Trekkers will love this novel's premise: The crew from Star TrekR: The Next Generation crosses paths with the original Star TrekR crew when they all fall into some sort of time warp. Publication is timed to coincide with the release of the next Star TrekR movie.
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At last! The long awaited novel featuring both famous crews of the Starship Enterprise
in an epic adventure that spans time and space.
Captain Kirk and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 are faced with their most
challenging mission yet--rescuing renowned scientist Zefram Cochrane from captors who want to
use his skills to conquer the galaxy.
Meanwhile, ninety-nine years in the future on the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D, Picard must
rescue an important and mysterious person whose safety is vital to the survival of the Federation.
As the two crews struggle to fulfill their missions, destiny draws them closer together until past
and future merge--and the fate of each of the two legendary starships rests in the hands of the
other vessel...
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Star Trek: The Next Generation - Federation [Box set] [Enhanced] [Soundtrack]
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Three centuries, two captains, one man, no room for error.......2005-02-01
It is therefore fitting that Lenard, who died in 1996, should present this story that encompasses not just the "Star Trek" era but also the "Next Generation" era AND what might be called a "pre-Star Trek" era, and he does it with such dignity that "Federation" has ranked amongst my favorite audio novels based on the "Star Trek" series (he also read, appropriately enough, "Sarek" by J. M. Dillard).
Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens give more background to the character of Zefram Cochrane, who invented warp drive. He was seen in the guise of actor James Cromwell in the film, "Star Trek: First Contact" (1996), but this story makes no reference whatsoever to this movie or to the flight of the "Phoenix", his first warp drive vessel seen in that movie.
Instead, Cochrane is seen not so much as an inventor of warp drive, but as an idealist who mistakenly believes that human conflict will end owing to the fact that his "super-impeller", as he refers to it, should open up the galaxy. "Wars are fought over resources," he says to his financial backer. "There's no end to resources now!" However, Cochrane has inadvertently made an enemy out of the fanatical Colonel Adric Thorson, the leader of the Optimum Movement in occupied Britain, who will stop at nothing to possess what Cochrane claims is impossible: the "warp bomb".
After being captured by Thorson and freed by friends, Cochrane is forced to flee Britain - and Earth - shortly before the outbreak of World War III in 2078. He ends up living a peaceful life on Centauri B-II for the next 39 years until, much to his shock, Thorson returns. He is forced to flee again, only he ends up on a planetoid thanks to an entity known as "The Companion". Thanks to him not aging, Cochrane would meet Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock and Dr. McCoy (in an episode of the original TV series) over a century later.
Now, six months after that meeting, Cochrane has been kidnapped and Kirk has to go after him, albeit under the intense scrutiny of a high-ranking Starfleet officer, who has her own motives for wanting Cochrane to be kept out of the wrong hands. After Cochrane is rescued by Kirk, the "Enterprise" encounters what appears to be Thorson, except that he was no longer human. Thorson threatens to destroy the ship unless Cochrane surrenders, but Kirk devises a plan involving a "singularity" (black hole) in which physical and time dimensions are distorted. Cochrane and the Companion (in the form of a human woman) head for the singularity in an effort to evade capture.
Fast-forwarding to 99 years later, Captain Picard of the "Enterprise-D" encounters a Romulan commander seeking asylum in return for giving the Federation a Borg artifact containing something that had been made billions of years before by long-lost beings. Unfortunately, using Data as a link, the artifact downloads a program that has the "Enterprise-D" racing for the black hole and takes over Data. The android claims to be none other than Thorson, even if, by that time, the human Thorson had supposedly been dead for about 290 years. "The Thorson personality" has only one thing in mind, and it is up to both Picard and Kirk, who have little choice but to enter the black hole, to prevent that from happening, even if it means risking trapping their vessels inside it for infinite time. Will they succeed in rescuing "the passenger" and thwarting the Thorson personality's plans?
The interesting twist here is that the Reeves-Stevens have a slightly different take on the term, "time travel", that was used in the original TV series episode, "Tomorrow is Yesterday" (1967) and the movie, "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home" (1986). If anything, it is almost like the one in "Star Trek: Generations" (1994), where Kirk and Picard (who do meet here, whereas they do not in this novel) end up in the Nexus, a place where time has no meaning.
The only thing that made me scratch my head a little was that, although Kirk and Picard's respective time eras do not change relative to one another when they are in the singularity at the same time, they do manage to co-operate even without apparently communicating with each other, creating an unusual, unspoken synergy between the two vessels. The ending is, of course, predictable, but that does not make the novel any less enjoyable. The late Mark Lenard's reading serves only to enhance the story and he does it a great service.
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