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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: 3/1990
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: 8/1992
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: One Small Step, Gateways #1 of 7
Writer(s) Susan Wright published August 2001, Gateways concept by John J. Ordover and Robert Greenberger
Scattered throughout the galaxy are Gateways capable of transporting matter and energy across unfathomable distances. Left behind by a long-vanished civilization, the mysterious portals offer a mean of exploration - or conquest - many times faster than warp travel. The technology responsible for the Gateways has been lost for at least 10 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 artificial planetoid in hopes of discovering the secret of an ancient apparatus that has hurled the StarShip EnterpriseTM over nearlay a thousand lightyears. Unfortunately, the reactivated 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: Chainmail, Gateways #2 of 7,
Writer(s): Diane Carey, published August, 2001. Gateways concept by John J. Ordover and Robert Greenberger
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 they may also provide a 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, already struggling to maintain peace in the troubled sector, must now cope with a fleet of hostile aliens driven by their own fanatical agenda!
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?
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?
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