the eve of revolt, and Chekov in WWII Russia.

Now, the three time travelers must face overwhelming dangers as they are pulled by conflicting forces: their allegiance to their homelands, their duty to the Federation they serve, and the demands of history.

Memorable quotes 
"Take us to your leader."
"We do not have a leader. We have a god."
"A god?"
"Yes. The immortal Weyland."
"I see. And is the immortal Weyland, um… available?"
 - James T. Kirk and a Cragon V native

"What… are you?"
"In charge."
 - James T. Kirk and Weyland

Background information 
 This is the only Star Trek novel written by Dana Kramer-Rolls.

Characters 
 James T. Kirk
 Spock
 Leonard McCoy
 Montgomery Scott
 Hikaru Sulu
 Pavel Chekov
 Nyota Uhura
 Garrovick
 Joseph Stalin

References 
Organia Kirk internally compares Cragon V to Organia: two peaceful, pastoral worlds with seemingly primitive inhabitants that become grounds for conflict between the Federation and the Klingon Empire.
 and  When Cragon V's inhabitants state that they are ruled by "a god," Montgomery Scott inwardly prays, "Lord, let it not be a supercomputer," recalling the crew's past encounters with Vaal and Landru.
Ayelborne When the Enterprise is suddenly frozen by an unseen force, Kirk half-expects to see the Organian leader appear on the bridge.
Q Continuum Weyland states that he is a former member of an unnamed "continuum of beings" and displays immortality and near-omnipotence similar to Q's.

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