Star Trek: The Next Generation (literary sequel based on Nemesis)

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Star Trek: The Next Generation , the series of fiction books, consisting mainly of novels, will continue the television series Spaceship Enterprise: The Next Century after the plot of the fourth film based on the television series Nemesis . The novels differ from the volumes dealing with Nemesis up to and including Nemesis mainly in that they have a partially new ensemble of characters. The main location remains the spaceship USS Enterprise NCC-1701-E, introduced in the second movie The First Contact . To the other, even after Nemesis acting Star Trek -Romanreihen include titanium and Deep Space Nine . There were novels and novel cycles that form crossovers to these novel series, including Star Trek: Destiny . The novels have been published in English since 2005 by the Imprints Pocket Books and Gallery Books of the US publisher Simon & Schuster and in German since 2009 by the Cross Cult publisher . They are usually published both in print and as an e-book . At least the first volume, Tod im Winter , was also published in German as an audio book .

characters

Human, unless otherwise stated:

  • Captain: Jean-Luc Picard
  • First Officer: Worf (Klingon)
  • Chief engineer, from around 2382 also second officer: Geordi La Forge
  • Chief Medical Officer: Dr. Beverly Crusher
  • Second Officer (2380/81): Miranda Kadohata
  • Ship advisor:
    • 2380: T'Lana (Vulcan)
    • from 2380: Hegol Den ( Bajoraner )
  • Security chief
    • 2380: Lio Battaglia
    • 2380: Zelik Leybenzon
    • 2380-84: Jasminder Choudhury
    • from 2384: Aneta Šmrhová
  • Science Officer : Dina Elfiki
  • Contact specialist : T'Ryssa Chen (Vulcan, human)
  • Cardassian Exchange Officer : Glinn Dygan

Title overview

The novels are arranged according to the main plot time.

language English German
publishing company Pocket Books, Gallery Books Cross Cult
author title Publ. Miniseries No. in
miniseries 		No. title Publ. Miniseries Year of
action 		comment
Michael Jan Friedman Death in winter  Sep 2005 1 Death in winter  Sep 2009 2379
JM Dillard Resistance  Aug 2007 2 resistance  Nov 2009 2380
Keith RA DeCandido Q&A  Sep 2007 3 Quintessence  Jan. 2010 2380
Peter David Before Dishonor  Nov 2007 4th Heroic death  March 2010 2380
Christopher L. Bennett Greater than the sum  July 2008 5 More than the sum  May 2010 2380/81
William Leisner Losing the Peace  June 2009 6th Lose the peace  March 2011 2381
David A. McIntee Indistinguishable From Magic  March 2011 7th Indistinguishable from magic  Dec. 2013 2383
David Mack The Persistence of Memory  Oct. 2012 Cold Equations 1 8th The persistence of memory  June 2015 Cold calculation 2384 u. a.
David Mack Silent weapons  Nov. 2012 2 9 Silent weapons  July 2015 2384
David Mack The Body Electric  Dec 2012 3 10 Diabolus ex Machina  Aug 2015 2384
James Swallow The Stuff of Dreams  March 2013 The stuff dreams are made of  Dec 2016 2384 Individually only as an e-book. Also printed as part of the 3 Captains, 3 Stories volume .
Jeffrey Lang The Light Fantastic  June 2014 11 The light of the imagination  May 2016 2385
Rudy Josephs Q are Cordially Uninvited  Oct. 2014 Q are cordially invited  Feb 2017 2380 Only as an e-book.
John Jackson Miller Takedown  Feb. 2015 hunt  March 2017 2386
Dayton Ward Armageddon's Arrow  June 2015 The arrow of fate  June 2017 2386
Dayton Ward Headlong Flight  Feb 2017 crash  May 2019 2386
Dayton Ward Hearts and Minds  May 2017 Heart and mind  Dec 2019 2386
Dayton Ward Available light  Apr. 2019 Available light  Sep 2020 2386
David Mack Collateral Damage  Oct. 2019 collateral damage  Oct. 2020 2387

Contents

Death in winter

Many years ago, Dr. Crusher's friend Bobby on their home planet Arvada III is infected with the viral disease "blood fire", which was brought in by refugees from Kevrata. As he died, Bobby felt like he was in wintry cold. Kevrata is one of the outer worlds of the Romulan Empire and is suppressed by the Romulan government. In the present (2379) the blood fire is rampant on Kevrata, several residents have already died. Since the Romulans fail to provide any assistance, Dr. Crusher, now the new head of Starfleet's medical department, goes on a secret mission to Kevrata to synthesize an antidote. However, she is captured by Sela , the half-human, half-Romulan woman who is in command of Kevrata and Dr. Crusher plans to kill. After Picard learns that Dr. Crusher is missing, he and some helpers go on a secret rescue mission. Meanwhile, there is a power struggle on Romulus for the function of ruler. After Dr. Crusher has found out in custody that the blood fire is also affecting ordinary Romulans, the Romulan spy Manathas brings the prisoners to safety from Sela. The doctor Greyhorse, part of Picard's team, develops an antidote for the blood fire. Dr. Crusher is able to free himself from the violence of Manathas with the help of the Kevratan underground fighters. At the meeting of Dr. Crusher with Picard and his team have a combative confrontation with Sela, from which the Starfleet officers emerge victorious. Crusher and Picard continue their love affair. That's why Crusher returns to the Enterprise-E as chief physician.

resistance

Picard mentally hears the voice of the Borg collective again. As a result, he notices that a Borg cube is waiting on the edge of the Alpha Quadrant until a new Borg queen will be created on it, under whose direction a Borg attack on the Federation is planned. Because it only takes a few hours to complete the Borg Queen, Picard disregards Admiral Janeway's order to wait for the arrival of Seven of Nine for an official mission and immediately lets the Enterprise fly to the Borg cube . An away team sent to destroy the queen cannot achieve its goal, and security chief Bataglia is assimilated . In contrast to the past, the Borg now attack immediately upon enemy contact. Picard can then be transformed into Locutus again by Crusher, but at the same time a neutralizer chip is implanted to prevent complete assimilation by the Borg. As a locutus, he infiltrates the Borg cube, but is quickly discovered, deprived of the chip and integrated into the collective. While the time until the queen is completed is becoming increasingly scarce, substitute commander Worf has the drive and saucer sections separated and camouflaged to fly to the cube. He leads another away team that is embroiled in a loss-making head-to-head battle with the Borg. After Crusher has injected androgens into the queen to avert her danger, the queen turns back into a drone and the Borg collective including Locutus is put to sleep. Bataglia cannot be retrieved. Locutus is converted back to Picard on the Enterprise. This threatens a military court case for insubordination.

Quintessence

While the new crew members Choudhury, Leybenzon and Kadohata are familiarizing themselves with their new living and working environment, the Enterprise goes into the Gorsach system for research purposes. While exploring the planet Gorsach IX, the Enterprise field team notices a cave that cannot be entered due to a mysterious force field. Q soon appears on the Enterprise and annoys the command officers again with puns, insults and indirect questions. Q denies being responsible for the riddle on Gorsach IX and challenges Picard to investigate the riddle. The Enterprise soon learns from the Starfleet Admiralty that spherical cracks in space are opening across the galaxy and that spaceships are disappearing as a result. The epicenter of the pattern with which the cracks appear is in the Gorsach system. Q now claims that Worf's wrong step led to the appearance of the cracks at the cave and that it was a universe-wide catastrophe. Picard leads an away team on Gorsach IX and is brought by Q into the white beyond, in which he was already in a life-threatening situation. There he is the silent observer of the events in reality. In it, Worf is confronted with the Enterprise again with the phenomenon that he has already got to know and in which he finds himself in a parallel universe with lots of other Enterprises. Q puts Picard before the tribunal, before which he once had to answer. Picard learns there that the problems with the space rifts and the parallel universe are the last of Q's tests that he has put Picard. Q says Picard mastered the paradox that earned him the right to be judged.

Heroic death

Starfleet believes that the Borg cube recently discovered by the Enterprise is no longer life. Admiral Janeway flies the USS Einstein to the cube to research it. The assumption turns out to be wrong when Janeway and the Einstein crew are assimilated onto the cube by the Borg. Janeway becomes a bald, tight-fitting leather borg queen. It turns out that the Borg have evolved and no longer just assimilate living things and technology, but also absorb them . With the Einstein in tow, the cube quickly approaches the earth. On the way it absorbs several Starfleet spaceships and crews as well as the planet Pluto and its moons . During the absorption process, the cube, the number of Borg drones and thus the cube's impact significantly increase. Meanwhile, Seven of Nine senses that something is wrong with Janeway, and therefore sets off on her own from the solar system to the Enterprise-E, which is currently visiting the planet Vulcano . The Borg Queen, threatening an attack on Earth, demands the extradition of Picard and Seven of Nine to the Borg in order to assimilate both again. Picard flies with the Enterprise to Epsilon Gamma V to activate the planet killer or the doomsday machine as a weapon against the cube. With that he again defies the order of the Starfleet Admiralty. Therefore, on the way there is a mutiny on the ship, in which Kadohata, Leybenzon and T'Lana snatch command from the captain and imprison him, Spock , Seven of Nine and some senior officers. The rebels give up the mutiny when they need the prisoners to activate the planet killer. Seven of Nine creates a mental connection to the planet killer and can thus control it as a pilot. She flies him to earth with the Enterprise in the tractor beam and lets him attack the cube. The planet killer is defeated and is absorbed by the cube. Therefore, Seven of Nine places the virus that was once developed from the “Endgame” project in the Borg collective as an alternative plan. This causes the cube including the Borg queen to self-destruct. Seven of Nine barely escapes the explosion. The assimilated Einstein escapes annihilation unnoticed by Starfleet.

More than the sum

Starfleet spaceship USS Rhea is exploring a carbon planet in the star cluster NGC 6281 when it is ambushed by spaceship Einstein, a Borg-controlled spaceship that is apparently cut off from the Borg collective. The Rhea crew member T'Ryssa is the only one to escape the attack. This is made possible by a being that is called a cluster entity in the following and consists of so-called cluster constructs (also: Noh angels). The creature uses its quantum slipstream ability , a particularly fast locomotion technique that the Federation believes the Borg are not capable of. The Borg assimilate a large part of the Rhea crew and hijack the spaceship. Starfleet instructs Picard to do everything possible with the Enterprise to prevent the Borg from accessing the Slipstream technology. On the lengthy flight to the star cluster, several new Enterprise crew members who succeed Leybenzon, Kadohata and T'Lana, who were eliminated as a result of the mutiny, are introduced to their roles. During the flight, the Enterprise meets the spaceship Liberator, which is commanded by the former Borg Hugh. The kite-like cluster entity appears on the Enterprise in the form of its constructs and is primarily concerned with obtaining information about the reproductive behavior of the crew. Enterprise and Liberator finally meet the Einstein, who is now called Frankenstein by Starfleet because of the numerous absorptions. The two ships defeat the Frankenstein cooperatively and with the use of the so-called multi-vector warfare agent. Picard appeals to the cluster entity helping the Borg that the Borg are not worth protecting because they cannot produce offspring, and thereby enables the two ships to fight the Borg.

T'Ryssa remains on the Enterprise as a new crew member. It turns out that Dr. Crusher is expecting a child from her new husband Picard.

At the beginning of 2381, a Borg cube suddenly raids the two Federation worlds Barolia and Acamar, wiping out the inhabitants of the planets. The Borg of the Cube give notice to to the Federation that it will be destroyed and that its biological and technological properties have become unimportant. To defend the Earth, the Starfleet Admiralty ordered the Enterprise, the only Starfleet ship equipped with trans-phase torpedoes that could be used against the Borg, back to Earth.

Destiny

The Borg invade through subspace tunnels with thousands of cubes in the alpha and beta quadrants and devastate several worlds of the Federation and the Klingon Empire, killing billions of individuals from these realms. In battles against the Borg and - when exploring the subspace tunnels - the Hirogen, the Enterprise is badly hit, with hulls broken, dead and injured. Desperate, Picard orders to defend the Borg to use the thalaron weapon, which is used for mass destruction, but this is not used because La Forge refuses to obey the captain for moral reasons. T'Lana dies in the Borg attack on Vulcan. A private relationship develops between Worf and Choudhury. When the Borg species are destroyed with the help of the Caeliar species, Picard permanently loses his spiritual connection to the Borg collective.

Lose the peace

After the fighting against the Borg is over, the Enterprise is in space dock in Earth orbit for repairs. Also because of a shortage of staff due to the decimation of Starfleet, only a third of the approximately 30 canceled crew members on the Enterprise can be replaced at short notice. Without being fully repaired, the Enterprise embarks on a rescue, recovery and patrol mission. After numerous Federation planets were devastated by the Borg, there are a number of evacuees, missing persons and refugees. The Enterprise tracks down the ailing Denevan spacecraft Libra, which fled from there with over 2,000 people on board during the devastating attack by the Borg on Deneva. Meanwhile, crew members are trying to determine the extent to which Choudhury is mentally disturbed because of the alleged death of her family on Deneva. Meanwhile, Dr. Crusher with a small team, including Kadohata, to the planet Pacifica. The local Selkies living there feel overwhelmed by a large number of refugees who do not belong to their species. Crusher's team is evaluating the situation and providing medical aid to the refugees. When the situation worsens over a dispute between Selkies and refugees, Crusher calls on the Enterprise for help. Picard therefore breaks off the task assigned to him to mediate due to unrest in the federation world Alpha Centauri and takes the head of government with him to Pacifica. In view of the conditions on Pacifica, he is convinced to refrain from leaving the Federation, which he had previously threatened with because of self-perceived neglect by the Federation. Admiral Akaar, the new commander-in-chief of Starfleet, offers to promote Picard to admiral in view of his services. However, Picard declines because he would rather remain captain of the Enterprise. The refugees from Pacifica and other devastated worlds are settled on the planet Ingraham B. Kadohata leaves the Enterprise and is transferred to the Department for Displaced People.

Meanwhile, the so-called Typhon Pact, an alliance of Gorn, Romulans, Tzenkethi, Breen, Tholians and Kinshaya, which poses a threat to the Federation.

Typhon Pact

An enterprise team around Picard helps in 2382 with the reconstruction work and with the security precautions on Andor for a high-profile conference, in which it comes to the state of research regarding the Andorian reproductive problem. Due to the indirect influence of the Typhon Pact species Gorn, the Andorians mistrust grows. of the Federation, so that Andor leaves the Federation. In the following year the Enterprise tries diplomatically to prevent the Tzenkethi from rearming on the border between the Typhon Pact and the Federation area. Picard and Crusher have long been the parents of a son named René.

Indistinguishable from magic

The Enterprise finds the wreck of the Starfleet spaceship Intrepid NX-07 that was declared destroyed in the 2160s. The USS Challenger, to which La Forge is temporarily assigned, is used to rescue and examine the ship. The Galaxy-class Challenger is commanded by Montgomery Scott. Soon bandits led by Ferengi Bok stole the Intrepid. With the Intrepid, Bok embarks on a cosmic string and thus on a journey back in time to the 22nd century, in which he wants to undo the death of his son. In an unsuccessful attempt to prevent Bok's flight, Scotty is injured, so he transfers command of the Challenger to La Forge. A little later you find out that the disappearance of the Intrepid in the 22nd century can be attributed to the appearance of a so-called trans-slipstream wave.

Meanwhile, the Romulans have learned of the matter and view the time travel opportunity as a Federation threat to their empire. When the Romulan spaceship Stormcrow with Sela on board explores the area near where the Intrepid was found, it is hit by a trans-slipstream wave, badly damaged and discovered and evacuated by the Challenger. A little later, the Challenger will also be swept away by such a wave and transported 62 million light years away from the Milky Way . There the ship gets into a gravitational anomaly around a strange object, which turns out to be the Federation spaceship Hera, which once disappeared without a trace with La Forge's mother on board. The Challenger is trapped in a toroidal curvature of the space-time continuum . One finds 47 volcanic survivors of the Hera on a nearby planet, La Forge's mother is long dead. The Challenger communicates with the alien beings, called "Valken", who live in the other part of the two-part universe. They explain the trans-slipstream waves as a feature of their way of traveling, where they thought spaceships like the Intrepid were lifeless debris, and they agree to move more cautiously in the future.

Soon the Romulan spaceship Tomalaks Faust also appears at the Challenger, mainly to get hold of the trans-slipstream technology. In order to get back to the starting point of their journey in the Milky Way, the crews of the Challenger and the Tomalaks Faust work together on the latter spaceship. Only Scotty remains on the Challenger and brings the space-time curve to collapse with it, so that Tomalak's fist can return. The Challenger is destroyed with Scotty on board. The Tomalaks Faust delivers the crew members of the Challenger and the Hera to the Enterprise.

Cold calculation

The android Noonien Soong sacrifices himself to resurrect his son Data. To do this, he transfers the memories and memories of Data stored in B-4 into himself. The further course of the trilogy is about a splinter group of the community of artificial intelligence, whose leader wants to become immortal by connecting to a machine that is destroying the whole galaxy want. In cooperation, Data, Wesley and the Enterprise can keep the machine from doing their job.

The stuff dreams are made of

The Enterprise is helping the spaceship USS Newton explore the Nexus, which is changing course and entering the Kinshaya area in about a month. In order to prevent the Kinshaya from using the power of the Nexus for themselves and against the Federation, Bryant is supposed to destroy the Nexus on behalf of Starfleet Command. Picard's old friend Kolb on the Newton has invented a concept whose application would only render the Nexus harmless for the duration of its passage through the Kinshaya area, but it is not yet feasible due to a lack of maturity. When Enterprise and Newton try to destroy the Nexus with impulse bombardment from the deflector bowls, the Newton experiences feedback and a power failure, which kills Captain Bryant and other crew members. The Enterprise crew arrests the Arcarian Een Norgadd, who admits to being a Kinshaya spy but denies the Newton's sabotage. When Kolb suddenly steals a shuttle, the suspicion arises that he is the saboteur. Picard can be beamed into the shuttle, but neither he nor the Enterprise can stop Kolb from flying into the Nexus. Moments later, two Kinshaya spaceships, which do not belong to the Holy Order, but to the Fundamentalists, demand the return of their spy Norgadd from the Enterprise. Picard finds himself in the Nexus, in which Kolb explains to him that after years of planning he fled here to be with his family again. In reality, his family died when the Borg attacked the planet Deneva. Picard does not convince Kolb to leave the Nexus. Back on the Enterprise, Picard takes the initiative to ward off the attacking Kinshaya spaceships and has the concept devised by Kolb implemented. The nexus is sealed by bombardment with verteron particles so that it is permanently surrounded by a verteron resonance membrane. This also makes the nexus useless for the Kinshaya.

Others

The character of the head of security "Aneta Šmrhová" was introduced by David Alan Mack , who gives information in his blog about who should play this role in a possible film adaptation and where the inspiration for the name comes from:

"... and new security chief Lieutenant Aneta Šmrhová should be played by the Czech actress after whom she was named."

- David Alan Mack

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ David Mack: David Mack - My "Next Big Thing". In: davidmack.pro. December 19, 2012, accessed October 2, 2017 .