An epic fresh Star Trek saga by NY Times bestselling writer Greg Cox set during the initial Five-Year Mission!

The final frontier erupts into chaos as vast quantities of a rare power source are found out under the surface of Baldur-3, a remote planet beyond the outer fringes of Federation space. Right now an old-fashioned “platinum rush” is certainly underway being a flood of would-be prospectors, from countless worlds and types, races toward the earth to stake their claim. The galactic stampede threatens the balance of neighboring planets and space stations, as popular strife and sabotage and all-around pandemonium create a desperate dependence on Starfleet assistance. Captain Adam T. Kirk as well as the crew from the Starship Enterprise are dispatched to deal with the escalating crisis…which lies on the other side of a famously perilous area of space known as the Antares Maelstrom.