Star Trek TOS - Star Trek: The Price of the Phoenix

The transporter shimmered. The two Enterprise security men materialized, took a firmer grip on the anti-grav lifts, and stepped carefully off the platform with the stretcher that bore the body of Captain James T Kirk. Spock followed them through the door, his eyes not moving from the stretcher. McCoy clung to his arm, not sure whether he was giving support or getting it. He could feel the Vulcan's strength. But was it fully sane? Captain Kirk is dead—long live Captain Kirk! Spock, Doctor McCoy and the other crewmen of the starship Enterprise experience a stunning double shock. The first, painful blow is Captain Kirk's tragic death. Then, Captain Kirk's miraculous rebirth reveals the most awesome force the Enterprise has ever encountered. Spock is forced into a desperate gamble for Kirk's Human soul against Omne—the ultrahuman emperor of life beyond life, and death beyond Hell. A nerve-shattering voyage into unknown terror with the starship Enterprise. Spock must play a dangerous game when an outside factor threatens the sovereignty of the Federation and the life of Captain James T. Kirk--Novelist.