基本信息出版社：Star Trek
页码：384 页
出版日期：2005年11月
ISBN：0743491858
International Standard Book Number：0743491858
条形码：9780743491853
EAN：9780743491853
装帧：简装
正文语种：英语
丛书名：Star Trek : New Frontier
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Three years have passed since the events depicted in the novel, Stone and Anvil, and for the past and present crew members of the U.S.S. Excalibur, life has taken many surprising twists and turns. Captain Elizabeth Shelby has been promoted to admiral and heads Space Station Bravo...while her former ship, the U.S.S. Trident, has a new captain. Soleta has left Starfleet to embrace the perils of exploring her Romulan heritage. The powerful Zak Kebron serves as the Excalibur's counselor and head of security. And Mackenzie Calhoun? Well, Mackenzie Calhoun's still who he is.
As Si Cwan, prime minister of the New Thallonian Protectorate, prepares to marry off his sister Kalinda in a politically advantageous pairing that will strengthen his newly restored empire, the bride-to-be is abducted just before the wedding in a calamitous event that threatens to destabilize the entire sector -- especially since Kalinda's abductor is someone all too familiar. As the Excalibur, the Trident, and the entire Thallonian fleet attempt to bring order to their sector of space, no one could ever suspect that a mysterious alien force may also be playing a part in Kalinda's disappearance -- and that the entire galaxy may soon face a long-forgotten enemy.
作者简介 Peter David is a prolific Star Trek author whose novels include IMZADI, TRIANGLE, Q-IN-LAW, Q-SQUARED and the NEW FRONTIER series, featuring Captain Mackenzie Calhoun and the crew of the USS Excalibur, specially created for Pocket Books.
编辑推荐 "Simply surrender and go along for the ride.... This is one of David's most raucous, unpredictable Star Trek novels to date -- a sheer breezy delight to read."
-- Wigglefish.com
文摘 Chapter One
On the day Soleta was reasonably sure she was going to die, she found herself both surprised and not surprised to see Ambassador Spock standing at the far end of her cell.
Every joint, every muscle, every synapse in her body seemed inflamed with pain, and yet she still managed to sit up. She wanted to stand, to look properly formal as the occasion might call for. Try as she might, however, she was unable to gather the strength to do so. So she settled for sitting on the dank floor and simply staring at the tall, lean Vulcan. He, in turn, stared at her. No words passed between them for a good long time.
It was Soleta who finally broke the silence. "Well?" she inquired. "Aren't you going to say it?"
He cocked an eyebrow as she knew he would. "What am I expected to say?"
"I believe the appropriate phrase would be, 'How the mighty have fallen.'"
He pondered that for a moment, and then informed her, "That would not be logical."
"Why not?"
"You were never particularly mighty."
"No," and she slumped her head back against the cell wall. "No, I guess I wasn't."
They remained that way for a time, and then Soleta allowed a small smile.
"Do you find your present situation amusing?" asked Spock.
"Not especially. I'm simply considering the fact that, when we first met, I was in a cell. On Thallon. Do you remember?"
"Of course," Spock said in a tone that indicated it was absurd to think he would forget -- not the incident itself, but anything at all that had ever happened to him in his entire life.
"It is ironic, the way in which life wraps back upon itself," she said. "You and I, trapped in a dungeon on Thallon, prisoners of the royal family. Then we escape, and in later years members of that same royal family wind up on the Federation ship I'm serving on after their family loses power. And now they are no longer a part of my life, nor I of theirs, and I'm back in a dungeon...whi
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