Series
Kirk orders the Enterprise to put in for repairs at the new space station: Starbase 47, also known as Vanguard. When a calamity threatens to compromise Starfleet's continued presence in the region, Kirk, Spock, and several key specialists from the Enterprise must assist Vanguard's crew in investigating the cause of the disaster and containing the damage.
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.
Ancient secrets lie on the fourth planet of the Jinoteur system, and three great rivals are fighting to control it. To keep Jinoteur from falling into enemy hands, the crews of Starbase Vanguard and the U.S.S. Sagittarius must risk everything: friends...loved ones...their own lives. But the sacrifices they make may prove too terrible for them to bear.
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.
On a post-apocalyptic world in the Taurus Reach, undercover Starfleet Intelligence agent Cervantes Quinn finds an ancient Shedai conduit. Unfortunately, the Klingons have found it first and sent an army to claim it. The futures of three great powers are linked by one thing: the mysterious Mirdonyae Artifact. Unless Doctor Carol Marcus and Ming Xiong can unlock its secrets in time, it might destroy them all.
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.
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.
Four great nations - the Federation, the Klingon Empire, the Tholian Assembly, and the Romulan Star Empire - have all taken tremendous risks in their race to learn and control the technologies of the ancient interstellar hegemons known as the Shedai. Now get ready for the mystery of the Taurus Reach to be revealed.
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.