''Timetrap'' () is an original-series ''Star Trek'' novel by

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, published by

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in 1988. For the week of June 12, 1988, ''Timetrap'' was the fifth-best-selling paperback book on ''The New York Times'' Best Seller list. The novel originally sold for . ''Timetrap'' is Pocket's 40th numbered novel from the retronymed ''Star Trek: The Original Series''.

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released an

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version in September 2000. The plot of the novel concerns

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and

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s to believe that he's time-traveled 100 years into his future. Ellen Cheeseman-Meyer, writing for '' Tor.com'', described the story as dealing with the philosophy of perception and "

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s. Lots and lots of drugs."

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