Star Trek - Abridged - Abridged
The Return
Star Trek
- By: William Shatner
- Narrated by: William Shatner
- Length: 3 hours 4 minutes
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Star Trek Series
Emissary - Abridged - Abridged
By: J.M. Dillard
Narrated by: Nana Visitor
Length: 2 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Commander Benjamin Sisko is just recovering from the death of his wife when he is assigned command over the former Cardassian, but new Federation space station, Deep Space NineTM. This space station is strategically located not only because of its orbit about Bajor, but also because of its proximity to the only known stable wormhole in the... Read more »
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Star Trek: Discovery: Desperate Hours
By: David Mack
Narrated by: Susan Eisenberg
Length: 9 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
An all-original novel based upon the explosive new series on CBS All Access.
Aboard the Starship Shenzhou, Lieutenant Michael Burnham, a human woman raised and educated among Vulcans, is promoted to acting first officer. But if she wants to keep the job, she must prove to Captain Philippa Georgiou that she deserves to have it.
She gets her chance... Read more »
Prey: Book One: Hell's Heart
By: John Jackson Miller
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Length: 12 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Continuing the milestone 50th anniversary celebration of Star Trek—an epic new trilogy that stretches from the events of The Original Series movie The Search for Spock to The Next Generation!
When Klingon commander Kruge died in combat against James T. Kirk on the Genesis planet back in 2285, he left behind a powerful house in disarray—and a... Read more »
Prey: Book Two: The Jackal's Trick
By: John Jackson Miller
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Length: 11 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Continuing the milestone 50th anniversary celebration of Star Trek—an epic new trilogy that stretches from the events of The Original Series movie The Search for Spock to The Next Generation!
The Klingon-Federation alliance is in peril as never before. Lord Korgh has seized control of the House of Kruge, executing a plot one hundred years in the... Read more »
Star Trek: Picard: The Dark Veil
By: James Swallow
Length: 12 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
A thrilling untold adventure based on the acclaimed Star Trek: Picard TV series!
The Alpha Quadrant is mired in crisis.
Within the United Federation of Planets, a terrorist strike on the shipyards of Mars has led to the shutdown of all relief efforts for millions of Romulans facing certain doom from an impending supernova. But when the USS Titan... Read more »
Star Trek: Discovery: Drastic Measures
By: Dayton Ward
Length: 11 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
An original novel based upon the explosive new Star Trek TV series on CBS All Access!
It is 2246, ten years prior to the Battle at the Binary Stars, and an aggressive contagion is ravaging the food supplies of the remote Federation colony Tarsus IV and the eight thousand people who call it home. Distress signals have been sent, but any meaningful... Read more »
Dark Victory - Abridged - Abridged
By: William Shatner
Narrated by: William Shatner
Length: 3 hours 1 minutes
Abridged: Yes
For three full decades, on television and in film, actor William Shatner has portrayed one of the legendary heroes of science fiction: James Tiberius Kirk, captain of the Starship Enterprise. Although Kirk was believed to have perished at the conclusion of Star Trek® Generations, his amazing literary resurrection led to an acclaimed trilogy of... Read more »
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Epiphany
By: Josepha Sherman & Susan Shwartz
Narrated by: Richard Poe
Length: 11 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times best-selling authors Josepha Sherman and Susan Shwartz are fan-favorite chroniclers of Star Trek adventures. Exodus and Exiles, the first two parts of the Vulcan's Soul Trilogy, introduced a brewing conflict that threatens the galaxy. In this final chapter, the secret history of the Romulans is revealed. And to stave off an... Read more »
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Star Trek: Picard: Rogue Elements
By: John Jackson Miller
Length: 15 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
A thrilling untold adventure based on the acclaimed Star Trek: Picard TV series!
Starfleet was everything for Cristóbal Rios—until one horrible, inexplicable day when it all went wrong. Aimless and adrift, he grasps at a chance for a future as an independent freighter captain in an area betrayed by the Federation, the border region with the... Read more »
Star Trek: Discovery: Fear Itself
By: James Swallow
Length: 10 hours 1 minutes
Abridged: No
An original novel based upon the explosive new Star Trek TV series on CBS All Access.
Lieutenant Saru is a Kelpien, a member of a prey species born on a world overrun by monstrous predators…and a being who very intimately understands the nature of fear. Challenged on all sides, he is determined to surpass his origins and succeed as a Starfleet... Read more »
Star Trek: Discovery: Fear Itself
By: James Swallow
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Length: 10 hours 1 minutes
Abridged: No
An original novel based upon the explosive new Star Trek TV series on CBS All Access.
Lieutenant Saru is a Kelpien, a member of a prey species born on a world overrun by monstrous predators…and a being who very intimately understands the nature of fear. Challenged on all sides, he is determined to surpass his origins and succeed as a Starfleet... Read more »
Prey: Book Three: The Hall of Heroes
By: John Jackson Miller
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Length: 11 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Continuing the milestone 50th anniversary celebration of Star Trek—an epic new trilogy that stretches from the events of The Original Series movie The Search for Spock to The Next Generation!
The Klingon Empire stands on the precipice. In the wake of violence from the cult known as the Unsung, paranoia threatens to break Chancellor Martok’s... Read more »
Star Trek: Discovery: The Way to the Stars
By: Una McCormack
Length: 8 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
An original novel based on the explosive new TV series Star Trek: Discovery!
Despite being an inexperienced Starfleet cadet, Sylvia Tilly became essential to the USS Discovery finding its way back home from the Mirror Universe. But how did she find that courage? From where did she get that steel? Who nurtured that spark of brilliance? The Way to... Read more »
Star Trek: Discovery: The Way to the Stars
By: Una McCormack
Length: 8 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
An original novel based on the explosive new TV series Star Trek: Discovery!
Despite being an inexperienced Starfleet cadet, Sylvia Tilly became essential to the USS Discovery finding its way back home from the Mirror Universe. But how did she find that courage? From where did she get that steel? Who nurtured that spark of brilliance? The Way to... Read more »
Spectre - Abridged - Abridged
By: William Shatner
Narrated by: William Shatner
Length: 2 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: Yes
William Shatner has once again brought his unique blend of talents as actor, writer, director, and producer to continue the saga of Jim Kirk's remarkable second life, as an insidious menace from his past threatens a new generation of heroes...
Retired and in a happy relationship, Kirk believes his adventuring days are over. But as he returns to... Read more »
Fallen Heroes - Abridged - Abridged
By: Dafydd ab Hugh
Narrated by: Rene Auberjonois
Length: 2 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: Yes
When a troop of alien warriors demands the return of an imprisoned comrade -- a prisoner no one on Deep Space NineTM knows anything about -- Commander Benjamin Sisko has a deadly fight on his hands. Under sudden attack from the heavily armed warriors, Sisko and his crew struggle desperately to repel the invaders and save the lives of everyone on... Read more »
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Star Trek: Discovery: The Enterprise War
By: John Jackson Miller
Length: 12 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
An all-new novel based upon the explosive Star Trek TV series!
A shattered ship, a divided crew—trapped in the infernal nightmare of conflict!
Hearing of the outbreak of hostilities between the United Federation of Planets and the Klingon Empire, Captain Christopher Pike attempts to bring the USS Enterprise home to join in the fight. But in the... Read more »
Star Trek: Insurrection - Abridged - Abridged
By: J.M. Dillard
Narrated by: Boyd Gaines
Length: 3 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Star Trek: The Next Generation® is the most popular, longest-running series in science fiction history. Now, after the spectacular worldwide success of Star Trek: First Contact® Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Starship Enterprise return to the big screen in a thrilling new adventure that captures all the fun and excitement of Star... Read more »
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Web of the Romulans - Abridged - Abridged
By: M.S. Murdock
Narrated by: George Takei & Leonard Nimoy
Length: 1 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Ravaged by a killer virus, the Romulans enter Canara, where the only antidote can be found. Desperate, they incite a victorious U.S.S. EnterpriseTM attack on one of their vessels, but Kirk discoves their ruse.
Meanwhile the central computer has fallen in love with him, severely crippling the Starship EnterpriseTM. Somehow Kirk must overcome the... Read more »
Yesterday's Son - Abridged - Abridged
By: A.C. Crispin
Narrated by: Leonard Nimoy
Length: 1 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The Romulans attack the planet Gateway, where Federation scientists are studying the Guardian of Forever -- the mysterious portal to the past.
The Starship Enterprise must protect the Guardian -- or destroy it. But Spock has already used the portal to journey to the past. On the planet Sarpedion, 5,000 years ago, Spock knew a beautiful,... Read more »
Gulliver's Fugitives - Abridged - Abridged
By: Keith Sharee
Narrated by: Jonathan Frakes
Length: 1 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: Yes
While searching for the U.S.S. Huxley, missing for more than 10 years, the EnterpriseTM stumbles across a forgotten colony of humans on a planet called Rampart, where fiction and works of the imagination of any kind are considered a heinous crime. A survey team beams aboard the ship to search for "contraband," and the crew are drawn immediately... Read more »
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Time For Yesterday - Abridged - Abridged
By: A.C. Crispin
Narrated by: James Doohan & Leonard Nimoy
Length: 1 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Time in the galaxy has stopped running in its normal course. That can mean only one thing -- the Guardian of Forever is malfunctioning. To save the universe, Starfleet Command reunites three of its most legendary figures -- Admiral James T. Kirk, Spock of Vulcan, and Dr. Leonard McCoy -- and sends them on a desperate mission to contact the... Read more »
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Windows on a Lost World - Abridged - Abridged
By: V.E. Mitchell
Narrated by: Walter Koenig
Length: 2 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Windows On A Lost World
While Captain Kirk and a landing party from the Starship Enterprise explore the ruins of an ancient civilization on the uninhabited planet Careta IV, they discover strange devices that appear to be windows.But the mysterious windows prove to be more than they seem when Kirk, Chekov, and two security guards enter them... Read more »
To Lose the Earth
By: Kirsten Beyer
Length: 11 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
The long-awaited follow-up to Voyager: Architects of Infinity from the New York Times bestselling author and cocreator of Star Trek: Picard!
As the crew of the Full Circle fleet works to determine the fate of their lost ship, the Galen, a struggle for survival begins at the far edge of the galaxy. New revelations about Species 001, the race that... Read more »
The Antares Maelstrom
By: Greg Cox
Length: 11 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
An epic new Star Trek saga by New York Times bestselling author Greg Cox set during the original Five-Year Mission!
The final frontier erupts into chaos as vast quantities of a rare energy source are discovered beneath the surface of Baldur-3, a remote planet beyond the outer fringes of Federation space. Now an old-fashioned “gold rush” is... Read more »
The Face of the Unknown
By: Christopher L. Bennett
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Length: 10 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Continuing the milestone 50th anniversary celebration of Star Trek—a brand-new novel of The Original Series featuring James T. Kirk, Spock, and the crew of the USS Enterprise!
Investigating a series of violent raids by a mysterious predatory species, Captain James T. Kirk discovers that these events share a startling connection with the First... Read more »
The Captain's Oath
By: Christopher L. Bennett
Length: 11 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
An all-new Star Trek adventure set during The Original Series era and featuring James T. Kirk!
The saga of James T. Kirk’s historic command of the U.S.S. Enterprise is known throughout the galaxy. But one part of the legend has barely been touched upon until now: the story of Kirk’s first starship command and the remarkable achievements by which... Read more »
Collateral Damage
By: David Mack
Length: 12 hours 1 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times bestselling author of Star Trek: Discovery: Desperate Hours comes an original, thrilling novel set in the universe of Star Trek: The Next Generation!
The past returns to haunt Captain Jean-Luc Picard—a crime he thought long buried has been exposed, and he must return to Earth to answer for his role in a conspiracy that... Read more »
Available Light
By: Dayton Ward
Length: 11 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
The past comes back to haunt Captain Jean-Luc Picard in this brand new thriller set in the universe of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Section 31, the covert organization which has operated without accountability in the shadows for more than two centuries, has been exposed. Throughout the Federation, the rogue group’s agents and leaders are being... Read more »
Star Trek: Discovery: Dead Endless
By: Dave Galanter
Length: 10 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
A novel based upon the explosive Star Trek TV series!
The U.S.S. Discovery’s specialty is using its spore-based hub drive to jump great distances faster than any warp-faring vessel in Starfleet. To do this, Lieutenant Paul Stamets navigates the ship through the recently revealed mycelial network, a subspace domain Discovery can briefly transit... Read more »
Headlong Flight
By: Dayton Ward
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Length: 9 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
An exhilarating thriller from bestselling author Dayton Ward set in the universe of Star Trek: The Next Generation, following Captain Jean-Luc Picard and his crew as they explore the previously uncharted and dangerous Odyssean Pass.
Surveying a nebula as part of their continuing exploration of the previously uncharted “Odyssean Pass,” Captain... Read more »
Dark Mirror - Abridged - Abridged
By: Diane Duane
Length: 2 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: Yes
One hundred years ago, four crewmembers of the U.S.S EnterpriseTM crossed the dimensional barrier and found a mirror image of their own universe, populated by nightmare duplicates of their shipmates. Barely able to escape with their lives, they returned, thankful that the accident which had brought them there could not be duplicated, or so they... Read more »
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Contamination - Abridged - Abridged
By: Esther Friesner
Narrated by: Michael Dorn
Length: 1 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The U.S.S. EnterpriseTM is stunned when famed scientist Lynn Costa is murdered in one of the ship's science labs. She and her husband Emil were known as science's greatest ongoing collaboration and, together had received the Federation's highest honors for their achievements in scientific research.
Determined to see the culprit brought to... Read more »
Star Trek: Discovery: Die Standing
By: John Jackson Miller
Length: 12 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
An all-new novel based upon the explosive Star Trek TV series!
No one in the history of histories has lost more than Philippa Georgiou, ruler of the Terran Empire. Forced to take refuge in the Federation’s universe, she bides her time until Section 31, a rogue spy force within Starfleet, offers her a chance to work as their agent. She has no... Read more »
Legacies: Book #3: Purgatory's Key
By: Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Length: 11 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
The conclusion to the epic trilogy that stretches from the earliest voyages of the Starship Enterprise to Captain Kirk’s historic five-year-mission—and from one universe to another—just in time for the milestone 50th anniversary of Star Trek: The Original Series!
Eighteen years ago, the Starship Enterprise thwarted an alien invasion from another... Read more »
A Contest of Principles
By: Greg Cox
Length: 13 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
An epic new Star Trek saga by New York Times bestselling author Greg Cox set during the original five-year mission!
The planet Vok is holding its first free elections after years of oppressive military rule. Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the Starship Enterprise have been dispatched by Starfleet to serve as impartial observers, but... Read more »
The Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Genesis Wave Book 3 - Abridged - Abridged
By: John Vornholt
Narrated by: Tim Russ
Length: 3 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Sweeping across the Alpha Quadrant at a terrifying speed, a wave of Genesis energy has wiped out whole populations of entire planets, rearranging matter on a molecular level to create bizarre new landscapes and life-forms.
The U.S.S. Enterprise, commanded by Captain Jean-Luc Picard, managed to counter the threat, halting the wave in its tracks... Read more »
Star Trek: Sarek
By: A.C. Crispin
Length: 14 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Spock's mother, Amanda Grayson, is dying, and Spock returns to the planet Vulcan where he and Sarek enjoy a rare moment of rapprochement. But just as his wife's illness grows worse, duty calls Sarek away, once again sowing the seeds of conflict between father and son. Yet soon Sarek and Spock must put aside their differences and work together to... Read more »
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Legacies #2: Best Defense
By: David Mack
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Length: 9 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Just in time for the milestone 50th Anniversary of Star Trek: The Original Series, an epic new trilogy that stretches from the earliest voyages of the Starship Enterprise to Captain Kirk’s historic five-year-mission—and from one universe to another!
A debt of honor: One brave woman ventures alone into a parallel universe to save her old... Read more »
Ship of Line - Abridged - Abridged
By: Diane Carey
Narrated by: Kevin Conway
Length: 2 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The Starship Enterprise 1701-D has been destroyed, and Captain Jean-Luc Picard finds himself without a command. While waiting for his new ship, Captain Picard has gone with Lieutenant Worf on a delicate diplomatic mission to the Cardassian Empire.
As Picard conducts high-level negotiations for the return of Federation prisoners of war, the... Read more »
Star Trek: The Lost Years - Abridged - Abridged
By: J.M. Dillard
Narrated by: Leonard Nimoy
Length: 2 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: Yes
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... Read more »
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Enigma Tales
By: Una McCormack
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Length: 9 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Fall: The Crimson Shadow comes a compelling and suspenseful tale of politics and power set in the universe of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
Elim Garak has ascended to Castellan of the Cardassian Union...but despite his soaring popularity, the imminent publication of a report exposing his people's... Read more »
Star Trek: Picard: Second Self
By: Una McCormack
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
A thrilling untold adventure based on the acclaimed Star Trek: Picard TV series!
Following the explosive events seen in season one of Star Trek: Picard, Raffi Musiker finds herself torn between returning to her old life as a Starfleet Intelligence officer or something a little more tame—teaching at the Academy, perhaps. The decision is made for... Read more »
Reunion - Abridged - Abridged
By: Michael Jan Friedman
Length: 2 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Before he commanded the Starship Enterprise, Jean-Luc Picard was the captain of the deep space exploration vessel, the U.S.S. Stargazer, on an incredible twenty-two year voyage. Now Picard is reunited with his old crew for the first time in over a decade, on a mission to see his former first officer installed as ruler of the Daa'Vit Empire.
The... Read more »
The New Frontier - Abridged - Abridged
By: Peter David
Narrated by: Joe Morton
Length: 4 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Sector 221-G: For the whole of Federation history, this large
area of space has been controlled by the Thallonians, a cruel,
militaristic race of which little is knownexcept that they rule
the other races in their sector with vicious iron hand.
Now the Thallonian Empire has collapsed and the systems it once
ruled are in chaos. Old hatreds are... Read more »
Star Trek Movie Tie-In - Abridged - Abridged
By: Alan Dean Foster
Narrated by: Zachary Quinto
Length: 8 hours 1 minutes
Abridged: Yes
"Are you willing to settle for an ordinary life?or do you think you were meant for something better? something special?"
One grew up in the cornfields of Iowa, fighting for his independence,for a way out of a life that promised only indifference, aimlessness,and obscurity.
"You will forever be a child of two worlds, capable of choosing your own... Read more »
Legacies: Book 1: Captain to Captain
By: Greg Cox
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Length: 9 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
An epic new trilogy begins—a tie-in for the milestone fiftieth anniversary of Star Trek: The Original Series—that stretches from the earliest voyages of the Starship Enterprise to Captain Kirk’s historic five-year-mission…and from one universe to another!
Hidden aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise is a secret that has been passed from captain to... Read more »
Vulcan's Heart - Abridged - Abridged
By: Josepha Sherman & Susan Shwartz
Narrated by: Tim Russ
Length: 3 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: Yes
2329: Now a diplomat for the United Federation of Planets, Spock agrees to a bonding with Commander Saavik. More than a betrothal, less than a wedding, the sacred Vulcan rite is attended by both Spock's father, Sarek, and a nervous young Starfleet lieutenant named Jean-Luc Picard.
2344: Ambassador Spock receives a top-secret communication from... Read more »
Hearts and Minds
By: Dayton Ward
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Length: 11 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
An electrifying thriller from New York Times bestselling author Dayton Ward, set in the Star Trek: The Next Generation universe.
2031: United States Air Force fighter jets shoot down an unidentified spacecraft and take its crew into custody. Soon, it’s learned that the ship is one of several dispatched across space by an alien species, the... Read more »
Kahless - Abridged - Abridged
By: Michael Jan Friedman
Narrated by: Kevin Conway
Length: 2 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: Yes
For 1500 years, the Klingons have revered him as their first emperor, the legendary warrior who united their people and taught them the meaning of honor, but the truth of his incredible life has been shrouded in myth and fables... until now.
A clone of the original Kahless now reigns as emperor, but the discovery of an ancient scroll throws the... Read more »