[Starfleet Academy - Abramsverse 04] • Star Trek · Starfleet Academy - Abramsverse - 04 - the Assassination Game

The rules are simple: draw a target. Track him down and "kill" him with a spork. Take your victim's target for your own. Oh, and make sure the player with your name doesn't get to you first. The game ends when only one player remains.

James T. Kirk is playing for fun. Leonard "Bones" McCoy is playing to get close to a girl. But when a series of explosives rocks the usually placid Starfleet Academy campus, it becomes clear that somebody is playing the Assassination Game for real.

Is it one of the visiting Varkolak, a ferocious species with whom the Federation has a shaky relation ship? They're supposedly on Earth to attend an intragalactic medical conference, but Kirk is pretty sure they have other plans. Or could it be a member of the Graviton Society? Cadets Uhura and Sulu have been invited to join the supersecret group at the Academy that works to eliminate threats to the Federation—and breaks whatever rules necessary along the way.

As Uhura, Sulu and Commander Spock infiltrate the society, Kirk and Bones attempt to uncover who's behind the explosions. But just as in the Assassination game, they can never be sure who they can trust—and who's out to get them.