''Home Is the Hunter'' is a ''

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'' novel written by Dana Kramer-Rolls.

Plot

Captain Kirk, commanding the USS ''Enterprise'', gets into a fight with a Klingon ship concerning arguments over a primitive planet and its inhabitants. A mysterious, powerful entity named 'Weyland' stops the fight and decides to punish three of the ''Enterprise'' crew with their own history.

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is sent to feudal Japan during a bloody power struggle. Scotty is sent to

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in the eighteenth century on the eve of revolt. Chekov is sent to his beloved homeland of

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during World War 2. All three eventually make it back home to their right time and place, Sulu even managing to leave a literal mark on history with a carved message on a durable rock.

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