Friday, May 11, 2012

Forgotten History


Time travel has long been a favorite subject of Star Trek beginning with the first televised series with Captain Kirk and crew.  However, Captain Archer and the crew of the first Enterprise had the first time travel excursions, most notably the Temporal Wars.

Time travel wasn't seriously considered by the Federation as a factor until Captain Kirk and Mister Spock traveled to Earth's past via the Guardian Of Forever.  It then became abundantly clear that time travel could both be considered and boon to the Federation or the device of its destruction.  Measures were put in place to control travel in time and thus minimize the threat to humanity, the Federation and the universe.

Have you ever wondered how it all started?  In author Christopher L. Bennett's new Star Trek book from Pocket Books titled Forgotten History you'll learn how the  Department Of Temporal Investigations came about due in no small part to Captain Kirk and his crew.

When a timeship suddenly appears carrying the markings of Kirk's Enterprise the Federation is thrown into a quandary.  How could such a ship exist and why does its quantum signature match the DTI's own?

It's up to DTI agents Lucsly and Dulmur to unravel the mystery as to how the timecraft is directly tied into the DTI's own past and Kirk's Enterprise.

There's plenty of time travel twists and turns as the past shapes the future and the present is predicated on the past.