Each entry will cover the following.
Title, author, whether hardback or paperback, date of publishing, stardate
(if used, the # of the title (if it isn't a special book) and summary.
Title: Encounter at
Farpoint
Novelization by David
Gerrold. based on the t.v. episode Writer(s): D. C. Fontana and Gene Roddenberry, published: 10/1987
These are the all-new voyages of the U. S. S. EnterpriseTM! New starship and a new cast. Roddenberry starts a new series.
Captain's Log: Stardate 41254. The U. S. S. EnterpriseTM NCC-1701-D is en route to Cygnus IV - the edge of the known galaxy. There we will rendezvous with the ship's new first officer and other command personnel, and proceed with our mission to discover the truth about Farpoint Station, a starbase facility built by the inhabitants of Cygnus IV, a starbase of unparalleled size and complexity and infinite mystery. And the success or failue of this, our first mission together, may well determine the course of human exploration across the galaaxy for centuries to come. An omnipotent being, Q, decides to sit in judgement upon the Human race.
Title:
Metamorphosis
Writer(s): Jean Lorrah, published: March, 1990
Unexplained gravitational disturbances summon the Starship U. S. S. EnterpriseTM to the planet Elysia, and the android Lt. Comm. Data to a date with destiny. On this alien world, he will be drawn into an impossible quest, leading him to consequences both heartwarming and disastrous, as he finally dares to pursue his fondest desire: to become human.
Title:
Unification
A novel by Jeri Taylor based on the 2 part t.v. episode. Story by Rick Berman & Michael Piller published: 11/1991
Based on the epic two-part t.v. episode, here now is the story Star Trek fans have awaited for 5 long years, the story that brings together Spock - the enigmatic Vulcan who personified the original, classic Star Trek - with the crew of the Next Generation. Screenwriter Jeri Taylor brings all the excitement and wonder that have captivated fans of the smash t.v. series Star Trek: the Next Generation to this story of Spock's forbidden journey into the heart of the Romulan Empire - and the U. S. S. EnterpriseTM's desperate attempts to discover the reasons for his mission there. Join now with Capt. Picard, Lt. Comm. Data, and the rest of the Next Generation crew on a voyage of unsurpassed adventure, a voyage that brings them to the edge of history - and forces them to confront a shattering betrayal!
Title: Reunion
Writer(s): Michael Jan Friedman, published: 8/19/92
Before he commanded the U. S. S. EnterpriseTM, Jean-Luc Picard was the captain of the deep space exploration vessel, the U. S. S. Stargazer, on an incredible 22 year voyage. Now he is reunited with his old crew for the first time in over a decade, on a mission to see his former first officer installed as ruler of the Daa'Vit Empire. But the reunion turns deadly when a ruthless assassin begins eliminating the U. S. S. Stargazer crew one by one. Picard's present and former shipmates must join forces to solve the mystery of
the Captain's past - before the killer strikes again.
Title: Relics
A novel by Michaed Jan Friedman. Based on the T.V. episode, story and teleplay by Ron Moore, published: 11/1992
Montgomery Scott returns to the U. S. S. EnterpriseTM. Missing in space for 75 years, Scotty manages to survive against incredible odds, only to be found by the newest crew of the starship, U. S. S. EnterpriseTM NCC 1701-D. Though rescued, Scotty soon finds himself lost in a world that he barely recognizes, a world that has passed him by ... But the adventure is not over for Captain Scott who must do the impossible when the new U. S. S. EnterpriseTM faces a very old danger in a remote sector of space. This time Captain Picard and his crew will need more that all of their courage and all of their skills to save the great Starship from complete destruction. This time, they will need a miracle worker!
Title:
Descent
A novelization by Diane
Carey, based on the two-parter Descent, pt. 1, story by Jeri Taylor,
published: 10/1993
The Borg are back -
and nastier than ever. No longer mindless inhuman drones but Cyborg
soldiers on a mission to assimilate all intelligent life, their new goal
is the complete destruction of the Federation. And in the midst of facing
the Borg again Picard learns that he may be the cause of the change. Data
is changing also. For the first time in his life, Data feels a genuine
emotion - and that emotion is deadly, destructive rage. When it is
revealed that the Borg are commanded by an old enemy out of Data's past,
Data must choose between his allegiance to the Federation and the one
thing he wants above all else!
Title: The Devil's
Heart
Writer(s): Carmen Carter,
published: 2/1994
The
Devil's Heart - a legendary object of unsurpassed power and mystery.
Worlds that believe in magic consider it Darkness's mightiest talisman;
worlds of science consider it a lost artifact of some ancient and
forgotter race. Some say the Heart enables its possessor to control
people's minds and to amass wealth enough for a dozen lifetimes, while
others think it capable of raising the dead, perhaps even changing the
flow of time itself. But to all, the location of this fabled object has
remained a mystery - until now. An isolated archaeological outpost has
suddenly stopped responding to repeated requests for information. Sent
to discover why, the U. S. S. EnterpriseTM
crew finds a devastated outpost and a dying scientist, whose last words
fall on disbelieving ears: the devil's Heart has been found. Now, as
the quest for the Heart unfolds, Picard discovers the awful truth
behinds all the legends and age-old secrets: Whoever holds the Devil's
Heart possesses power beyond imagining.
Title: Star Trek:
Generations
Story by Rick Berman,
Ronald D. Moore & Brannon Braga, screenplay by Moore and Braga,
published: 11/1994 Novelization of the movie.
Picard ponders himself as
the last Picard when his brother and nephew dies. Romulans have attacked
an unarmed stellar lab, Starfleet wants to know why. Trilithium is the
prize. Dr. Tollan Soron has secretly stabilized it. He is the survivor of
a temporal energy anomoly that killed Admiral Kirk 75 years before. Soron
is rescued by the Klingon Duras sisters. He developed the super explosive
to reroute the anamoly called the Nexus so that he can go into it, which
is a joyful otherworld of eternal fantasies. Kirk is already in it. The
future of the galaxy is at stake. The Duras sisters die when their ship is
destroyed. The saucer has been separated from the battle bridge for safety
when a warp core breach erupts. The explosion slams the saucer into the
planet, the survivors pick up the pieces after. Soran has built another
star-killer and is preparing to activate when Picard tries to stop him. He
fails and goes into the Nexus where he finds Kirk. The two captains return
to the surface again to stop the destruction of the star and the
alteration of the Nexus. They defeat the scientist.
Title: Dark
Mirror
Writer(s): Diane Duane,
published: 11/1994, Stardate 44010.2
100
years ago, 4 crewmembers of the U. S. S. EnterpriseTM crossed the dimensional barrier and found a mirror
image of their own universe, populate by nightmare duplicates of their
shipmates. Barely able to escape with their lives, they returned, thankful
that the accident which had brought them there could not be duplicated -
or so they thought. But now the scientists of that empire have found a
doorway into our universe. Their plan: to destroy from within, to replace
one of our Starships with one of theirs. Their victims: the crew of the U.S.S. EnterpriseTM NCC-1701-D, who now
find themselves engaged in combat against the most savage enemies they
have ever encountered ... themselves!
Title: Q -
Squared
Writer(s): Peter David,
published: 9/1995
In all of his travels,
Captain Picard has never faced an opponent more powerful than Q, a being
from another continuum that he encountered on his very first mission as
Capt. of the EnterpriseTM. In the years
since, Q has returned again and again to harass him and the crew.
Dangerous, obnoxious, Q has always been mysterious and seemingly
all-powerful. But this time, when Q appears, he comes to Picard for help.
Apparently another member of the Q continuum has tapped into an awesome
power source that makes this being more powerful than the combined might
of the entire Q continuum. This renegade Q is named Trelane - also known
as the Squire of Gothos, a being whom Captain Kirk and his crew first
encountered over 100 years ago. Q explains that, armed with this
incredible power, Trelane has become unspeakably dangerous. Now Picard
must get involved in an awesome struggle between super beings. And this
time the stakes are not just Picard's ship, the galaxy or the universe -
this time the stakes are all of creation.
Title:
Federation
Writer(s): Judith and
Garfield Reeves-Stevens, published:
10/1995
A novel bridging the two series,
Star Trek, the original series and Star Trek, the Next Generation. Captain
Kirk and the crew of the U. S. S. EnterpriseTM NCC-1701 are faced with their most challenging
mission yet, rescuing renowned scientist Zefram Cochrane from captors who
want to use his skills to conquer the galaxy. 99 years in the future on
the U. S. S. EnterpriseTM 1701-D, Picard
must rescue an important and mysterious person whose safety is vital to
the survival of the Federation. As the two crews struggle to fulfill their
missions, destiny draws them closer together until past and future merge,
and the fate of each of the legendary starships rests in the hands of the
other vessel.
Title:
Vendetta
Writer(s): Peter David,
published: 5/1991, Stardate 44793.6
The
Borg, half organic being and half machine, are the most feared race in the
known galaxy. In his first encounter with them, Picard and the
EnterpriseTM crew stopped them from
conquering the entire Federation, now, they have returned. Answering a
distress call from a planet under attack by the Borg, the
EnterpriseTM meets Delcara, the lone
survivor of an alien race the Borg obliterated. Blinded by hatred, she
seeks the ultimate revenge, the complete destruction of her race's
executioners. But the EnterpriseTM crew
learns that her vengeance carries a terrible price, for once unleashed,
the destructive force she commands will annihilate not only the Borg, but
countless innocents as well!
Title:
Possession
Writer(s): J.M. Dillard
and Kathleen O'Malley, published: 5-96,
#40
Eighty years ago, bodiless entities
brought a plague of violence and bloodshed to the planet Vulcan. The
nightmare ended only when the entities were trapped inside special
containers. Now, on the eve of a galaxy-scale scientific exposition, the
containers have been opened, freeing the malevolent entities to possess
the minds of bodies of all they encounter, including the crew of the
Starship EnterpriseTM.
Friends turn
into foes, and no one can be trusted, as Captain Picard faces a deadly and
insidious threat. Unless the entities can be stopped once more, they will
spread their madness throughout the entire Federation.
Title: The Forgotten
War
Writer: William
Forstchen published: Sept.
1999
The legendary Starfleet Captain
Lucien Murat, a contemporary of Christopher Pike, disappeared during a
battle with the alien Tarn. Now, generations later, Captain Picard is
conducting delicate diplomatic negotiation with the Tarn when the
EnterpriseTM discovers the descendants of
Murat and his crew stranded on a desolate planet, still fighting a war
that ended decades ago. The human castaways face destruction, but more
than these precious lives are at stake. Unless Picard can find a solution,
a lost hero's legacy may ignite a new era of interstellar war!
Title: Triangle: Imzadi
II
Writer(s): Peter
David published: Oct.
99
Imzadi: to the people of the planet
Betazed, including Counsellor Deanna Troi, it means "beloved" and denotes
a special closeness that can never be truly broken. Or can
it?
Once William Riker was Deanna's
Imzadi, but now the counselor has embarked on an unlikely romance with Lt.
Commander Worf. At first glance, they cannot be more different, but over
time they have discovered hidden reserves of courage and compassion within
each other. Yet does Worf's future truly lie with Deanna, and whom shall
Troi ultimately call "Imzadi"? Even in the 24th Century, three is
definitely a crowd!
Title: The Badlands, Book 1 of
2
Writer(s): Susan
Wright published: Dec.
99
Located dangerously near the
Cardassian border, the unstable region of space known as the Badlands has
long been a hazard to interstellar navigation, characterized by violent
plasma storms and other even stronger phenomenon. Many starships have
faced destruction there, including at least two incarnations of the
Starship EnterpriseTM.
James T. Kirk
braves the perils of the Badlands to confront a Romulan Bird of Prey that
has entered Federation space in pursuit of a fleeing smuggler, but
trespassing Romulans may be the least of Kirk's problems when the
mysterious forces at work in the Badlands threaten both his ship and his
crew!
Generations later, Jean-Luc Picard
faces the same phantom menace when he commands his EnterpriseTM into the Badlands on a mission vital to
Federation-Cardassian relations. With Riker's life on the line, and the
entire ship in jeopardy, it's up to Lt. Com. Data to determine the true
nature of the Badlands' hidden danger! Book Two will be listed in the
Voyager Books section.
Title: Gemworld, Pt. 1 of
2
Writer(s): John
Vornholt Published: Feb., 2000, vol. #
58#
Dazzling to behold, Gemworld is one
of the wonders of the Federation: an artificial world composed entirely of
crystal, its atmosphere held in place by a sophisticated network of force
fields. Home to a half dozen different sentient races, this singular wold
is a low-gravity plaaypen of mammoth spires, endless fractal staircases,
gemstone arcs, and dazzling prisms, all carefully nurtured by the planet's
many inhabitants - until now.
Lieutenant
Melora Pazlar, who previously served on DS9, is currently stationed aboard
the Starship EnterpriseTM where an urgent
elepathic summons alerts her to the danger threatening her homeworld. The
crystals that once sheltered her people, and several other alien species,
are no growing at a vastly accelerated and uncontrollable rate, wreaking
havoc throughout the planet. Capt. Picard orders the EnterpriseTM on a rescue mission to Gemworld, but they arrive
to find a world in chaos - and an unexpected menace that traps the crew of
the EnterpriseTM along with the fragile
civilization they hope to save!
Title: Gemworld, Pt. 2 of
2
Writer(s): John
Vornholt Published: Feb., 2000, vol. #
59#
Sparkling like a three-dimensional
snowflake in the depths of space, Gemworld once was one of the
Federation's greatest marvels. Six different alien races coexisted
peacefully on an artificial world composed entirely of crystal - until the
very substance of Gemworld began to multiply out of control, tearing the
world apart. Now the entire planet - and the Starship EnterpriseTM as well - faces total
destruction.
The only way to stop the
disaster is to turn off the vast network of force fields holding
Gemworld's atmosphere in place, but to do so will require the cooperations
of each of the planet's 6 alien civilizations, one of which sabotaged
Gemworld in the first place. With time running out, Captain Picard and his
crew, including a lovestruck Lt. Barclay, must embark on a hazardous trek
across the dying flanet to find and unite the chief engineers from many
strange and exotic races - while watching out for a mass murderer
determined to destroy a world!
Title: Dark
Victory
Writer(s): William
Shatner Published April,
2000
The Mirror Universe is a dark and
twisted reflection of our own, where all that is noble and compassionate
is instead cruel and barbaric. Now our universe has been invaded by that
other reality's most feared tyrant: the dreaded Emperor Tiberius, the
Mirror Universe counterparrt of James T.
Kirk.
Just as Kirk survived his own era
to live into the 24th century, so has Tiberius returned from the past to
menace a new generation of Starfleet heroes. And only Kirk can stop him.
With Spock, McCoy, and Scotty at his side, and teamed with Jean-Luc Picard
and the valiant crew of the U.S.S. EnterpriseTM NCC-1701-E, Kirk is propelled into his most
personal and dangerous mission yeat as he fights to uncover the secret of
Tiberius' return and learn the terrible truth behind the madman's
nightmarish plans for the Federation.
But
how can he defeat an enemy who knows Kirk's mind as well as he knows his
own?
Title: Vulcan's
Heart
Writer(s): Josepha Sherman
and Susan Shwartz
2239. Now a
diplomat for the United Federation of Planets, Spock agrees to a bonding
with Saavik, his former protege and an accomplished Starfleet officer in
her own right. More than a betrothal but less than a wedding, the sacred
Vulcan rite is attended by both Spock's father, Sarek, and a nervous your
Starfleet officer names Jean-Luc
Picard.
Plans for the consummation of the
pair's union are thrown off course when Spock receives a top-secret
communication that lures him into the heart of the Romulan empire.
Enmeshed in the treacherous political intrigues of the Romulan capital,
undone by a fire that grows ever hotter within his blood, Spock must use
all his logic and experience to survive a crisis that will ultimately
determine the fate of empires!
Title: I,
Q!
Writer(s): John de Lancie and
Peter David
Published: December,
2000
The enigmatic entity known as Q
remains one of the great mysteries in the universe. Now actor John de
Lancie who has played Q on TV for more than a decade, joins Peter David,
the bestselling author of such acclaimed novels as "Q-in-Law" and
"Q-Squared", to send Q on an unforgettable cosmic odyssey told from the
mischievous trickster's unique point of
view.
The Maelstrom, a metaphysical
whirlpool of apocalyptic proportions, is pulling all of reality into its
maw, devouring time and space while bringing together people and places
from throughout the universe. The Q Continuum pronounces that the end of
everything has come, but Q refuses to meeks accept the end of he has
known. Defying the judgment of the Continuum, he sets out to derail
doomsday - whatever the cost!
Q has been
everywhere and done everything, but now he's in for a cosmic thrill ride
beyond even his own astonishingly unlimited imagination. Reluctantly
assisted Captain Jean-Luc Picers, can even Q prevent the Universe as We
Know It from going literally down the drain? I, Q is a wild and witty
voyage through the secret soul of creation - as only Q can tell it!
Title: Tooth and Claw
Writer(s): Doranna
Durgin published, Feb. 2001, Vol. #
60
Ntignano was a populated world with a
perfect sun - until the right technology fell into the wrong hands. Now
the sun is failing quickly, and the Starship EnterpriseTM has just one chance to evacuate the fleeing
refugees. Capt. Jean-Luc Picard must succeed in delicate negotiations with
the only people who can help them: a prickly neighboring species known as
the Tsorans.
To assist in that effort,
Commander Will Riker was assigned a very different diplomatic task. As a
polite formality and show of good faith, he accompanied a young Tsoran
prince to an exclusive hunting preserve. There, technology-damping fields
and some of the galaxy's deadliest predators were supposed to test the
untried noble's ability in the "kaphoora" - the hunt. But the shuttlecraft
didn't land on Fandre; it
crashed!
Now, cut off from Tsora
and the EnterpriseTM, the survivors of the
disaster face the ultimate sttruggle for survival. Without the aid of
tricorders or phasers, Riker, his royal charge, and their would-be
rescuers must fight for their lives with the only weapons they can muster
- spears and bat'leth, tooth and claw!
Title: Diplomatic
Implausibility
Writer(s): Keith R.
A. DeCandido published, Feb. 2001 Vol. #
61
200 Years ago; the expanding Klingon
Empire found a frozen world rich in deposits of the mineral topaline. The
named the planet taD - Klingon for "Frozen" and the called the people
"jeghpu'wl" - Conquered. Four years ago: the
Klingon Empire invaded Cardassia, breaching the Khitomer Accords and
causing a break with the Federation. TontaD, deplete Klingon forces were
overthrown in a small coup d'etat, and the victorious rebels took
advantage of the disruption to appeal for recognition from the Federation.
Now: the Klingons have returned to taD and
re-established their control. But the stubborn rebels insist on Federation
recognition. A solution to the diplomatic impasse must be found, a taask
that falls to the Federation's new ambassador to the Klingon Empire -
Worf.
Worf thinks of himself as a
fighter, not a negotiator, but the Federation disagrees. Now, for the sake
of the Federation and the Empire a Klingon warrior must weave a fragile
peace out of a situation ripe for war!
Title: Maximum Warp, book 1 of
2
Writer(s): Dave Galanter and
Greg Brodeur published, March, 2001, Vol #
62
Interstellar civilization depends on
the twin blessings of warp travel and subspace communications. but now an
unknown force is disrupting subspace throught the galaxy, creating "Dead
Zones" in which advanced technology will not function. Ships are stranded
in space, unable to communicate. Colonies are losing life support.
Governments can no longer negotiate with their allies - or there enemies.
Worse yet, the dead zones are proliferating at a geometric rate. Unless a
solution is found, the entire Alpha Quadrant may be doomed to a new dark
age!
In the wake of the Dominion War, a
tenuous peace exists between the Federation and the Romulan Empire. The
uneasy alliance is strained to the breaking point, how3ever, by the enigma
that is destroying subspace. Now Captain Jean-Luc Picard and Ambassador
Spock join forces with an infamous Romulan war criminal is a desperate
attempt to find the source of the disruption - even if it means
sacrificing the very peace they hope to save!
Title: Maximum Warp, book 2 of
2
Writer(s): Dave Galanter and
Greg Brodeur published, March, 2001, Vol. #
63
A mysterious cosmic force is
destroying the very fabric of subspace, rendering warp travel and
interstellar communication impossible thought scattered regions of the
galaxy. Even worse, these "dead zones" are spreading rapidly, bringing the
entire Alpha Quadrant to the brink of a new dark age. Only Captain
Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Starship EnterpriseTM stand a chance of reversing the decay by tracking
the disruption to its ultimate
origin.
Beyond the bondaries of the
Federation, deep in uncharted space, Picard and his treacherous Romulan
allies have discovered the source of the crisis: a vast alien mechanism
suspended between a black hole and a nearby inhavited planet. The ancient
device is all that prevent the imperiled planet from disappearing into the
voracious black hole, but its cataclysmic effects are eroding subspace as
speeds faster than light. Now Picard faces a wrenching dilemma: must he
sacrifice an entire world to save the galaxy?
Title: The Genesis Wave, Book 1 of 3
Writer(s): John Vornholt, published April 2001
Intended to create life from nothingness, the Genesis Device had the potential to become a
weapon of awe-inspiring destructiveness, capable of rearranging matter and
life energy on a planetary scale. After the cataclysmic explosion of the
Genesis Planet, and the Klingon Empire's attempt to steal the top-secret
technology. Starfleet wisely decided to destroy all data and records on
Project Genesis, hoping to bury its deadly secrets
forever.
But now a mysterious wave of
energy is sweeping across the Alpha Quadrant, transforming matter on a
molecular level to create bizarre new landscapes and life-forms. Billions
of living beings and hundreds of inhabited worlds lie in the path of the
mutagenic wave, which is expanding outward toward
Earth.
To discover the origin of the
wave, Captain Picard and his crew must probe long-buried mysteries. But
even if he can uncover the shocking history of the Genesis Vave, is there
any way to save the future from its unleashed fury?
Title: The Genesis Wave, Book 2 of
3
Writer(s): John Varnholt,
published in hardback 2000, in paperback Dec.
2001
Like an unstoppable cosmic storm,
the dreaded Genesis Wave sweeps across the Alpha Quadrant, transforming
planets on a molecular level and threatening entire civilizations with
extinction.
To combat the rushing terror
of the wave, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Starship
EnterpriseTM have been forced into a tense
alliance with the Klingon and Romulan Empires, both of which crave the
forbidden secrets of the Genesis technology for themselves. Now the finest
minds of three civiliations must race against time to find some way to
halt the deadly wave before yet another world in transformed into somethin
alien and unrecognizable.
Title: Rogue, Section
31
Writer(s): Andy Mangels and
Michael A. Martin, published June,
2001
Section 31: They are the
self=appointed protectors of the Federation. Amoral, shrouded in secrecy,
answerable to no one, Section 31 is the mysterious covert operations
division of Starfleet, a rogue shadow group committed to safeguarding the
Federation at any cost.
Six months before
their ultimate battle against the Borg for the fate of Earth, Captain
Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the U.S.S. EnterpriseTM face a very different kind of crisis. A world in
turmoil becomes a focal point of conspiracies and betrayal as an
unexpected reunion brings with it startling revelation. Old friend become
bitter enemies, and one young officer reaches a crossroad when he's forced
to choose between the greater good of the Federation and the ideals for
which it stands.
No law, no
conscience, no stopping them.
Title: The
Valiant
Writer(s): Michael Jan
Friedman, published December, 2001
Three
hundred years ago, the U.S.S. Valiant was destroyed during
an ill-fated attempt to cross the legendary Galaactic Barrier. Starfleet
had always assumed that the Valiant had perished with all
hands aboard, until a pair of unusual humanoids arrive at Starbase 209,
claiming to be the descendants of a handful of Valiant
survivors who found refuge on an M-Claass planet beyond the
barrier.
Even more shocking, the visitors
warn that a hostile alien species, the Nuyyad, are preparing to invade the
galaxy! Uncertain of how much of the strangers' story to believe,
Starfleet orders the U.S.S. Stargazer to investigate at
once.
Lieutenant Commander Jean-Luc
Picard is second officer on the Stargazer. He is a young man
who has yet to command a vessel of his own, he soon develops a special
bond with one of the visitors, a strikingly beautiful woman who has
inherited mysterious psychic abilities from her alleged Starfleet
ancestors. But can Picard truly trust her?
Title: Immortal
Coil
Writer(s): Jeffrey Lang,
published February, 2002
He is perhaps
the ultimate human achievement: a sentient artificial life-form,
self-aware, self-determining, possessing a mind and body far surpassing
that of his makers, and imbued with the potential to evolve beyond the
scope of his programming. Created by one of the most brilliant and
eccentric intellects the Federation has ever known, the android Data has
alway beieved he was unique, the one true fulfillment of a dream to create
children of the mind.
But is
he?
Investigating the mysterious
destruction of a new android created by Starfleet, Data and the crew of
the U.S.S. EnterpriseTM uncover startling
secrets stretching back to the galaxy's dim past. That knowledge is
coveted by beings who will stop at nothing to control it, and will force
Data to redefine himself as he learns the hidden history of artificial
intelligence.
Title: A Hard
Rain
Writer(s): Dean Wesley Smith,
published March, 2002
Captain Jean-Luc
Picard has long enjoyed playing the part of Dixon Hill, a hard-boiled
private eye straight out of American pulp fiction. His holographic
excursions into 1940's San Francisco, a colorful world of gunplay and
gangsters, provide a welcome diversion from his helty responsibilities as
a Starfleet captain.
But not this
time!
The Starship
EnterpriseTM has lost power and control,
its own momentum carrying it ever deeper into a dangerous zone of warped
space and time. And the only way out is hidden somewhere in the mean
streets and back alleys of old Frisco. But so is a cold-blooded
murderer>>
Now Dixon Hil, alias
Captain Picard, must get to the bottom of a tangled mystery that threatens
the lives of everyone aboard the EnterpriseTM!
Title: Gauntlet, book 1, of
Stargazer
Writer(s): Michael Jan
Friedman, published May, 2002
Long Before
the Command of the Starship Enterprise TM,
Captain Jean-Luc Picard led another proud vessel through the uncharted
regions of the galazy; the U.S.S. Stargazer. Thrust unexpectedly into the
center seat, the twenty-eight year old Picar must live up to the
challenges of starship command - and a crew that hasn't yet learned to
trust him.
The pirate known as the White
Wolf has been wreaking havoc across several sectors, and the inexperienced
Picard has been given the assignment to stop him. Surprised at getting
such a challenge, Picard soon learns that he is expected to fail in his
duty and have his captaincy disgraced before it can even
begin.
Given an untested crew and an
impossible mission, Picard must beat the odds and apprehend the White Wolf
- but the pirate keeps a shocking secret that leaves Picard to make a
deadly decision.
Title: Progenitor, book 2 of
Stargazer
Writer(s): Michael Jan
Friedman, published May, 2002
Thirty
years before the days of Star Trek: the Nex Generation TMCaptain Jean-Luc Picard was thrust unexpectedly
into command of another proud vessel: the U. S. S. Stargazer. Surrounded
by a crew he doesn't entire know or trust, the young Picard must answer
the challenges of leadership.
While
Picard and his senior staff accompany Chiel Engineer Simenon to his
homeworld of Gnala to undergo a ritual, his second officer, Victoria wu,
is left in command of the Stargazer. Responding to a distress call from a
nearby star system, Wu finds herself in the middle of a mystery involving
a damaged ship and a peculiar interstellar phenomenon - one that threatens
to destroy the Stargazer if she can't learn its
secret.
Meanwhile, on Gnala, Picard must
help his friend undergo the ritual - and find out who is trying to
sabotage their chances of completing it before they're all
killed!
Title: The Genesis Wave book 3 of 3
Writer(s): John Varnholt, published February 2003 in paperback, in 2002 in hardcover.
The fearsome progeny of forbidden
technology, the Genesis Wave swept across the Alpha Quadrant, creating
new life at the expense of everything that lay in its path. Only
through the valiant efforts of Captain Picard and his crew was the Wave
halted, and the cataclysmic threat ot the Federation averted. Or So it seemed.
In the harrowing aftermath of the crisis,
the Genesis Device falls into the hands of a dangerous religious
zealot. But that disaster may pale beside an even more dire emergency,
as Data develops a disturbing theory regarding the full cosmic
consequences of the Genesis Effect: Can life truly be created from
nothing, or must the entire Galaxy pay a terrible price for what
Genesis has wrought?
Title: Do Comets Dream?
Writer(s): S. P. Somtow, published July, 2003
Every five thousand years, so the people
of the planet Thanet believe, the world ends in fire and a new cycle of
creation begins. Now the Last Days are once again upon them, and a
fiery star draws near. This is the Death-Bringer, the Eater of the
World, whose coming heralds the end of all things...
But to Captain Picard and the crew of the Starship EnterpriseTM,
the Death_Bringer appears to be nothing but a rogue comet, easily
destroyed. Picard faces a difficult dilemma: how can he save the
Thanetians' rich and intricate civilization without destroying the very
beliefs upon which their culture is based?
This quandary is challenge enough, yet
the captain's position becomes even more complicated when Deanna Troi
discovers that, incredibly, the comet is alive!
Title: Stargazer:Three
Writer(s): Michael Jan Friedman, published August, 2003
Identical twins Gerda and Idun Asmund
lost their human parents early in life and were raised as warriors on
the Klingon homeworld. They were taught to face every danger shoulder
to shoulder - regarding each other as the only certainty in a dangerous
and uncertain universe.
The Asmunds continued to depend on each other as helm officer and navigator on the Starship StargazerTM, peril and adversity forging a bond between them as strong as tritanium.
But that bond is tested when a transporter mishap deposits a mysterious visitor on the Starship StargazerTM - a beautiful woman from another universe who resembles Gerda and Idun as closely as they resemble each other.
As Captain Jean-Luc Picard pits the Starship StargazerTM
against a savage alien species in a gallant attempt to send their
visitor home, Gerda comes to suspect the woman of treachery. But she
has to wonder - is she following her Klingon instincts of succumbing to
simple jealousy?
Gerda has to find out - before Picard and his crew pay for their generosity withy their lives.
Title: Stargazer:Oblivion
Writer(s): Michael Jan Friedman, published September, 2003
In 1893 a time-traveling Jean-Luc Picard
encountered a long-lived alien named Guinan, who was posing as a human
to learn Earth's customs, During this "First Encounter", Picard saved
Guinan's life, a favor she would never forget.
Five centuries later, Captain Picard, now commander of the Starship EnterpriseTM,
brought Guinan aboard as the ship's "bartender". The hope was that her
wisdom and inner peace would provide a moral grounding for Picard's
crew as the experienced the dangers of space.
Because he hadn't yet made his trip
through time, Picard had no knowledge of his nineteenth-century meeting
with Guinan. But he did remember a different first encounter with the
mysterious El-Aurian - a Tumultuous adventure in which Picard and
Guinan would risk their lives in a maze of interplanetary intrigue,
with the future of the known universe at stake.
This is the story of that fateful
meeting, and of a Guinan very different from the woman we think we know
- a person wracked by pain and longing, shaken to the roots of her soul.
A Guinan who yearns for oblivion.
Title: Stargazer : Enigma
Writer(s): Michael Jan Friedman, published August, 2004
Without warning, a Starfleet ship is
overwhelmed by a mysterious, alien aggressor -- one who appears to
possess an intimate knowledge of the vessel's tactical technology. Then
a second Starfleet ship is attacked, and a third
Twenty-eight year-old Jean-Luc Picard, captain of the U.S.S. Stargazer
a Constellation-class starship - is ordered to help form a desperate
line of defense against the aggressor. But it seems nothing can stop
the aliens' headlong plunge into the heart of the Federation.
Or rather, nothing in front of them can.
Trailing one of the alien attack formations is a tiny Starfleet shuttle
with a half dozen crewmembers aboard. One of them is Picard's first
officer and best friend, Gilaad Ben Zoma.
Another is Arlen NcAteer, the ambitious
admiral who has made it his business to relieve Picard of his command.
Can Ben Zoma and McAteer work together to
unlock the secret of the alien assault? Or will their differences
sabotage their effort and deprive the Federation of its last hope for
survival?
Title: Stargazer : Maker
Writer(s): Michael Jan Friedman, published, September 2004
Ensign Andreas Nikolas, heartsick over the loss of his Mirror Universe
lover, has resigned his post on Jean-Luc Picard's starship, the Stargazer, to seek a home on the freighter Iktoj'ni.
All he wants of his new life is a chance
to forget his troubles. And that's what he gets - until the Iktoj'ni is taken over by a monstrous alien with unbelievable powers and a disdain for all forms of life>
Without saying why, the alien sends the
freighter hurtling toward a part of space inhabited by the Ubarrak, the
Federation's deadliest and most xenophobic enemy. And Nikolas, who
fears that the incident will start a war, can't convince his captor to
turn back.
Picard's only hope of stopping the alien
menance is Serenity Santana - a woman who once abused his trust in the
name of her people's survival. Now she's back, asking for the captain's
trust a second time.
Picard desperately needs Santana's help
in his struggle to save his galaxy. But will she justify his faith in
her - or once again twist it to serve her own shadowy ends?
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