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To fill the gap between seasons 2 and 3 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Simon & Schuster are releasing a new novel, written, appropriately, by Una McCormack.

Asylum will be released in September this year.

When Una Chin-Riley and Christopher Pike meet at Starfleet Academy after one of his lectures, they immediately become friends. A stellar student, Una is the “poster girl” of her class, and Pike is determined to become a Starfleet captain with his own ship, rhetorically assembling his dream crew. As their friendship evolves, Pike also suspects Una is involved with the Euxhana, a Chionian cultural minority, who are seeking asylum in Federation space, leading to more questions than answers.

Twenty-five years later, Una and Pike are working together on the USS Enterprise to settle a Chionian trade agreement when a pro-Euxhana saboteur launches a terrorist attack. When the suspect is taken into custody for interrogation and is discovered to have a history with Una, her past associations resurface, threatening to expose a secret she’s been harboring all these years…

Other Star Trek books out later this year include a novelisation of No Man’s Land, the Star Trek: Picard audio and Open a Channel: A Woman’s Trek, by Nana Visitor, which explores how the series has portrayed and influenced women.