[Star Trek: The Original Series] The Lost Years -- 'After the end of the EnterpriseTM's five-year mission, Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, and Dr. McCoy struggle to establish new lives apart from each other and the starship. The newly-promoted Admiral Kirk is placed in charge of a specially-created Starfleet division and attempts to defuse a critical hostage situation; Mr. Spock, who, in the midst of a teaching assignment on Vulcan, finds the one thing he least expected; and Dr. McCoy, whose unerring instinct for trouble lands him smack in the middle of an incident that could trigger an interstellar bloodbath'.' |...| [From Publishers Weekly] In a story line constructed to fill in the gaps between the end of the original 1960s Star Trek TV series and the beginning of the feature-length movie series. The Enterprise docks on Earth, ending its five-year mission, and Kirk, Spock and McCoy go their separate ways until a tense hostage situation reunites them. |...| [From Memory Alpha: the Star Trek Wiki]: The Lost Years saga began as a single novel by J.M. Dillard and grew into a four-book series. It tells the stories of the TOS characters in the years between when the Original Series ended and the movies began -- 'The Lost Years', 'A Flag Full of Stars', 'Traitor Winds' and 'Recovery'. [Background Information] The first book in the Lost Years series, which fills in the gap between the end of the five year mission and the events of Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979).'. Admiral Nogura's promotion of Kirk in the novel follows in the aftermath of the events in the novel Dreadnought! and the scandal surrounding the disgraced Admiral Rittenhouse...