As the crew grieves for Mr. Spock, the awesome Genesis Device, now controlled by the Federation, has transformed an inert nebula into a new planet teeming with life. But Genisis can also destroy existing worlds.
The story begins with the launching of the U.S.S. Enterprise-£ NCC-1701-B and the mysterious disappearance of Captain James T. Kirk. Then seventy-eight years later, Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D receives a distress call from a remote scientific observatory.
Following the harrowing events of the Errand of Vengeance trilogy, tensions escalate. Aboard the Enterprise, Captain Kirk faces new upgrades to the defense systems and an ongoing diplomatic crisis that may light the powder keg that Klingon-Federation relations have become. Original.