The Entropy Effect

#27 • A Stitch in Time • Andrew J. Robinson Star Trek: Voyager®

Mosaic • Jeri Taylor

Pathways • Jeri Taylor

Captain Proton: Defender of the Earth • D.W. "Prof" Smith

Novelizations

Caretaker • L.A. Graf

Flashback • Diane Carey

Day ofHonor • Michael Jan Friedman

Equinox • Diane Carey

#1 • Caretaker • L.A. Graf

#2 • The Escape • Dean Wesley Smith & Kristine Kathryn Rusch

#3 • Ragnarok • Nathan Archer

#4 • Violations • Susan Wright

#5 • Incident at Arbuk • John Gregory Betancourt

#6 • The Murdered Sun • Christie Golden

#7 • Ghost of a Chance • Mark A. Garland & Charles G. McGraw

#8 • Cybersong • S.N. Lewitt

#9 • Invasion! #4: The Final Fury • Dafydd ab Hugh

#10 • Bless the Beasts • Karen Haber

#11 • The Garden • Melissa Scott

#12 • Chrysalis • David Niall Wilson

#13 • The Black Shore • Greg Cox

#14 • Marooned • Christie Golden

#15 • Echoes • Dean Wesley Smith, Kristine Kathryn Rusch & Nina Kiriki Hoffman

#16 • Seven of Nine • Christie Golden

#17 • Death of a Neutron Star • Eric Kotani

#18 • Battle Lines • Dave Galanter & Greg Brodeur

Star Trek®: New Frontier

New Frontier#1-4 Collector's Edition • Peter David

#1 • House of Cards • Peter David

#2 • Into the Void • Peter David

#3 • The Two-Front War • Peter David

#4 • End Game • Peter David

#5 • Martyr • Peter David

#6 • Fire on High • Peter David

The Captain's Table#5 • Once Burned • Peter David

Double Helix#5 • Double or Nothing • Peter David

#7 • The Quiet Place • Peter David

#8 • Dark Allies • Peter David

Star Trek®: Invasion!

#1 • First Strike • Diane Carey

#2 •The Soldiers of Fear • Dean Wesley Smith & Kristine Kathryn Rusch #3 • Time's Enemy • L.A. Graf #4 •The Final Fury • Dafydd ab Hugh Invasion! Omnibus• various

Star Trek®: Day of Honor

#1 • Ancient Blood • Diane Carey #2 • Armageddon Sky • L.A. Graf

#3 • Her Klingon Soul • Michael Jan Friedman

#4 • Treaty's Law • Dean Wesley Smith & Kristine Kathryn Rusch

The Television Episode • Michael Jan Friedman

Day of Honor Omnibus • various

Star Trek®: The Captain's Table

#1 • War Dragons • L.A. Graf

#2 • Dujonian's Hoard • Michael Jan Friedman

#3 • The Mist • Dean Wesley Smith & Kristine Kathryn Rusch

#4 • Fire Ship • Diane Carey

#5 • Once Burned • Peter David

#6 • Where Sea Meets Sky • Jerry Oltion

The Captain's Table Omnibus• various

Star Trek®: The Dominion War

#1 • Behind Enemy Lines • John Vornholt #2 • Call to Arms... • Diane Carey #3 • Tunnel Through the Stars • John Vornholt #4 • ...Sacrifice of Angels • Diane Carey

Star Trek®: The Badlands

#1 • Susan Wright #2 • Susan Wright

Star Trek® Books available in Trade Paperback

Omnibus Editions Invasion! Omnibus• various Day of Honor Omnibus • various The Captain's Table Omnibus• various

Star Trek: Odyssey• William Shatner with Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens Other Books

Legends ofthe Ferengi • Ira Steven Behr & Robert Hewitt Wolfe Strange New Worlds, vol. I, II, and III • Dean Wesley Smith, ed.

Adventures in Time and Space• Mary P. Taylor Captain Proton: Defender ofthe Earth • D.W. "Prof" Smith The Lives of Dax• Marco Palmieri, ed.

The Klingon Hamlet• Wil'yam Shex'pir NewWorlds, New Civilizations • Michael Jan Friedman Enterprise Logs • Carol Greenburg, ed.

1

Aleph Prime’s sun had grown large enough to appear in the viewscreen as a disc rather than a point. The crew stood at general quarters, waiting to face some danger as undefined as the singularity that now lay far behind them. The Enterprise approached the mining station with all shields up, phasers at ready, sensors extended to their limits. Kirk still had no more information than the simple implacable command, and he was still restricted by radio silence.

He glanced up at his science officer.

“The star doesn’t look like it’s in imminent danger of going nova,” he said. Incipient nova was one of the very few reasons an ultimate code could be sent out. “That’s some comfort.”

“Considering its position on the main sequence, Captain, this star is unlikely to go nova now or in the foreseeable future.”

“And the other two possibilities are invasion, or critical experimental failure,” Kirk said. “Not an inviting choice.”

“There is one final category,” Spock said.

“Yes,” Kirk said thoughtfully. The unclassified reason, unclassified because unclassifiable: danger never before encountered. “Could be interesting,” he said.

“Indeed, Captain.”

“Mr. Sulu, what are you getting on the sensors?”

“Nothing unusual, sir. A few ore-carriers in transit between asteroids and Aleph Prime, some sailboats—”

“Sailboats!” People out sailing the solar wind, tacking across magnetic fields, out for a quiet picnic—during such an emergency? Kirk found it hard to believe.

“Yes, sir. It looks like they’re having a race. But the course is well out of normal traffic patterns.”

“Thank heaven for small favors,” Kirk said with considerable sarcasm. Hundreds of years had not changed the tradition that an unpowered sailboat, however small, had right of way over a powered ship, though the pleasure boats drifting across the viewscreen would be like motes of dust compared to the Enterprise.