Ship
As an enemy from the future tears through the galaxy, Benjamin Sisko and Kira Nerys share a vision of the end of everything. When Starfleet Command refuses to act, Picard gathers trusted allies for a fight they are not supposed to win, and it all comes to a head in the skies over Bajor. Book two of the Coda trilogy.
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.
When renegade Federation starships begin wreaking destruction across the Alpha Quadrant, Captain Picard is shocked to discover that the mastermind behind this sudden threat is none other than Admiral Riker on board the USS Aventine helmed by Captain Ezri Dax.
With countless lives at stake, the leaders of Andor, the Federation, and the Typhon Pact all scheme to twist the crisis to their political gain—at any price. Unwilling to be a mere bystander to tragedy, Doctor Julian Bashir risks everything to find a cure for the Andorians. But his courage will come at a terrible cost: his career, his freedom ... and maybe his life.
Miles O’Brien and Nog have led the Starfleet Corps of Engineers in designing and constructing a larger, more advanced starbase in the Bajoran system. As Captain Ro Laren’s crew prepares to open DS9 to the entire Bajor Sector and beyond, disaster looms. And what of Kira Nerys, lost aboard a runabout when the Bajoran wormhole collapsed?
While Captain Ezri Dax and the crew of the USS Aventine are sent to investigate what is happening at one of the Venette bases, Captain Picard and the Enterprise are assigned to a diplomatic mission to the Venette homeworld in order to broker a mutually acceptable resolution.
A spy for the Typhon Pact—a new political rival of the Federation—steals the plans for Starfleet’s newest technological advance: the slipstream drive. Bashir and Sarina Douglas are sent to infiltrate the Breen, find the hidden slipstream project, and destroy it. Meanwhile Captain Ezri Dax and her crew on the USS Aventine play a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a Typhon Pact fleet.
The Borg are on the march, laying waste to worlds in their passage. An audacious plan could stop them forever, but it carries risks that Picard is unwilling to take. For Captain Ezri Dax there is no going back - only forward to whatever future awaits them.
The Borg have found a secret passage through subspace and are using it to attack the Federation. Meanwhile, Captain Riker and the Titan’s crew are held captive by the reclusive and powerful aliens known as the Caeliar.
The Borg return to wreak havoc upon the Federation - and this time its goal is nothing less than total annihilation. Elsewhere, deep in the Gamma Quadrant, one of Earth's first generation of starships, lost for centuries, has been found.
The Starship Rhea comes under attack from the Einstein, a Starfleet vessel now controlled by the Borg. Starfleet Command gives Captain Picard carte blanche: do whatever he must to help the beings in the cluster, and stop the Einstein no matter the cost.