The Rings of Tautee: Dean Wesley Smith, Kristine Kathryn Rusch

An entire solar system begins to disintegrate into cosmic rubble, and Captain Kirk suspects that rumors of a new Klingon superweapon are all too true. The Tautee system houses a flourishing pre-Warp civilization not quite ready to join the Federation, so the Prime Directive limits Kirk's ability to prevent the disaster, and to make matters worse his rescue efforts provoke an attack from four Klingon warships. But soon Kirk recognizes that he must get to the bottom of the forces at work in the Tautee system, because they could spill over into the rest of the galaxy. When an entire solar system begins to disintegrate into cosmic rubble, Captain Kirk suspects that rumors of a new Klingon superweapon are all too true. The Tautee system houses a flourishing pre-warp civilization not quite ready to join the Federation, so the Prime Directive limits Kirk's ability to undo the disaster, and his humanitarian rescue operations provoke a hostile response from four Klingon warships. What is destroying the Tautee system? The USS Enterprise must uncover the truth before the catastrophe extends beyond Tautee to threaten the very nature of reality itself. An entire solar system starts to fall apart and Captain Kirk suspects the Klingons of testing a new super-weapon. However, a Prime Directive instructs him only to rescue the survivors of the worlds of Tautee, and even that mission is endangered by the hostile approach of the Klingon Birds of Prey. Kirk's attempts to rescue the Tautee solar system are opposed by the Klingons