The crew of the Enterprise harbors a powerful telepath who is wanted dead by his people, and must prevent a genocide before they come under the power of the telepath. When the crew of the Starship Enterprise save the life of Berlis, a member of a telepathic species known as the Isitri, Spock begins behaving erratically under the influence of this man whose telepathic abilities are so strong that his own people want him dead. Original. A new classic story starring Kirk, Spock, and the crew of the Enterprise, coinciding with the premiere of the new Star Trek movie from director J.J. Abrams. While exploring the unmapped frontier, the Starship Enterprise responds to a distress call from an unknown ship. Captain James T. Kirk turns first contact into a threat of interstellar warby saving the life of a man his own people abandoned. Berlis, colony leader of a telepathic race calling themselves the Isitri, claims not to know why those from his homeworld want him dead. Now Kirk must either find a way to wrench billions from the grip of one man, or be responsible for the destruction of two planets.
