Exploring a deserted alien spaceship, Lt. Commander Data and Lt. Geordi LaForge suddenly find themselves transported light-years away -- into the middle of a deadly conflict!
While Captain Picard and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise™ search feverishly for the missing crewmen, Data and LaForge discover they are in a station almost identical to the one they were exploring, high in orbit around an earth-type world. Years before, the occupants of that planet accidentally stumbled onto the ship and its advanced technology -- and since then have used its weapons to keep the nations on the planet below disarmed, and at peace.
Now their own arrival has precipitated a crisis on the station. Somehow, data and LaForge must find a way to restore trust between the planet below and the station's guardians up above -- before a final, destructive war breaks out!
After fifteen years as a technical writer on the Apollo programme Gene DeWeese turned freelance in 1974. His more than thirty books range from Star Trek and other series tie-ins (The Man from U.N.C.L.E and Ravenloft among them) to mysteries and occult romance. He is the author of several of the most popular of the early classic Star Trek and Next Generation novels.