The Three-Minute Universe

The Galaxy is on fire. And only the Enterprise can save it.
The Three-Minute Universe is a Pocket TOS novel – #41 in the numbered series – written by Barbara Paul. Published by Pocket Books, it was first released in .
== Summary ==
;From the book jacket
:The Sackers. In all Captain James T. Kirk's travels, he has never found a race more universally shunned and abhorred. Their mere appearance caused most Federation members to become violently ill.
:Now the Sackers have performed a deed whose brutality matches their horrifying exterior. They have stolen a revolutionary new scientific device – murdering an entire race in the process – and used it to create a rip in the fabric of space, a hole through which another universe is rapidly leaking. Unless Captain Kirk and the crew of the can find a way to stop the new universe's expansion, it will consume – and utterly destroy – our own.
== Background information ==
* This is the only Star Trek novel written by Barbara Paul.
* The title refers to the state of a universe that is only three minutes old.
== Characters ==
;James T. Kirk : Captain.
;Spock
;Uhura
;Montgomery Scott
;Pavel Chekov
;Berengaria : Lieutenant.
== External links ==
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