For three centuries the people of Alaj and the people of Etolos have been bitter enemies. However, when crippling disasters strike both worlds, each planet becomes the other's hope for survival.With time running out, Captain Picard and his crew are called to negotiate a peaceful settlement and begin rescue efforts. But some factions would rather see both planets perish and will stop at nothing to prevent peace.Soon the U.S.S. Enterprise crew is caught up in a web of...

THE SHADDAN CROWN IS THE KEY TO POWER -- AND THE KLINGONS HAVE THE ADVANTAGE!An Enterprise shuttle is forced to crash-land in a violent storm on the barren planet Sigma 1212. Spock, McCoy and Kailyn, the beautiful heir to the Shaddan throne, survive in the near disaster.Pursued by primitive hunters and a band of Klingon scouts, they must reach the mountain where the fabulous dynastic crown is hidden. With the help of Spock and McCoy, and her own fantastic mental powers, Kaily...

Sent to deliver emergency famine relief to the planet Thiopa -- the Federation's only allies in a critically important sector of space -- the crew finds a brutal dictatorship -- one more concerned with preserving its own powers than protecting its citizens, or the world they all share. Captain Picard is hesitant about turning over the supplies to the corrupt goernment: he fears they may never reach their intended destination. But can he convince the ruling council to change their ways, bef...

Deep DomainA routine diplomatic visit to the water-world of Akkalla becomes a nightmarish search for a missing Spock and Chekov, a search that plunges Admiral Kirk headlong into a corrupt government's desperate struggle to retain power.For both A Federation Science outpost and Akkalla's valiant freedom fighters have begun uncovering the ancient secrets hidden beneath her tranquil oceans. Secrets whose exposure may even mean civil war for the people of Akkalla...

On a routine mission to survey Domarus IV -- a class M world with no intelligent life -- a U.S.S. Enterprise shuttle crewed by Data, Troi and Wesley Crusher is captured by a race called the Tenirans who claim the world for themselves. As Captain Picard tries to negotiate with the captain of the Teniran ship, the shuttle suddenly disappears in a blaze of color and light.Picard demands to know what's happened to the shuttle and its crew, but the Tenarins deny any part in the...

The Better ManWhen the planet Empyrea, a colony of genetically perfected human beings, demands that the Federation remove a science station which has been in place for nearly twenty years, the Starship Enterprise is assigned to transport to the planet the Federation ambassador who negotiated with the Empyreans long ago -- an ambassador who was once Dr. McCoy's closest friend, but is now a bitter rival.On Empyrea, McCoy discovers Anna, a daughter he ...

Collecting four issues of the fan-favorite Star Trek comic books released by DC Comics in the 1990s, written by Howard Weinstein and Michael Jan Friedman, IDW’s Star Trek: Archives, Volume 3: The Gary Seven Collection explores the continued adventures of alien-agent-on-Earth Gary Seven. First seen crossing paths with the crew of the USS Enterprise™ in the 1968 Star Trek second season episode “Assignment: Earth,” Seven is stationed on Earth by his otherworldly overseers to prevent nuclear w...

MERE ANARCHYA new six-part epic covering thirty years of Star Trek history, continuing with an adventure that takes between The Final Frontier and The Undiscovered Country!Book 5: THE BLOOD-DIMMED TIDETwenty-five years after the disaster, Mestiko's recovery is stagnating amid social unrest. A lunar colony designed for scientific research might give the people hope -- until a local terrorist group called the Torye attacks ...

Riker wird entführtAuf dem Planeten Thiopa bricht eine Hungersnot aus. Protektor Stross bittet die Sternenflotte um Hilfe, also liefert die Enterprise Nahrungsmittel und Medikamente für die notleidende Bevölkerung. Doch Captain Jean-Luc Picard ist auch dann an die Erste Direktive gebunden, als er zwischen die rivalisierenden Parteien auf Thiopa gerät: der selbstherrliche Diktator Stross auf der einen, die militant-religiöse Gruppe der "Verweiler" auf der a...

Ein seltsames Energiefeld entführt den Captain!Domarus IV ist als Planet ohne intelligentes Leben klassifiziert - ein ideales Studienobjekt für die Kadetten der Starfleet Academy. Als das Shuttle einer Einsatzgruppe mit Data, Counselor Troi und Wesley Crusher an Bord zur Enterprise zurückkehren will, wird es von einem Raumschiff der Teniraner abgefangen. Diese wollen Domarus IV kolonisieren. Um Picard zum Einlenken zu zwingen, halten sie das Shuttle fest, ...

Pilles Tochter in Gefahr!Auf dem Planeten Empyrea existiert eine Kolonie genetisch perfektionierter Menschen, die mit ihren "minderwertigen" Verwandten nichts mehr zu tun haben wollen. Sie treten aus der Föderation aus. Botschafter Mark Rousseau und die Enterprise-Crew sollen die Empyreaner umstimmen. Pille erlebt auf dem Planet noch eine ganz andere Überraschung: Er ist Vater einer beinahe erwachsenen Tochter. Doch die Gesetze auf Empyrea erlauben keine "...

Wo sind Data und Riker?Die Zivilisation auf Etolos droht nach mehreren Vulkanausbrüchen unter einem Ascheregen zu ersticken. Nun will die Regierung Verhandlungen mit dem verhassten Planeten Alaj führen, von dem sie einige Jahrhunderte zuvor geflohen ist. Captain Picard und seine Enterprise-Crew sollen vermitteln. Auch Alaj steht vor einer ökologischen Katastrophe, und nur die Spezialisten von Etolos könnten eine Katastrophe verhindern. Während Captain Pica...