This story is by Simon Hawke. It has 277 pages.
Deep in space you have more adventurers then you can count. Adventures on top of adventures. Startrek has its own unique way of narrating those adventures no matter the size and the time.
Riker was on the bridge and The Enterprise was on its way to Starbase 37 that orbited Artemis 6. This was the first time the Enterprise visited that sector. Riker hadn't been briefed about it since the Academy. It was constructed 37 years ago. He used Datas photographic memory to brief himself.
The residents are related to both Vulcans and Romulans. Gruzinov, the commander in charge of the starbase, was a friemd of Picard. He hadn't seen him in 20 years. Gruxinov was amazed how Data docked the ship. He invited them for a drink. His son is becoming the General in the war like his father was. He didn't get along with anyone, while his father was a pleasure to work with
An old starship, Glory, was being used for an unknown reason. Blaze is her captains name. Geordi said a complete refit to a Constitution class ship would take a very long time. The crew was on The Royal Palace of N'Trahn. The Enterprise was patrolling the sector for unidentified ships.
Lieutenant Dorn, a liason on the ship was all business, he had no sense of humor. She is very young and attractive, however she was lonely and had no friends. She was assisting in the repairs of The Wyoming, captained by Winslow Bryant. They surprisingly had no casualities. The Enterprise towed them. The attacking ship was surprisingly The Blaze.
The ship appeared as an old Constitution class Star Ship with a variety of species on it, Orion, Katralli and human. The odd thing was that they weren't friends at the time whuch meant this must have crossed some sort of time stream. The Katralli was a hybrid of human and Katralli.
Picard ordered Blazes surrender, but he wouldn't. The Enterprise is taking the Glory back to Starbase 39. They were going to make the Romulans go in and violete the neutral zone.
Data was in a holodeck of a sailing ship. Dorn asked Data what he was doing. Dorn was being considered for some undercover work. Picard, Dorn and other crew members went down to the planet
They all refused refreshments. Worf didn't like the smell of the garden when they all went out.
Captain Blaze got a cloaking device illegally. T'grayn was a little rattled when Picard said he had an investigation team. Picard wanted to see Z'gral a hero in the K'tralli revolution but was denied because he was in poor health.
Troi sensed that was a lie. Their comm was open so the bridge heard that conversation. The govenor had a comm to the Romulans open as well. Blaze is the main reason the Federation is here. The governor was encouraging Z'gral to kill his father.
They all played eachother. Troi and Warf beamed down with a few security officers to be the investigators as Picard said he would have. Riker wasn't taken any weapons because if they were found the weapons blow their cover, because merchant spacers never carried weapons.
Stryker, who was the merchant, was giving Riker difficulties because he had a police record.
