[My Brother's Keeper 01] • ST TOS - 097 - Republic - Brother's Keeper 1

Revealed at last, the full story of Jim Kirk's lost friend, the man who helped him become the captain we know.... *Stardate 1312.4. -- A young Captain Kirk, early in his legendary career, faces the crisis of his life when he must kill his best friend in order to save the* Enterprise. *Later, alone in his quarters, be cannot help recalling how he first met Gary Mitchell:* At Starfleet Academy, Gary is reckless and fun-loving while Kirk is driven, ambitious, but awkward around other people -- especially women. Their friendship begins with a fistfight. Then their routine training mission on the U.S.S. *Republic* is diverted to a planet where centuries of bloody interplanetary conflict are about to end in a ceremony of reconciliation. Assigned to help with security on the planet's surface, Kirk and Gary quickly find themselves in the middle of a life-and-death struggle against terrorists determined to disrupt the ceremony. With the future of two planets at stake, Kirk and Gary must find a way to work together before a mission of life and peace becomes one of death and despair.