From History's Shadow

From History's Shadow is a Pocket TOS novel written by Dayton Ward. Published by Pocket Books, it was first released in .
== Summary ==
;From the book jacket
:2268: Following their encounter with the mysterious Gary Seven in the twentieth century, the crew of the is startled by two intruders who have transported through space and time from Earth circa 1968. Incredibly, one of the infiltrators is a Vulcan, who asserts that he's lived among Earth's population for over a decade. The other represents a little-known race, and reveals to Captain James T. Kirk that she has spent that last twenty years working to bring about Humanity’s destruction. It is then that Gary Seven’s young protégé, Roberta Lincoln, arrives seeking Kirk's help…
:1947: In the wake of the infamous "Roswell Incident" involving a crashed alien craft and beings from another world, Captain James Wainwright finds himself recruited as one of the first members of Majestic 12, a secret organization with two goals: Collect evidence of extraterrestrial activity on Earth, and develop strategies to combat alien invaders. And it is this very mission that will consume Wainwright's life for the next two decades, driven by the knowledge that the danger is as real as the aliens living among us…
== Background information ==
*Author Ward's original concept for the novel featured the characters of . Particularly this would have tied into . 
*In the epilogue, Wainwright watches the news report about the flying through the sky over Los Angeles on 6 November 1996. This was the same day that aired.
== Characters ==
*James T. Kirk
*Spock
*Leonard McCoy
*Montgomery Scott
*Nyota Uhura
*Hikaru Sulu
*Pavel Chekov
*James Wainwright
*Jeff
*Mestral
*Gary Seven
*Roberta Lincoln
*Isis
*John Christopher
*Barry Giotto
*Neil Armstrong
== External link ==
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