After saving Earth from the threat of
V'Ger, James T. Kirk is called again to the final frontier. His new
mission: to lead a valiant group of settlers to a distant world, to
defend the struggling colony from alien threats, and to explore the
diverse mysteries and dangers of a strange new Earth! Far from the
federation, a newly discovered M-Class world has been eyed as a
potential home by a group of hardy and determined colonists.
Starfleet can spare only one starship to
escort the would-be settlers on their perilous voyage, but that ship is
none other than the legendary Starship Enterprise, commanded by the
most well-known captain in the quadrant. Now Kirk finds himself
responsible for the lives of 60,000 men, women, and children - a test
that grows all the more difficult when the expedition is caught in the
middle of an ancient feud between two dangerous alien races.
Title: Belle Terre Book 2
Author(s): Dean Wesley Smith with Diane Carey Date: June, 2000
The Starship Enterprise has embarked upon
its most ambitious assignment yet: to lead a courageous band of
settlers to a far-off planet, to defend the fragile colony from alien
threats, and to unravel the enigmatic riddles of a brand-new Earth! A
six-month distance from the Federation, the planet Belle Terre offers a
new life to more that 60,000 families, pioneers, scientists,
expatriate, go-getters, loners, and entrepreneurs, all under the
watchful eye of Captain Kirk and his crew.
But the would-be colonists have barely
settled in the untamed wilderness of their new home when Spock makes a
startling discovery: not only does one of the planet's moons contain a
rare ore of almost inestimable value, that same moon is also violently
unstable. Within months, it will inevitably explode - destroying all
life on Belle Terre.
Title: Rough Trails Book 3
Author(s): L. A. Graf Date: July, 2000
Kirk's latest voyage has brought him far
into the final frontier. His new mission: to help a determined band of
pioneers colonize a harsh and unforgiving world, defend the vulnerable
settlers from the constant threat of alien invasion, and protect the
planet's unique and precious resources for the sake of the entire
Federation. Months after their departure from Earth, the struggling
colonists have barely established a precarious toehold on Belle Terre,
a ravaged world still recovering from a catatrophic planetarg disaster.
Fierce cyclones, storms, landslides, and flash floods make survival
itself a never-ending challenge.
While
Kirk and the crew patrol the sector, on guard against predatory aliens
and greedy space pirates, Chekov, Uhura, and Sulu stay behind to assist
the hapless settlers in their desperate battle to put down roots in the
turbulent soil of an angry planet. But the imperiled colonists are a
fractious and intensely individualistic group, not inclined to take
orders or direction from the Starfleet guardians. Chekov and the others
find their ingenuity and diplomatic shills tested to the limit - just
to save a people who don't want their help!
Author(s): The Flaming Arrow Book 4
Author(s): Kathy Oltion and Jerry Oltion Date: July, 2000
Beyond the borders of the Federation,
Kirk must bring peace and security to the final frontier. His new
mission: to defend an isolated human colony on a newly discovered
world, deter aggression from neighboring alien races and ensure the
survival of a brave new Earth. Belle Terre's stubborn colonists have
survived the countless hardships and natural disasters of their new
home, only to face a deadly foreign enemy.
The alien Kauld, intent on claiming the
world's unique resources for thir own, are determined to destroy the
human settlements at any cost. Months away from any hope of Starfleet
reinforcements, the Enterprise is all that stands between Belle Terre
and an all-out alien invasion. But even Kirk and his crew may not be
enough to save the entire planet from a relentless assault by the
ultimate superweapon!
Title: Thin Air Book 5
Author(s): Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith Date: August, 2000
Many light-years away from the safety of
the Federation, the Starship Enterprise stands guard over an alien
world whose unique natural resources could change the balance of power
throughout the galaxy. The ship's crucial assignment: to maintain a
Federation presence on the planet below, to defend the world's newly
arrived inhabitants from hostile aliens, and to fight a solitary battle
against all who would claim the planet's riches for their own.
Against all odds, Kirk and his crew have
preserved the struggling Federation colony on Belle Terre, but their
heroic efforts may have been in vain. In a last-ditch attempt to drive
the entrenched settlers off their new home, the alien Kauld have
contaminated the planet's atmosphere with a destructive biochemical
agent that will soon render the entire world inimical to human life.
With only weeks to spare, Spock races to
find a scientific solution to their dire predicament, while Kirk takes
the battle to the enemy, determined to wrest the secret of their
salvation from the very forces out to destroy the future of this new
Earth!
Title: Challenger Book
6
Author: Diane Carey August, 2000
Far from the reaches of the Federation,
the Starship Enterprise has been guiding the development of a once
obscure colony planet upon whose fate the future of the galaxy may now
depend. The Enterprise has been the sole representative of the
Federation, fighting a constant battle to protect the colonists from
enemy aliens and standing alone against all those who have their own
designs on the colony world.
But all adventures come to an end. It is
time for Captain Kirk and the Enterprise to turn over the guardianship
of the colony to another ship and crew. The new ship arrives in the
midst of a deadly attack on the colony - and is destroyed. With the
Enterprise off fighting a new and powerful enemy that threatens the
colony as well as its enemies, Commander Nick Keller, first officer and
ranking survivor of the decimated crew, in marooned and at first alone
- but he must find a way to complete his original mission and come to
the aid of the Enterprise in what might be its most desperate hour.
Title: The Brave and the Bold, Book 1
Writer(s): Keith R. A. DeCandido, published Dec./02
An all new adventure spanning three generations!
The Malkus Artifacts: four deadly
machines, wielded as weapons of absolute power by an interstellar
tyrant thousands of years ago and scattered across the alpha Quadrant
when he was overthrown. After their existence was discovered in 2151 by
Captain Jonathan Archer of the Starship EnterpriseTM, all Starfleet vessels were warned to keep an eye out for these most dangerous devices.
One hundred years later, Captain James T. Kirk of the U.S.S. EnterpriseTM
and Commodore Matt Decker of the U.S.S.ConstellationTM
come across the first artifact on the colony world of Alpha Proxima II
- a world ravaged by a mysterious plague. As the crews of the two
mighty vessels work to find a cure and locate the artifact, two brave
captains must bring order to Proxima before it's too late!
One hundred years after that, Commander Benjamin Sisko of Station Deep Space 9TM
enlists the aid of Captain Declan Keogh of the U.S.S. Odyssey to help
construct a farming colony of Bajor's second moon - but the colony is
placed in jeopardy when the Bajoran terrorist Orta discovers the second
artifact and threatens destruction on a massive scale!
Title: The Brave and the Bold, book 2, published Dec.02
Two of the Malkus artifacts - used as
deadly weapons millenia ago - have been uncovered since their discovery
in the 22nd century. Now in the 24th century, two more artifacts lie in
wait, ready to wreak havoc on an unsuspecting galaxy.
While on their shakedown cruise, Captain Kathryn Janeway and the Starship VoyagerTM
discover the third artifact in the Demilitarized Zone - in the hands of
the Maquis! With the aid of Captain Robert DeSoto of the U.S.S. Hood,
Voyager security chief Lieutenant Tuvok infiltrates the Maquis, and
must gain the trust of cell leaders Chakotay and Cal Hudson before the
terrorists use the artifact to throw the DMZ into chaos!
When the final artifact is unearthed on
Narendra III, it leads to several mysterious disappearances throughout
Federation and KlingonTM space - including Federation Ambassadors Spock and Worf. Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the Starship EnterpriseTM
joins forces witgh Captain Klag of the I.K.S, Gorkon - but even the
greatest vessels of two nations may not be enough when the deadly
secreto of the final artifact is revealed!
(Title:) Startrek, The Lost Era; 2311, "The Serpents Among the Ruins"
(Writer:) David R. George, III, published September, 2003
The year is 2311.
It is a year of infamy, a year that later
generations will remember as one that altered the course of history at
the cost of thousands of lives. It is the year of the Tomed Incident,
and its tale can at last be told.
In the midst of escalating political
tensions among the Klingons, the Romulans, and the Federation,
Starfleet goes forward with the inaugural flight of Universe
a prototype starship that promises to revolutionize space exploration.
But the experiment results in disaster, ravaging a region of space
dangerously close to the Romulan Star Empire, apparently confirming
suspicions that the Federation has begun testing a weapon of mass
destruction.
As the military buildup accelerates on
both sides of the Neutral Zone, Captain John Harriman of the Federation
flagship U.S.S. EnterpriseTM
NCC-1701-B is fated for a final confrontation with his oldest enemy at
a flashpoint in history - with the Beta Quadrant one wrong move from
the outbreak of total war.
Title: Startrek, the Lost Era, "The Art of the Impossible"
Writer(s); Keith R. A. Candido, published October, 2003
The years are 2328-2346
To the Cardassians, it is a point of
pride. To the Klingons, a matter of honor. But the 18 year cold war
between these two empires - euphemistically remembered in later years
as the Betreka Nebult "Incident" - creates a vortex of politics,
diplomacy and counterintelligence that will define an age and shape the
future.
What begins as a discovery that would
enable the Klingon Empire to reclaim a lost piece3 of its past becomes
a prolonged struggle with the rapidly expanding Cardassian Union, which
has claimed dominion over a region of space the the Klingons hold
sacred. Enter the Federation, whose desire to preserve interstellar
stability leads Ambassador Curzon Dax to broker a controversial and
tenuous peace - one that is not with opponents, including Lieutenant
Elias Vaughn of Starfleet special ops.
But there are wheels within wheels to the
drama unfolding in the Betraka Nebula. Winthin the shadowy rooms of the
Cardassian Obsidian Order, Klingon Imperial Intelligence and even the
Romulan Tal Shiar, secret scales are being balanced - and for every
gain made foe the sake of peace, there will come a loss.
Title: Startrek, the Lost Era, "The Well of Souls"
Writer(s): Ilsa J. Bick, published November 2003
The year is 2336
For twelve years, she was captain of the
Federation's flagship. But while exploits as commander of the U.S.S.
Enterprise NCC1701-CTM are legend, little has been revealed about Rachel Garett, her vessel, or the unusual men and women of her crew. Until now!
When the archaeological find of the
decade offers possible hints about an earlier Cardassian civilization,
it attracts not merely those seeking to quench their thirst for
knowledge, but also parties with far less noble interests. Among the
latter is the Asfar Qatala, a notorious criminal cartel with a
disturbing connections to one of the Enterprise's highest-ranking
officers. Now Captain Garrett and her crew are swept into a maelstrom
of kidnapping, extortion, and murder - as well as a desperate, secret
struggle between the Qatala and it chief rival, the fledgling Orion
Syndicate.
And beneath the surface of the frozen
world on which the proto-Cardassian discovery was made, another drama
is playing out that will force Garett to make the most difficult
decision of her career...amid ruins reputed to link the living with the
Ancient Dead.
Title: Star Trek I.K.S. Gorkon, book one "A Good Day to Die"
Writer(s): Keith R.A. DeCandido. published November 2003
These are the voyages of the Klingon
Defense Force vessel I.K.S. gorkon, part of the mighty new Chancellor
class. Its mission: to explore strange new worlds...to seek out new
life and new civilizations and to conquer them for the greater glory of
the Klingon Empire!
Newly inducted into the prestigious Order
of the Bat'leth, Captain Klag, son of M'Raq, leads the crew of the
Gorkon into the unexplored Kavrot Sector to find new planets on which
toplant the Klingon flag. There, the discover the Children of
San-Tarah, a species with a warrior culture that rivals - and perhaps
exceeds - the Klingons' own, living on a planet that would be a great
addition to the Empire. Klag could call in General Talak's fleet to
bring the world under the Klingons' heel - but the San-Tarah offer Klag
a challenge he cannot refuse. The Gorkon crew and the San-Tarah will
engage in several matial contests, if the Klingons lose, they will go
and never trouble the planet again - but if they are victorious, the
San-Tarah will cede themselves to the Empire, and Klag will have
singlehandedly conquered an entire world!
The first tale in a glorious adventure
that will be remembered in song and story throughout the Empire!
Title: Startrek, The Lost Era, "Deny Thy Father"
Writer(s): Jeff Mariotte, Published December, 2003
The years are 2355-2357
Two men. Both defined by the personal
tragedy that drove them apart. Both driven by their desire to serve,
and their devotion to duty. Both haunted by the past, and uncertain of
the future...And both unable to reach across the chasm that separates
father and son.
In the wake of the Tholian attack that
nearly cost him his life, civilian strategic consultant Kyle Riker
becomes the target of an apparen conspiracy within Starfleet Command,
forcing him off Earth and beyond Federation territory to evade the
attempts on his life. But danger is never far off, even on a backwater
world where Kyle's very name brings the promise of death.
At the same time, the Starfleet career of
Kyle's estranged son William Riker is under way in earnest, from his
turbulent formative years at the Academy to his first perilous missions
as a ensign aboard the Starship Pegasus.
And even as Kyle searches for the truth behind the events that have
made him a fugitive, Will is pursued as well - by a family legacy he
fears he will never escape.
Title: Startrek, I.K.S. Gorkon, Book 2, "Honor Bound"
Writer(s): Keith R. A. CeCandido, published December, 2003
The Order of the Bat'leth:
founded after Kahless's ascension to Sto-Vo-Kor, the Order was tasked
with rooting out dishonorable behavior and spreading the word of
Kahless to the Klingon people. In the subsequent millennium, the Order
has become more ceremonial, but now Chancellor Martok has called the
Order back to its original function-to preserve the cause of honor.
Captain Klag of the I.K.S. Gorkon -
The newest inductee into the order - has given his word to the Children
of San-Tarah that the Klingon Empire will leave them in peace. But
Klag's old rival General Talak has ordered to go back on his word and
aid Talak in conquering the San-Tarah's world. Now Klag must stand
against his fellow Klingons - but will even his fellow members of the
Order of the Bat'leth, not to menthion his own crew, follow him into disobedience? Or will the betray him to Talak?
The crew of the Gorkon faces its greatest trial in a glorious adventure that will be remembered in song and story throughout the Empire!
Title: Star Trek, the Lost Era, "Catalyst of Sorrows"
Writer(s): Margaret Wander Bonnano published January, 2004
Synopsis: The year is 2360
She was trained to be a killing machine.
Abandoned as a child, without home or family, past or future, Zetha
survived only be her own cunning in the back alleys of Romulus before
being take be the Tal Shiar and remade into one of its deadliest
weapons. But Zetha is about to undertake a mission unlike any in her
experience.
The mysterious return of a virulent
scourge thought to be long extinct threatens devastation on a scale
almost too horriffic to contemplate, Zetha's only hope of stopping it
is across the Neutral Zone - among the enemies of Romulus. Now Admiral
Uhura, centenarian chief of Starflight Intelligence, must decide what
to do with the knowledge Zetha has risked her life to bring to her. In
order to stop the spread of the disease that is already ravaging the
Romulan Empire, Uhura must assign a hand-picked team of Starfleet
officers to covertly trace the contagion to its source - and do
whatever is necessary to contain it.
But the world awaiting Lieutenant
Benjamin Sisko, Lieutenant Tuvok, Dr. Selar, and Zetha herself is a hot
zone of secrets, decedptions, and subtle machinations revealing an
imminent holocaust beyond anything the away team expected, or what they
could hope to combat.
Title: Star Trek, the Case of
the Colonist's Corpse A Sam Cogley Mystery (Editor's note:
this should be on a page with the original Star Trek books, not the
sequels. However, it sounds so interesting I decided to include it
here.)
Writer(s): Bob Ingersoll and Tony Isabella, published January 2004
Synopsis:
When Captain Kirk faced court-martial, he chose the best lawyer in the
Federation - Samuel T. Cogley, a cranky old man who prefers books to
padds and people to computers. Now, once again, it's Sam Cogley for the defense!
The planet Aneher II sits in the middle
of the Neutral Zone, and neither the Klingon Empire nor the Federation
can claim it. Under the terms of the Organian Peace Treaty, any such
contested colony world will go to the party - Federation or Klingon -
which shows it can best develop the planet.
At first the two colonies live in peace,
but it's a fragile peace, one shattered when Administrator Daniel
Latham, the head of the Federation Colony, is found murdered, and
Commander Mak'Tor, the head of the Klingon colony, is found crouched
over Latham's body, a discharged phaser still hot in his hand.
When Lieutenant Areel Shaw of Starfleet
is assigned to prosecute Mak'Tor, Sam Cogley volunteers to defend the
accused Klingon. But when Cogley's own investigation provides the
prosecution with its key piece of evidence and his courtroom tactics
unexpectedly backfire, can even the galaxy's most brilliant defense
attorney win the day in..."The Case of the Colonist's Corpse"
Title: A Time To Be Born
Writer(s): John Vornholt, published February 2004
Synopsis: On
the cusp of their epic battle with Shinzon, many of Captain Jean-Luc
Picardd's long-time crew were heading for new assignments and new
challenges. Among the changes we William Riker's promotion to captain
and his new command. Riker's marriage to Counselor Deanna Troi, and Dr.
Beverly Crusher's new career at Starfleet Medical. But the story what
set them on a path away fromn the "Starship Enterprise" has never been told... Until NOW!
The site of one of the Dominion War's
fiercest battles, the Rashanar Sector now contains a vast interstellar
graveyard littered with the lifeless hulks of hundreds of devastated
starships. The explosive destruction of so many varied warp drives has
severely distorted the space-time continuum in this region, resulting
in dangerous unleashed energies and bizarre gravitational anomalies.
The Enterprise
has been assigned to patrol the perimeter of the danger zone while
other vessels carry out the difficult and highly hazardous task of
retrieving the bodies of the dead from the wrecked starships.
To some alien races, the former
battleground is hallowed space. To others, including the rapacious
Androssi, it is a scavenger's paradise, ripe fo salvage. None expect
this ship's graveyard to hold a deadly secret that will force the
android Data to make a heart-wrenching decision about the path his life
will take - and that will endanger not only the Enterprise, but Picardd's future in Starfleet.
Title: Startrek Captain's Peril
Writer(s): William Shatner with Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, published February, 2004
Synopsis: The
Dominion War is over. The Federation is at peace. What better time for
two legendary starship captains to set aside the demands of duty and
simply take some well-deserved time off?
But when James T. Kirk and Jean-Luc
Picard arrive on Bajor to dive among the ruins of an ancient sunken
city, conditions are far from what they had planned. The small group of
scientists the captains have joined suddenly find their equipment
sabotaged - isolating them from Deep Space NineTM and any hope of rescue - as one by one, a murderer stalks them.
Cut off from the people and technology on
which they have always depended. Kirk and Picard must rely more than
ever on their own skills and abilities, and their growing friendship,
to solve the mysterious deaths and protect one of Bajor's greatest
living treasures.
At the same time, Kirk finds the events
he and Picardstruggle with are similar to one of the first challenges
he faced as the new captain of the "Starship Enterprise", less than six months into his first five-year mission.
Now, with time running out for a dying
child trapped in the scientists' camp, and Picard missing after a
diving disaster, Kirk must search his memories of the past to relive
one of his earliest adventures, propeling hime into a harrowing
personal journey that reveals the beginning of his path from young
Starfleet officer to renowned legend, and the existence of a new and
completelyh unsuspected threat to the existence of all life in the
universe.
Title: A Time to Die
Writer(s): John Vornholt published March 2004
Synopsis: On
the cusp of their epic battle with Shinzon, many of Captain Jean-Luc
Picardd's long-time crew were heading for new assignments and new
challenges. Among the changes were William Riker's promotion to captain
and his new command. Riker's marriage to Counselor Deanna Troi, and Dr.
Beverly Crusher's new career at Starfleet Medical. But the story of
what set them on a path away from the Starship EnterpriseTM has never been told. Until Now!
It was supposed to be a mission of mercy,
until the unthinkable occurred: the destruction of the U.S.S. Juno, killing all hands on board. Starfleet Command has unjustly assessed the actions of Captain Picard and the Enterprise
crew during that fateful assignment to the Rashanar Battle Site - the
sector that saw one of the fiercest conflicts of the Dominion War, and
which is now a hazardous interstellar graveyard filled with hundreds of
devastated starships. While the court-ordered medical evaluation that
relieved Picard of command is ongoing, there is growing speculation
that his illustrious career may be coming to an end.
To clear his former commander, acting
Captain William Riker and a demoralized skeleton crew agree to conduct
a covert operation, and must venture the Starship EnterpriseTM
back into Rashanar to track down a mythical menace_one that may already
be responsible for the annihilation of countless fully armed starships.
Unbridled hostility and the promise of death lurk at every turn, but
they could never imagine that their only chance of survival may lie in
the unexpected return of a long - absent friend.
Title: A Time to Sow
Writer(s): Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore published April 2004
On the cusp of their epic battle with
Shinzon, many of Captain Jean-Luc Picardd's long-time crew were heading
for new assignments and new challenges. Among the changes were William
Riker's promotion to captain and his new command, Riker's marriage to
Counselor Deanna Troi, and Dr. Beverly Crusher's new career at
Starfleet Medical. But the story of what set them on a path away from
the Starship EnterpriseTM has never been told.
More than two centuries ago, the Dokaalan sent an unmanned probe into
the void, bearing a distress call for anyone who could save their
doomed world. But the message reached Federation space too late to save
the planet or its people, or so it was believed.
Generations later, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the
Enterprise-E are stunned to discover the last of the Dolaalan - now
only a colongy fighting to stay alive in a decrepit asteroid mining
complex. Although their home planet was destroyed long ago, the
survivors hope to someday transform a nearby planet into a new home for
their people. But bitter divisions exist among the Dokaalan, sowing the
seeds of sabotage and terrorism - and placing Picard and the Starship EnterpriseTM in the middle of an excalating crisis that can only lead to total destruction!
Title: A Time to Harvest
Writer(s): Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore, published May 2004
On the cusp of their epic battle with Shinzon,
many of Captain Jean-Luc Picard's long-time crew were heading for new
assignments and new challenges. Among the changes were William Riker's
promotion to captain and his new command, Riker's marriage to Counselor
Deanna Troi, and Dr. Beverly Crusher's new career at Starfleet Medical.
But the story of what set them on a path away from the Starship EnterpriseTM has never been told. Until Now
Still reeling from the disastrous events
that have rocked all of Starfleet and tarnished the career of one of
the Federation's most decorated captains, Picard and his crew must now
endure the unthinkable: scandal, ostracism, and an uncertain future.
But despite all that has occurred, none aboard the Starship EnterpriseTM have forgotten their duty as Starfleet officers.
Assigned to assist the imperiled Dokaalan
- a small colony of refugees who maintain a precarious existence in a
rapidly disintegrating asteroid mining complex - the EnterpriseTM
crew must somehow aid this alien race in terraforming a nearby planet
so that it might someday provide a new home for their kind. But violent
acts of sabotage soon turn a humanitarian crisis into a deadly
confrontation. To save the Dokaalan from extinction, Picard must
uncover the presence of an old adversary - and prevent a disaster of
catastrophic proportions!
Title: A Time to Love
Writer(s): Robert Greenberger published June, 2004
Synopsis: On
the cusp of their epic battle with Shinzon, many of Captain Jean-Luc
Picard's long-time crew were heading for new assignments and new
challenges. Among the changes were William Riker's promotion to captain
and his new command. Riker's marriage to Counselor Deanna Troi, and Dr.
Beverly Crusher's new career at Starfleet Medical. But the story of
what set them on a path away from the Starship EnterpriseTM has never been told.
One hundred years ago, the recurring
conflicts between the Bader and the Dorset ended mysteriously when both
races colonized the distant planet Delta Sigma IV - a world located far
from the destructive wars of their people - and quickly became the
Federation's perfect example of interspecies cooperation. But there are
now rumblings of trouble in paradise, as an investigation led by Kyle
Riker - Commander William Riker's estranged father - into this
harmonious society has discovered a shocking, immutable truth: over the
next few generations, the reaction to a native gas will spell the
extinction of Delta Sigma IV's inhabitants.
Captain Picard and his crew, still
recovering from the tragic events that have tarnished the career of one
of the Federation's most decorated captains, must come to the aid of a
world that once knew only peace, but now faces emerging violence and
chaos ... and Commander Riker must confront the reality that his own
father may be held responsible for Delta Sigma IV's almost certain
downfall!
Title: A Time to Hate
Writer(s): Robert Greenbrier, published July 2004
Synopsis: On
the cusp of their epic battle with Shinzon, many of Captain Jean-Luc
Picard's long-time crew were heading for new assignments and new
challenges. Amonth the changes were William Riker's promotion to
captain and his new command. Riker's marriage to Counselor Deanna Troi,
and Dr. Beverly Crusher's new career at Starfleet Medical. But the
story of what set them on a path away from the Starship EnterpriseTM has never been told.
The recurring blood feuds between the
Bader and the Dorset ended mysteriously a century ago when both races
colonized the planet Delta Sigma IV. But, unknown until now, it was a
reaction to a naturally occuring gas that led to their harmonious
existence...a reaction that would eventually mean certain death for the
planet's inhabitants. What the Enterprise
crew believed was a cure for the population - a treatment introduced
into Delta Sigma IV's environment by Kyle Riker, a man at odds with his
son, Commander William Riker - has instead triggered worldwide carnage,
as long-suppressed aggression and hostility are suddenly and violently
unleashed.
Caught in a world on the brink of
self-destruction, Captain Picard - a man still waging his own personal
battle for redemption in the eyes of his commanding officers - must
somehow find a was to resolve the catastrophic event and save his crew,
even as the implications of his actions my ultimately doom an entire
race...
Title: A Time to Kill
Writer: David Mack, published August 2004
Synopsis: On
the cusp of their epic battle with Shinzon, many of Captain Jean-Luc
Picard's long-time crew were heading for new assignments and new
challenges. Among the changes were William Riker's promotion to captain
and his new command, Riker's marriage to Counselor Deanna Troi, and Dr.
Beverly Crusher's new career at Starfleet Medical. But the story of
what set them on a path away from the Starship EnterpriseTM has never been told.
At the height of the Dominion War and
unknown to all save those in the highest levels of command, the
Federation secretly armed the neutral planet Tezw2a with devastating
weapons -- part of a contingency plan again the Dominion if the front
lines collapsed. But Tezwa also lies near the border of the Klingon
Empire ... making the Federation's covert strategy in direct violation
of their fragile peace treaties, and creating the potential threat of
scandal and all-out war.
Now Tezwa's power-hungry prime minister
is all too eager to flex his newfound military muscle, menacing a
nearby Klingon border world. Sent on an urgent diplomatic mission,
Captain Picard and the Enterprise
crew are caught in the crossfire as the crisis quickly escalates. With
time running out and billions of lives at stake, only one can avert the
looming disaster -- Ambassador Worf, who must choose between his oath
to the Federation and his loyalty to Martok, Chancellor of the Klingon
Empire.
Title: A Time to Heal
Writer(s): David Mack published September, 2004
Synopsis: On
the cusp of their epic battle with Shinzon, many of Captain Jean-Luc
Picard's long-time crew were heading for new assignments and new
challenges. Among the changes were William Riker's promotion to captain
and his new command, Riker's marriage to Counselor Deanna Troi, and Dr.
Beverly Crusher's new career at Starfleet Medical. But the story of
what set them on a path away from the Starship EnterpriseTM has never been told.
A catclysmic war between the Federation
and the Klingon Empire has been miraculously averted, and a new
government is finally in place on the planet Tezwa. But deadly secrets
still threaten the fragile peace accord.
Rebels still loyal to the old Tezwa
regime have capture Commander Riker and are willing to kill to achieve
their goals...The Orion Syndicate is interfering in the rebuilding -
and may also be involved in much more than that. But the most devastg
revelation of all threatens the foundations of the Federation itself -
leaving Captain Picard to possibly face the very conflict that he
labored so hard to prevent.
Title: A Time for War, A time for Peace
Writer(s): Keith R. A. Candido published October, 2004, ending the story arc.
Synopsis: On
the cusp of their epic battle with Shinzon, many of Captain Jean-Luc
Picard's long-time crew were heading for new assignments and new
challenges. Among the changes were William Riker's promotion to captain
and his new command, Riker's marriage to Counselor Deanna Troi, and Dr.
Beverly Crusher's new career at Starfleet Medical. But the story of
what set them on a path away from the Starship EnterpriseTM has never been told.
Until Now!
Following the scandalous Tezwa affair,
the Federation president's resignation forces an election, with the
future of the United Federation of Planets to be determined by who
emerges victorious from a hotly contested vote. But it is the fate of
the entire galaxy that may actually be decided on Qo'noS, as the
Federation embassy is seized by terrorists whose actions expose
intrique reaching the highest levels of Klingon government - and it
will take all of Ambassador Worf's skills to keep the fragile
Federation - Klingon alliance from collapsing. And while this potential
intergalactic chaos looms, Commander Riker finds his plans for command
and marriage soured by a brutal, high-leve inspection of the ship of
the ship from which the crew may not excape unscathed.
Title: Captain's Blood
Writer(s): William Shattner with Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, published January 2005
When Spock is publicly assassinated at a
Romulan peace rally, Starfleet and the Federation are unable to search
for the criminals responsible without triggering an intergalactic war.
It falls to James T. Kirk, now retired, to investigate his friend's
murder. Given clandestine assistance by Captain Will Riker of the Starship Titan,
and accompanied by his good fiend Jean-Luc Picard, Kirk travels to
Romulus as a civilian, along with his five-year-old child, Joseph. On
the Romulan world remus, Kirk unexpectedly encounters an alluring enemy
from his past as Picard and he discover that Spock's apparent murder
hides an even deeper mystery, literally reaching beyond the limits of
the galaxy.
Trapped on an alien world on the eve of a
Romulan civil war that could drag the entire galaxy into the conflict,
Kirk discovers a hidden Reman fortress. There, he learns of the true
threat facing the Romulans, and is forced into the heartrending
realization that for peace toprevail, he must sacrifice the freedom of
his son, whose very blood holds a staggering secret.
Title: Enemy Territory, Book 3 of the I.K.S. Gorkon series
Writer(s): Keith R. A. DeCandido, published March, 2005
The Elabrej Hegemony
For Centuries, the Elabrej firmly
believed that they were alone in the universe, and that no sentient
life existed outside their home star system. But their beliefs are
shattered when a controversial exploration vessel of their own making
encounter - and fires upon - an alien ship. The aliens return fire and
destroy them - then come to Elabrej to investigate...
The Klingon Empire
While exploring the uncharted Kavrot Sector, the crew of the I.K.S. Gorkon learn that their brother ship, the I.K.S. Kravokh, was fired on by an alien vessel and subsequently destroyed it. After setting course to investigate this new people, the Kravokh
disappears - but a massive alien fleet is gathering at their last known
location, Captain Klag must determine what has happened to the Kravokh, and who this new foe of the empire is...
As two civilizations prepare for war, the
secret agenda of both the Elabrej oligarchs and Klingon Imperial
Intelligence may serve only to deepen the conflict - and Captain Klag
may also face a mutiny.
Title: Engines of Destiny
Writer(s): Gene DeWeese, published March, 2005
The Machine Age
After the apparent death of James T. Kirk on the U.S.S.EnterpriseTM NCC-1701-B,
Montgomery Scott decides to leave Starfleet. A chance encounter with a
mysterious woman named Guinan leads him to hitch a ride on the U.S.S. Jenolen - which crashes into a Dyson Sphere, leaving only Scotty to survive suspended as a transporter pattern.
Seventy-five years later, he is revived aboard the Enterprise-D
on which Guinan serves as bartender. But fate has not finished with
either Scotty of Guinan. The engineer hatches an audacious plan to
travel back in time and rescue Jim Kirk the moment before he would
vanish into the nexus and bring him back to the twenty-fourth century
without damaging the timeline.
Scotty's plan, however, does not go as
expected. Though Kirk is rescued, the famed captain and the engineer,
as well as Captain Picard, Guinan, and the crew of the Enterprise-D,
are trapped in an altered past where there is no Federation, and no
human race. Sarek of Vulcan leads a ragtag collection of species
fighting a losing battle agains the Borg, who have swarmed into the
Alpha Quadrant and assimilated Earth.
Starfleet's finest miracle worker must
find a way to restore the timeline before the galaxy is overrun!
Title: Taking Wing, of Star Trek Titan
Writer(s): Michael A. Martin and Andy Mangels, published April, 2005
The Beginning of a new Star Trek Odyssey
After almost a decade of strife against
foes such as the Borg, the Cardassians, the Klingons, and the Dominion,
the United Federation of Planets is at the dawn of a new era. Starfleet
is renewing its mission of peaceful exploration, diplomacy, and the
expansion of knowledge. Among the starships spearheading that endeavor
is the U.S.S. Titan,
commanded by Captain William T. Riker and manned by the most
biologically varied and culturally diverse crew in Starfleet histor.
But their mission does not begin according to plan.
In the wake of Star Trek Nemesis, Praetor Shinzon, slayer of the
Romulan Senate, is dead. The power vacuum created by his demise has put
the Romulan Star Empire, longtime adversary of the Federation,at the
brink of civil war. Competing factions now vie for control of their
fragmenting civilization, and if the empire should fall, that entire
area of the galaxy may destabilize.
To restore order to the region, Titan's
long-anticipated mission of exploration is delayed as Starfleet assigns
Riker to set up power-sharing talks among the Romulan factions. But
even as the first tentative steps are taken toward building a new
Romulus, the remnants of the Tal Shiar, the dreaded Romulan
intellitence service, are regrouping behind the scenes for a power play
of their own. With no other help available, Riker and the Titan crew become the last hope to prevent the quadrant from falling into chaos.
Title: Errand of Fury, book 1 of Seeds of Rage Published April 2005
Writer(s): Kevin Ryan
Following the harrowing events of the Errand of Vengeance trilogy, tensions between the Federation and the Klingon Empire are the highest they've been since the Battle of Donatu V twenty-five years earlier. Even as Federation Ambassador Robert Fox engages in tense negotiations with the Klingon ambassador to maintain the peace, Captain Jame T. Kirk of the Starship EnterpriseTM sees his vessel refit from a ship of exploration into a ship of war. The coming conflict will take its toll on many personal lives as well.
Leslie Parrish: the security supervisor is stunned to learn that she is pregnant by her recently killed lover, Jon Anderson - and that Anderson was, in fact, a Kling spy, surgically altered to pass as human.
Karel: Brother of the Klingon agent posing as Anderson, and responsible for his death, Captain Koloth's new first officer face4s a crisis of faith as he sees the Klingon Empire falling into dishonorable ruin.
Michael Fuller: Father of Enterprise security supervisor Sam Fuller, who was killed in a battle with the Klingon, his son's death reminds him of Donatu V, of which he was one of the few survivors. Has Fuller reenlisted in Starfleet and joined the Enterprise Security team out of loyalty - or vengeance?
Title: Articles of the Federation, published June 2005
Writer(s): Keithy R. A. DeCandido
In the wake of the bestselling A Time for War, A Time for Peace and Titan: Taking Wing comes a unique look into the halls of power in the ® universe.
Following the surprise resignation of Federation President Min Zife after the disastrous Tezwa affair, Nan Bacco of Cestus III has won a hotly contested election to become the new chief executive of over 150 planetary civilizations and their colonies. But no sooner does she take office that the Romular Star Empire falls into chaos. With tensions already high, a Reman refugee ship is sighted approaching a Federation outpost, its intentions unknown.
As the first year of the Bacco Administration unfolds, the Federation Council is slow to work with its new president, and not always supportive of her policies or her appointments to key council positions; a successful first contance suddenly becomes a dipllomatic disaster; and the sins of President Zife prove difficult to lay to rest, as one celebrated Starfleet
officer's career reaches a turning point.
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