Title: By The Book
Writer(s): Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Kathryn Rusch, published January, 2002
Summary: In their first few weeks in space, Captain Jonathan Archer and the crew of the Enterprise have already discovered several new species and explored strange new worls. But each planet brings new discoveries and new dangers.
The Fazi, whose ultraregulated culture ranges from strict conversation protocols to unvarying building designs, inhabit half of a planet discovered by the Enterprise. But after a disastrous first contact with the ruler of the Fazi, Archer must depend on Vulcan science officer T'Pol and communication specialist Ensign Hoshi Sato to help him mend relations with the people of this planet, and unravel the mystery of the other creatures living on the world.
Title: What Price Honor?
Writer(s): Dave Stern, published, November, 2002
Summary: The Starship Enterprise NX-01 is humanity's flagship - the first vessel to begin a systematic exploration of what lies beyond the fringes of known space. Led by Captain Jonathan Archer, eighty of Starfleet's best and brightest set forth to pave humanity's was among the stars. Tempered by a year's worth of exploration, they are a disciplined, cohesive unit. But now one of their number has fallen.
Bad enough that Ensign Alana Hart is dead.
Worse that she died while attempting to sabotage the Enterprise - and at the hads of Lieutenant Malcolm Reed, the ship's armory officer and her nominal superior. Even as questions swirl around Hart's death, Archer, Reed, and the rest of the Enterprise cre3w find themselves caught squarely in the middle of another tense situation - a brutal war of terror between two civilizations.
But, in the Eris Alpha system, nothing - and no one - are what they seem. And before the secret behind Ensign Hart's demise is exposed, Reed will be forced to confront death one more time.
Title: Surak's Soul
Writer(s) J. M. Dillard, published March, 2003
Summary: You are alone in the dark reaches of space, surrounded by aliens who do not understand who you are and what you are, and who will not accept your beliefs. Under such circumstances, an emotional human would feel lost, cut off, adrift, but Sub-Commander T'Pol is a Vulcan, and Vulcans control their emotions. However, no other Vulcan has served for longer than a few weeks on a human ship. Has she, as others imply, lost her way?
Pulled, once again, into one of Captain Archer's dangerously impulsive attempts to make first contact, the sub-commander finds her life threatened. T'Pol reacts, draws her phaser and kills. It was a simple act of self-defense. But is killing ever simple? Has she forsaken the teachings of Surak?
Determined to be true to her heritage, she forswears violence. She tells Captain Archer that never again will sh kill -even if ordered. Is she, as Archer suggests endangering the entire ship?
Title: Broken Bow
Writer(s)(: Novelization by Diane Carey, written by Rick Berman and Brannon Braga, a bonus behind the scenes section by Paul Ruditis, published, June 2003
Summary: It is the twenty-second century... and the dawn of mankind's boldest adventure. Thanks to an amazing new breakthrough in warp technology, finally an era of true interstellar exploration is about to begin.
Captain Jonathan Archer has been chosen to command the groundbreaking starship EnterpriseTM NX-01. But before the ship can leave Earth's orbit, a mysterious alien - a Klingon - fleeing the attack of another race of aliens is nearly killed on a farm in Broken Bow, Montana. The Vulcan Ambassador Soval suggests that in light of these events Enterprise's departure be postponed. A Vulcan ship, he assures Starfleet Command, will take the body of the Klingon home. Pointing out that the Klingon is still alive, Archer counters that EnterpriseTM is ready and that he will see the Klingon home - alive!
Starfleet gives Archer the assignment with one proviso: a Vulcan observedr, Sub-Commander T'Pol, will work as his science officer. Eager to get under way, the captain reluctantly agrees. It should have been a quick and easy mission, but when the Klingon is snatched out of the ship's sickbay by the Suliban, Enterprise is pulled into a conflict that not only reaches across star systems, but centuries as well.
Title: Daedalus
Writer(s): Dave Stern, published, December, 2003, book 1 of 2
Synopsis: October 5, 2140. After a half-dozen years of research and testing, Starfleet prepares to launch its first warp 5 vessel - Daedalus. Propelled by a radical new engine designed by Earth's most brilliant warp field theorist, Victor rodesser, the new ship will at last put the stars within mankind's reach.
But on the eve of her maiden voyage, a maintenance engineer, Ensign Charles Tucker III _"Trip" to his friends - discovers a flaw in Daedalus's design. When he confronts Brodesser, the scientist - as charismatic as he is brilliant - eases Trip's concerns. The ship launches on schedule, and as Trip watches in horror, it explodes in a catastrophic ion cascade reaction killing all aboard>
Thirteen years pass. Still haunted by memories of that disaster, Trip now serves as chief engineer aboard Enterprise. When a freak explosion cripples his vessel, leaving her helpless before a surprise attack, Trip is forced to abandon his ship - and his shipmates. As he is on the verge of mounting a desperate rescue attempt, however, a shocking turn of events forces him to confront the ghosts of Daedalus one final time.
Title: Daedalus's Children
Writer(s): Dave Stern, published May 2004, book 2 of 2
Synopsis: Crippled by a freak accident, Enterprise has crossed over into an alternate universe - and into the middle of a civil war set off by a brutal warlord who has used technology stolen from the Daedalus to enslave his people.
Forcibly removed from their ship, imprisoned and brutalized by their captors, Captain Archer and the crew soon find themselves confronting an even more immediate challenge than escape - subtle biochemical differences in this universe that make their continued survival an impossibility. Every hour the spend in this parallel continuum brings them closer to death.
Yet Archer discovers that in order to recapture Enterprise, he may have to cripple his ship once again. And even if he manages to find a solution to that dilemma, one last survivor of the doomed flight of the Daedalus stands between Enterprise and her safe return home.
Title: Shockwave
Writer(s): Paul Ruditis, published July 2004
Synopsis: The Starship EnterpriseTM NX-01 has carried its crew farther into the reaches of space than any human has ever travelled. Commanded by Captain Jonathan Archer, they have charted new stars, explored planets, and made first contact with many alien races.
The Paragan deep-space colony was just another first contact, unusual only in two aspects: it was a matriarchal society, and the planet's upper atmosphere was filled with a highly volatile gas. But the officers of Enterprise knew how to handle their shuttlepod, and they understood the Paragan landing protocols. As the shuttlepod descended, the closed the plasma vents, certain that nothing could escape and ignite the gas.
Thirty-six hundred colonists were vaporized in the blast. Every building, every living thing, everything on the surface was destroyed in the fireball. Could the Enterprise crew have caused the destruction?
Recalled, Archer knows that the Vulcan High Command has convinced Starfleet of what they have long insisted. Humans are not ready for deep-space exploration.
But these were not the events as history recorded. No one died. Enterprise was never recalled! This is the startling information offered by the mysterious Crewman Daniels - who claims to be from the 31st. century and a foot soldier in the temporal cold war. Archer sets out to Enterprise's innocence. But time is a swiftly moving river in whose deadly rapids Enterpriseis caught. Is there really anything they can do?
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