The story arc of this series,
Gateways, touches each to the various parts of Star Trek booklore. The
first book is set in the TOS setting with Captain Kirt and the
Enterprise. The second is 20 years later with Capt. Captain Keller and
Challenger. The third continues with Captain Picard and Enterprise 5
and the fourth is based near Deep Space 9 and uses the personnel of
that station to cope. Book 5 uses the Voyager crew struggling to unite
a fleet of diverse races and avoid a space war in the Delta Quadrant.
Captain Calhoun and the crew of the U.S.S. Excalibur in the New
Frontier fight to keep the peace in Book 6. As more titles become
available this explanation will grow.
Title: One Small Step, book one of "Gateways"
Written by Susan Wright, published August, 2001
Scattered throughout the galaxy are
Gateways capable of transporting matter and energy across unfathomable
distances. Left behind by a long-vanishe civilization, these mysterious
portals offer a means of exploration - or conquest - many times faster
than warp travel. The technology responsible for the Gateways has been
lost for at leat ten millennia, but that doesn't mean it can't be found
again....
Having defeated the hostile computer
program guarding an abandoned Kalandan outpost, Kirk and his crew are
exploring the artificialplanetoid in hopes of discovering the secret of
an ancient apparatus that has hurled the Starship Enterprise over
nearly a thousand lightyears. Unfortunately, the reactivate Gateway has
attracted the attention and avarice of various alien explorers,
including a mysterious race who claim to be none other than the
enigmatic Kalandans themselves.
Title: Chain Mail, Book 2 of "Gateways".
Written by Diane Carey, published August, 2001
Dangerous remnants of an extinct
interstellar civilization, the Gateways connect the Alpha Quadrant with
the farthest reaches of the galaxy. Hidden away in various corners of
the universe, the ancient portals could be the future of space travel,
but the may also provide an open doorway for an invasion from beyond.
Twenty years ago, in the space near Belle
Terre, a caravan of alien vessels disappeared into a gigantic Gateway.
Now the descendants of those aliens have returned, armed with
incredible new weapons and abilities. Commander Nick Keller of the
U.S.S. Challenger, alread struggling to maintain peace in the trouble
sector, must now cope with a fleet of hostile aliens driven by their
own fanatical agenda!
Title: Door into Chaos, Book 3 of "Gateways".
Written by Robert Greenberger, Published September 2001
More than 200,000 years ago, the ancient
Iconians created a network of interdimensional "Gateways" providing
instantaneous transportation across unimaginable distances. Once known
as the "Demons of Air and Darkness", the Iconians mysteriously vanished
many millennia ago, never to return o so it was believed.
Summoned to an emergency briefing at
Starfleet HQ, Captain Jean-Luc Picard is stunned to discover that the
legendary Iconians have returned at last, and are offering to sell the
secrets of their advanced technology to the Federation. To prove their
sincerity, they have reactivated their long-abandoned "Gateways", but
the results have been strife and chaos throughout the entire Alpha
Quadrant. Now Picard and the crew must contend with feuding Klingons
and Romulans as the cpatain seeks to discover the sinister truth behind
the Iconians' unexpected rebirth!
Title: Demons of Air and Darkness, Book 4 of "Gateways".
Written by Keith R. A. DeCandido, published September 2001
ROnce they moved from world to world in a
single step, through innumerable doors that spanned the galaxy. They
were master of space, and to those who feared them, the were demons of
air and darkness. But long ago they left their empire and their
miraculous technology behind. Now someone has found the key to it, and
all those doors have been flung open!
A world near Deep Space 9, threatened
with destruction from the distant Delta Quadrant, becomes the focus of
a massive rescue effort as Colonel Kira Nerys, her crew, and some
unexpected allies fight to avert disaster on a planetary scale.
Meanwhile, as Lt. Nog and Ens Thirishar ch'Thane search for a way to
shut down the spatial portals forever, Quark becomes involved in a
dangerous game that could determine, once and for all, who will control
the Gateways.
Title: No Man's Land, Book 5 of "Gateways"
Written by Christie Golden, published October, 2001
Throughout the galaxy, an ancient network
of interstellar portals has been reactivated, instantly linking distant
planets and civilizations. back home in the Alpha Quadrant, Starfleet
can devote all its considerable resources to coping with the Gateways'
crisis, but in the Delta Quadrant, there is only the starship Voyager.
Just as Voyager enters an unusually
hazardous region of space, the ship and its crew are confronted with a
flood of lost and disoriented starships from all over the galaxy.
Accidentally transported incredible distances by the unpredictable
Gateways, the diverse alien castaways regard each other and Voyager
with hostility and suspicion. Captain Janeway suddenly finds herself
struggling to hold together an extremely fractious fleet of dislocated
alien vessels even as the newly awakened Gateways hold open the
prospect of finally bringing her own ship home!
Title: Cold Wars, book 6 of "Gateways"
Written by Peter David, published October, 2001
Missing for 200 millenia, the legendary
Iconians have returned, bringing with them the secret of
interdimensional teleportation across vast interstellar distances.
Awakened once more, their ancient Gateways are rewriting the map of the
galaxy, and nowhere more than in the New Frontier.
A century ago, the imperial Thallonians
separated two feuding alien races, depositing each of them on a new
world safely distant from that of their ancestral enemies. Now,
however, the gateways have made it possible for the long dormant blood
feud to begin anew. Captain Mackenzie Calhoun of the U.S.S. Excalibur
and his partner, Captain Elizabeth Shelby of the U.S.S. Trident, Find
themselves fighting a losing battle to keep the horrific violence from
escalating, even as they gradually realize the catastrophic danger
posed by the Gateways themselves!
Title: What Lay Beyond, book 7 of "Gateways"
Writer(s): Diane
Carey, Peter David, Keith R.A. DeCandido, Christie Golden, Robert
Breenberger, and Susan Wright. Gateways concept by John J. Ordover and
Robert Greenberger, published October, 2002
Created by the ancient Iconians, the
Gateways offer instantaneous transport across unimaginable distances.
Throughout the known galaxy, the sudden reactivation of the Gateways
has destabilized instellar relations - and forced several of
Starfleet's finest commanders to leap through separate Gateways into
the unknown. This is a compendium of short stories on the theme with
several different authors contributing.
Captain James T. Kirk of Star Trek ®, the
original series, Captain Jean-Luc Picard of Star Trek: The Next
Generation ® Colonel Kira Nerys of Star Trek, Deep Space 9 ®, Captain
Kathyrn Janeway of Star Trek: Voyager ®, Captains Calhoun and Shelby of
Star Trek: New FrontierTM, and Captain Nick Keller of Star Trek: New EarthTM.
All of these heroes have taken the
ultimate gamble: hurling themselves through a Gateway without any
forewarning of what lay beyond. Now each must face his or her own
unique challenge, while struggling to find a way back to the ships and
homes left behind.
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