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.
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;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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