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Novels by Dayton Ward 39

Dayton Ward

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2401
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To Defy Fate
2401PICDayton WardApr 2026

In 2401, a Romulan attack on a Starfleet station forces Picard, Beverly Crusher and Raffi Musiker to escape through a portal opened by Wesley Crusher, now a Traveler. He needs their help, and what follows takes them far from their own time. Set after the third season of Picard.

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2369
TNG
Pliable Truths
2369TNGDayton WardMay 2024

2369: the Cardassians agree to end their occupation of Bajor, and Picard is sent to Terok Nor to oversee the negotiations over the withdrawal, while still recovering from his own torture by a Cardassian interrogator. A story that leads into the start of Deep Space Nine.

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Somewhere to Belong
3189DSCDayton WardMay 2023

In the 32nd century, Discovery answers a distress call from a Xahean ship and learns what became of a people the crew last saw in the 23rd century. Their homeworld was ruined long ago, and the survivors are split between keeping their old ways and leaving. Helping them forces the crew to face what they gave up by coming to the future.

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2387
Moments Asunder
2387Coda #1Dayton WardSep 2021

Time is coming apart. Parallel realities are collapsing one after another under attack from an unseen enemy, and an old friend who has spent decades fighting it comes to Captain Picard and the crew of the Enterprise for help. The first book of the Coda trilogy, which brings the novel continuity that began after Nemesis to a close.

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2270
TOS
Agents of Influence
2270TOSDayton WardMar 2020

For years, Starfleet Intelligence agents have carried out undercover assignments deep within the Klingon Empire. After three of Starfleet’s longest serving agents fear exposure, they initiate emergency extraction procedures. Their planned rendezvous with the USS Endeavour goes awry, threatening to reveal their activities and the damaging intelligence they’ve collected during their mission.

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2386
TNG
Available Light
2386TNGDayton WardApr 2019

Section 31 has been exposed. Throughout the Federation, the rogue group’s agents and leaders are being taken into custody as the sheer scope of its misdeeds comes to light. Now Starfleet Command must decide the consequences for numerous officers caught up in the scandal.

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Drastic Measures
2246DSC #2Dayton WardFeb 2018

A contagion is ravaging the food supplies of a remote Federation colony. In the midst of their rescue mission, Georgiou and Lorca must hunt for the architect of a horrific tragedy and the man whom history will one day brand “Kodos the Executioner”.

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2386
TNG
Hearts and Minds
2386TNGDayton WardMay 2017

Continuing their exploration of the Odyssean Pass, the crew of the Enterprise discover a world with a civilization still recovering from the effects of global nuclear war. An astonishing priority message from Starfleet Command warns that there’s more to this planet than meets the eye.

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2386
TNG
Headlong Flight
2386TNGDayton WardJan 2017

A mysterious world is locked into an unending succession of random jumps between dimensions, the result of an ambitious experiment gone awry. The Enterprise crew members and the alien scientists who created the technology find themselves trapped, powerless to break the cycle.

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2268
TOS
Purgatory's Key

The conclusion to the epic trilogy that stretches from the earliest voyages of the Starship Enterprise to Captain Kirk 2019s historic five-year-mission.

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2283
TOS
Elusive Salvation
2283TOSDayton WardApr 2016

The Arctic Circle, 1845: Escaping the tyranny under which their people have lived for generations, aliens from a distant planet crash land on Earth’s. San Francisco, 2283: When a mysterious craft is detected entering the solar system, Admiral Kirk is confronts the vessel. He meets with an emissary from the Iramahl, a previously unknown alien race who have come in search of their brothers and sisters thought to have gone missing in this area of space centuries earlier.

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2269
All That's Left

After a large, unidentified vessel arrives in orbit of Cantrel V and launches a seemingly unprovoked orbital bombardment, the U.S.S. Endeavour responds to the colony’s distress call. As they attempt to render assistance and investi­gate the mysterious ship, Captain Atish Khatami and her crew begin to unlock the astonishing secrets the planet has harbored for centuries.

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2386
TNG
Armageddon's Arrow
2386TNGDayton WardMay 2015

Captain Picard and the crew of the Enterprise discover a massive alien vessel drifting in interstellar space that is actually a weapon capable of destroying entire worlds ... the final gambit in a war that has raged for generations across the nearby system.

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2269
Point of Divergence

Answering the distress call of the U.S.S. Sagittarius - which has crashed on the planet following a fierce battle with the Klingons - Captain Atish Khatami and the crew of the Starship Endeavour must now attempt a rescue mission ... even as they are locked in battle with the evolving, increasingly malevolent Tomol who, if allowed to escape their home world, pose an imminent threat to the entire galaxy!

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2385
TNG
Peaceable Kingdoms

Concerns continue to swell around Bacco’s interim successor, Ishan Anjar. With the election looming, Ambassador Riker dispatches Captain Picard in a desperate attempt to uncover the truth.

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2268
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From History's Shadow
2268TOSDayton WardJul 2013

Following the encounter with the mysterious Gary Seven in the twentieth century, the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise is startled by two intruders who have transported through space and time from Earth circa 1968. Incredibly, one of the infiltrators is a Vulcan, who asserts that he’s lived among Earth's population for over a decade.

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2269
In Tempest's Wake

Through flashbacks intercut with the ongoing conversation between Kirk and Admiral Heihachiro Nogura, Starbase 47’s second and final commanding officer, the Enterprise’s involvement in the last days of Operation Vanguard - and the conflict between Starfleet and Tholian forces at Starbase 47 - is told from the perspective of Kirk and his crew.

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2269
TOS
That Which Divides
2269TOSDayton WardFeb 2012

A science vessel is severely damaged during its mission to the Xondaii system and the Enterprise is dispatched to investigate and render assistance while Kirk, Spock and Sulu collect data on a nearby spatial rift.

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2268
What Judgments Come

Operation Vanguard has risked countless lives and sacrificed entire worlds to unlock the secrets of the Shedai, an extinct alien civilization whose technology can shape the future of the galaxy. Now, Starfleet’s efforts have roused the vengeful Shedai from their aeons of slumber.

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2259
Declassified

Witness the dawn of Starbase 47, as Ambassador Jetanien faces choices that will shape the future of Operation Vanguard ... follow journalist Tim Pennington as he reaches a crossroads in his search for the truth ... see how the crises on two colonies transform the lives of Diego Reyes and Rana Desai ... and travel with Cervantes Quinn to a deadly confrontation that will change everything.

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2266
Open Secrets

The discoveries made in the Taurus Reach have captured the imagination of one of the Federation's most promising scientific minds: Dr. Carol Marcus believes she is close to solving a puzzle that will transform her life's work. Meanwhile, Vanguard's Lieutenant Ming Xiong is confronted with an artifact that could be the key to decoding the Taurus Meta-Genome.

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2363
TNG
The Sky's the Limit

Celebrate the twentieth anniversary of The Next Generation by joining these now-legendary characters for all-new adventures: fourteen stories that span the time from before their earliest voyages through their missions onboard the Enterprise-E.

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2266
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Constellations

Star Trek: Constellations is a mind-blowing collection of specially-commissioned stories designed to go where no anthology has gone before. Each story in this collection takes its inspiration from an element of 'unfinished business' from the original series so that they read like 'lost episodes' of the television show.

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2265
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Things Fall Apart

When a rogue pulsar sweeps through a star system and threatens to destroy all life on a planet, the Federation is faced with a daunting choice: stand by and witness the extinction of a thriving civilization, or violate the Prime Directive and mount a desperate effort to protect the planet. The Enterprise is sent to aid the doomed planet.

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2265
Distant Early Warning

Following the discoveries made by the U.S.S. Constellation in the Taurus Reach, Starfleet has fast-tracked the construction of Starbase 47, a.k.a. Vanguard. The crew of the U.S.S. Lovell must solve Vanguard's technical crises so the base can become operational as planned.

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2265
Summon the Thunder

Deep within the Taurus Reach, an ancient and powerful alien mind has awakened prematurely from aeons of hibernation. The alien lashes out with deadly force against the interlopers, propelling the Vanguard crew on a desperate race to understand the nature of the attacker, and to prevent the Taurus Reach from becoming a war zone.

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2376
Where Time Stands Still

In the wake of an incident involving the Enterprise and the infamous Delta Triangle, Lieutenant Commander Mahmud al-Khaled and the crew of the run-down U.S.S. Lovell must "open" the Triangle -- and also find a lost generation ship that was last seen entering the phenomenon. But the mission grows even more complex when the Gorn arrive.

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2376
Grand Designs

The S.C.E. crew on the U.S.S. da Vinci is sent along with a Federation diplomat to act as weapons inspectors to make sure that the terms of a cease-fire and disarmament are followed. But soon the S.C.E. learns that neither side has any intention of truly disarming -- and then Tev, P8 Blue, and Soloman are captured by one side.

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TNG
A Time to Harvest

Assigned to assist the imperiled Dokaalan, the Enterprise crew must somehow aid this alien race in terraforming a nearby planet so that it might someday provide a new home for their kind. But violent acts of sabotage soon turn a humanitarian crisis into a deadly confrontation.

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TNG
A Time to Sow

The crew of the Enterprise discover the last of the Dokaalan, now only a colony fighting to stay alive in a decrepit asteroid mining complex. Although their home planet was destroyed long ago, the survivors hope to someday transform a nearby planet into a new home for their people

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Home Fires

An engine failure during a routine cargo run leads Corsi to confront her father, who reveals the deadly secret of the death of Corsi's uncle in a shocking tale from the Cardassian War that will change how Corsi views her family - and her relationship with Stevens - forever!

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2376
Foundations, Part 3

A century before the heyday of the da Vinci, an engineering accident on an experimental ship sent Scotty and an S.C.E. team into uncharted space. When a group of hostile aliens demands that they leave or face the consequences, the S.C.E. must work against the clock to repair the ship or face destruction!

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2376
Foundations, Part 2

Over a century before the days of the da Vinci, the Starship Enterprise encountered and deactivated a world-running computer called Landru on Beta III. In the aftermath of the incident, a team of engineers, led by Montgomery Scott, is tasked with getting Beta III back on its feet. But even in "death," Landru's influence can still be felt.

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2376
Foundations, Part 1

One hundred and twelve years before the heyday of the da Vinci, Montgomery Scott took an assignment to the Romulan Neutral Zone to work alongside the crew of the U.S.S. Lovell and her staff from the Starfleet Corps of Engineers. When the repair of one of the Neutral Zone outposts goes horribly wrong, Scotty and the nascent S.C.E. team must work together to keep the outpost in one piece.

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In the Name of Honor
2287TOS #97Dayton WardJan 2002

After discovering that the crew of the U.S.S. Gagarin, a ship destroyed by the Klingons a decade earlier, have been held prisoner for ten years, Captain Kirk and his crew, aided by an unexpected ally, the Klingon Koloth, embark on a dangerous mission deep within enemy territory to free the hostages.

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2376
Interphase, Part 2

With Captain David Gold and an away team trapped on the other side of an interdimensional rift, Lieutenant Commander Kieran Duffy finds himself in command of the U.S.S. da Vinci just as the ship comes under attack by the Tholians. The enemy is armed with a new and improved version of their infamous energy web, and the da Vinci is badly outnumbered, but fleeing the battle means abandoning the captain and the others to an uncertain fate outside this universe.

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Interphase, Part 1

More than a century ago, the U.S.S. Defiant disappeared with all hands into an interspatial rift deep in Tholian territory. Now the derelict ship has been seen drifting in and out of ordinary space, and the Tholian authorities have reluctantly agreed to let Starfleet retrieve the Defiant from the rift. The S.C.E. team uncovers a dangerous secret; an ancient super-weapon has been hidden away within the scarred and lifeless starship.

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TNG
Paths of Disharmony

On a diplomatic mission to Andor, Picard and the crew of the Enterprise-E bear witness to the rank devastation resulting from the Borg invasion. With the reproductive issues that have long plagued the Andorian people reach crisis levels.

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