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    Star Trek: Collective Hindsight Book 2
    Star Trek: Collective Hindsight Book 2
    Star Trek: Collective Hindsight Book 2
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    Star Trek: Collective Hindsight Book 2

    By Aaron Rosenberg

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    During the Dominion War, Commander Salek and Lt. Commander Duffy of the S.C.E. dealt with a runaway vessel that was endangering a star system -- a mission from which Salek did not return. Now, a year later, Salek's and Duffy's replacements -- Commander Gomez and Lt. Commander Tev -- are faced with the same runaway ship.
    Facing more than one ghost from the past, can Gomez and Tev succeed where their predecessors failed?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPocket Books/Star Trek
    Release dateNov 17, 2003
    ISBN9780743480840
    Star Trek: Collective Hindsight Book 2
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    Aaron Rosenberg

    Aaron Rosenberg is the best-selling, award-winning author of nearly 50 novels, including the DuckBob SF comedy series, the Relicant Chronicles epic fantasy series, the Areyat Islands fantasy pirate mystery series, the Yeti urban fantasy series, the Dread Remora space-opera series, and, with David Niall Wilson, the O.C.L.T. occult thriller series. His tie-in work contains novels for Star Trek, Warhammer, World of WarCraft, Stargate: Atlantis, Shadowrun, Mutants & Masterminds, and Eureka and short stories for The X-Files, World of Darkness, Crusader Kings II, Deadlands, Master of Orion, and Europa Universalis IV. He has written children's books (including the original series STEM Squad and Pete and Penny's Pizza Puzzles, the award-winning Bandslam: The Junior Novel and the #1 best-selling 42: The Jackie Robinson Story), educational books on a variety of topics, and over 70 roleplaying games (including the original games Asylum, Spookshow, and Chosen, work for White Wolf, Wizards of the Coast, Fantasy Flight, Pinnacle, and many others, the Origins Award-winning Gamemastering Secrets, and the Gold ENnie-winning Lure of the Lich Lord). He is a founding member of Crazy 8 Press. Aaron lives in New York with his family. You can follow him online at gryphonrose.com, on Facebook at facebook.com/gryphonrose, and on Twitter @gryphonrose.

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      Book preview

      Star Trek - Aaron Rosenberg

      Chapter

      1

      Stardate 53852.1—First Officer’s Log, Commander Sonya Gomez, U.S.S. da Vinci. We have encountered a ship known as the Dancing Star, an alien vessel that runs on solar radiation. During the Dominion War, the ship entered the Randall system and suffered a catastrophic buildup of its engines. Had the buildup run its course, it would have caused Randall’s sun to go nova. Rather than endanger Federation outpost R5-3791, which was hidden in one of the system’s asteroids, the alien ship’s captain contained the buildup within the vessel, instantly vaporizing the entire crew. Shortly afterward, the da Vinci was sent to investigate the ship. Commander Salek—my predecessor as first officer and head of the S.C.E. team on the da Vinci under Captain Gold—sacrificed his life in order to save the system from a second catastrophic buildup, and also to keep the knowledge of both the Dancing Star and the outpost from the enemy. After that, the S.C.E. piloted the ship into the sun, which should have destroyed it.

      However, the vessel has turned up in interstellar space, over a hundred light-years from the Randall system. Having familiarized ourselves with the da Vinci ’s previous encounter with the Dancing Star, we are now considering what to do next.

      *   *   *

      Clearly, the situation was more than they could handle.

      Fabian Stevens glared at Tev across the table in the da Vinci’s observation lounge, but the Tellarite ignored him. Sonya Gomez couldn’t stop herself from sighing. The three of them sat along with Captain Gold and P8 Blue, the former at the head of the table, the latter in her specially modified chair at the other end.

      It’s not that simple, Tev, she said, wondering if her second would ever learn. "The original team did a fine job completing their mission, which was to remove the Dancing Star before it endangered the outpost or drew Cardassian attention to its system."

      With all due respect, Commander, I disagree. Tev always managed to make phrases like that condescending, and to turn her title into an honorific rather than something she had earned. They were sent to analyze that vessel, determine its origins and nature, and render it harmless. The fact that it is here now, hurtling rapidly toward a planet, proves they failed.

      And I suppose you would have done better, Fabian shot back.

      Of course, Specialist.

      Well, now’s your chance to prove it. Both of them stopped to look at her, which was something, anyway. The bottom line is that we need to figure this ship out, and fast. And since Salek apparently missed something, we can’t just rely upon his observations.

      He did figure out how the ship worked, Pattie offered, and Sonya nodded.

      At least well enough to get it operational, and to vent its fuel cells, yes. But he must have missed something. That doesn’t mean he did a bad job—he didn’t have a lot of time to study the ship fully. But we don’t have to worry about giving away someone’s position, and we don’t have the distractions of a major interstellar war. Our job is to stop this ship completely, once and for all.

      Gold leaned forward. So how do you plan to do that, Gomez?

      I’m not sure yet, sir. But I think, to start with, that we need a fresh look at this ship. Tev and I are the only two who weren’t on the team the first time around, so we’re going to beam over. I want to examine it fully, and build our own theories, based only upon what we find. We can compare that to Salek’s data later. She glanced at the rest of her team. While we’re doing that, I want the three of you to go back over the original material. Look for anything you might have missed the first time, about where this ship came from and how it works. Find out why it was out here, who the captain was—anything you didn’t feel was crucial to the mission then. Any bit of information could be the key we need.

      Gold nodded. Fresh perspectives, and a resifting of old material. Sounds like a plan. We should be within transporter range now.

      Pattie, how much time do we have before the ship hits something?

      The Nasat checked her padd. Twenty-three hours, Commander. Then it slams into Riallon IX, which has a population of twenty-one million.

      Right. So we have twenty-two hours to figure this thing out and shut it down.

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