Crisis on Centaurus
Enterprise to the rescue! Kirk must save both a planet and McCoy's daughter!

Crisis on Centaurus is a Pocket TOS novel – #28 in the numbered series – written by Brad Ferguson. Published by Pocket Books, it was first released in .

Summary 
From the book jacket
Massive computer malfunctions are plaguing the  when Kirk suddenly receives a shocking message from Starfleet Command: Centaurus has been bombed and annihilated; thousands are dead. Give whatever help you can. Centaurus is a beautiful, peaceful planet, home to many Humans – including McCoy's daughter Joanna.

The crew risks beaming down to investigate. But Kirk is thrown into a deadly struggle between violent enemy terrorists and vengeful Centaurians. Now Lt. Uhura, left alone in command, must jeopardize the crippled Enterprise to save Centaurus, Kirk – and Joanna McCoy!.

Background information 
 This is the first Star Trek novel by Brad Ferguson.
 The Science Fiction Book Club released a special edition of the novel in hardback in .
 This novel was collected in the Star Trek: The Twentieth-Anniversary Collection II boxed set.
 Though the stardate implies the events take place after , the ranks and cover image suggest a date during the five-year mission. Furthermore Uhura taking command of the Enterprise places this novel before  (2269), but at least two years after  (2267) as per references to Samuel Cogley.

Characters

Main 
 James T. Kirk  Captain
 Spock
 Leonard McCoy
 Montgomery Scott
 Uhura
 Hikaru Sulu

Other 
 Joanna McCoy  Nurse
 MacPherson  Chief
 Peter Siderakis  Navigator
 Saul Weinstein

References 
Barnard  Hospital ship.
Centaurus  Fourth planet in the Alpha Centauri system.
USS Conrad  Scout ship.
  in drydock.
USS Cook County  small impulse-only cargo craft.
Edith Cavell  Red Cross rescue ship – British Confederacy – destroyed.
 Named for famous British World War I nurse and humanitarian.
USS Gagarin : Scout class – former posting of Montgomery Scott – decommissioned.
  former posting of James T. Kirk.

New Athens capital city of Centaurus (destroyed).Sakharov : Red Cross rescue ship – Eurasian Union – destroyed.Named for the Nobel Prize winning physicist Andrei Sakharov. A shuttlecraft Sakharov was often seen on TNG.
Semmelweiss  Hospital ship.
Thomas Dooley  Red Cross rescue ship – USA – destroyed.
Tutu  Hospital ship.

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