Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ship of the Line (US 1st Edition H/B) 1997

STAR TREK:THE NEXT GENERATION - SHIP OF THE LINE by Diane Carey

Revealed at last! The lost years etween STAR TREK: GENERATIONS and STAR TREK: FIRST CONTACT

The Starship Enterprise 1701-D has been destroyed, and Captain Jean-Luc Picard finds himself without a command. While waiting for his new ship, Captain Picard has gone with Lieutenant Worf on a delicate diplomatic mission to the Cardassian Empire.

As Picard conducts high-level negotiations for the return of the Federation prisoners of war, the Starship Enterprise 1701-E is being constructed under the supervision of Captain Morgan Bateson, a veteran of the twenty-third century who spent nearlt ninety years in a pocket universe. Commanding this new Enterprise on what was supposed to be a short shakedown cruise, Captain Bateson has an idea of his own. In defiance of Starfleet Command, he will take Starfleet's newest, strongest starship and strike at the heart of the newly aggreassive klingon Empire.

Captain picard's negotiations proceed smoothgly - until he discovers that a hate-crazed Klingon cammander - Captain Bateson's archenemy from ninety years ago - has taken the Enterprise from Bateson and launched a visious attack on Cardassia Prime. To save the ship and preserve intergalactic peace, Picard must ally himself with his former Cardassian torturer, rely on the legendary skills of one Montgomery Scott, and draw new strength and inspiration from the memory of James T. Kirk.

A FIRST EDITION American hardback published in October 1997 by Pocket Books