Republic (novel)

A friendship that ends with tragedy begins with adventure!
Republic is a Pocket TOS novel – #85 in the numbered series, and the first in the My Brother's Keeper trilogy – written by Michael Jan Friedman. Published by Pocket Books, it was first released in .
== Summary ==
;From the book jacket:
:Revealed at last, the full story of Jim Kirk's lost friend, the man who helped him become the captain we know…
:Stardate 1312.4. – A young Captain Kirk, early in his legendary career, faces the crisis of his life when he must kill his best friend in order to save the . Later, alone in his quarters, be cannot help recalling how he first met Gary Mitchell:
:At Starfleet Academy, Gary is reckless and fun-loving while Kirk is driven, ambitious, but awkward around other people – especially women. Their friendship begins with a fistfight. Then their routine training mission on the is diverted to a planet where centuries of bloody interplanetary conflict are about to end in a ceremony of reconciliation. Assigned to help with security on the planet's surface, Kirk and Gary quickly find themselves in the middle of a life-and-death struggle against terrorists determined to disrupt the ceremony.
:With the future of two planets at stake, Kirk and Gary must find a way to work together before a mission of life and peace becomes one of death and despair.
== Background information ==
* An extract from this novel appeared in Star Trek Monthly issue 48.
== Characters ==
;James T. Kirk
;Gary Mitchell
== References ==
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== External link ==
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Category:Novels