To date, there have been four smash Star Trek original series hardcovers: Spock's World, The Lost Years, Prime Directive, and Probe; and two Star Trek: The Next Generation hardcovers: Reunion and Imzadi. Each of these much-anticipated books has been a huge New York Times bestseller, providing exciting, epic stories that have thrilled readers with the best in science fiction. Now, Pocket Books is proud to present Best Destiny: the incredible story of James Kirk as a teenager on his first adventure in space with his father George Samuel Kirk -- an adventure which gives young James his first look at a Starship called the U.S.S. Enterprise.

In Best Destiny, noted Star Trek author Diane Carey mixes the past and the present of Star Trek in an epic-length story of unparalleled danger and momentous self-discovery -- a story that gives a first-ever look at the personal history of the man who would later command the Starship Enterprise: James T. Kirk.

As James T. Kirk prepares to retire from a long and illustrious Starfleet career, events in a distant part of the Federation draw him back to a part of the galaxy he had last visited as a young man -- a mysterious world called Faramond whose name takes Kirk on a journey back to his youth.

At sixteen, Kirk is troubled, estranged from his father, and has a bleak future. However, a trip into space with Kirk's father George and Starfleet legend Captain Robert April changes James Kirk's life forever, when a simple voyage becomes a deadly trap. Soon Kirk and his father find themselves fighting for their lives against a vicious and powerful enemy.

Before the voyage ends, father and son will face life and death together, and James T. Kirk will get a glimpse of the future and his own Best Destiny...