Author(s):	Pamela Sargent and George Zebrowski
Publisher:	Pocket Books
Series:	Pocket TNG #43
Published:	November 1996
Pages:	288
Stardate:	Unknown (2369)
Reference(s):	ISBN 0671527037 (paperback) ISBN 0743421213 (eBook) ASIN B000FC0OWW (Kindle)

A dying sun threatens the USS Enterprise with total destruction!

Summary Edit

From the book jacket

With their sun about to go nova, the people of Epictetus III face annihilation. Although the USS Enterprise-D has come to lead the rescue operation, there is no way to evacuate a population of over twenty million, leaving Captain Picard to make an agonizing decision. Should he try to salvage the planet's children, its greatest leaders and thinkers, or its irreplaceable archaeological treasures? No matter what he decides, millions must be sacrificed – unless another solution can be found.

With time running out, Data proposes a revolutionary scientific experiment that could save all of Epictetus III, or doom both the planet and the Enterprise as well.

Background Information Edit

• An extract from this novel appeared in Star Trek Monthly issue 21.

Characters Edit

Jean-Luc Picard

William T. Riker

Data

Beverly Crusher

Deanna Troi

Worf

Geordi La Forge

Alexander Rozhenko

Guinan

Miles O'Brien

Jeremy Curtis

Lxiti Lonsz

Raul Zender

Ganesa Methta 

Ensign.

Pietro Barbieri 

Admiral.

Chang Jun Shing 

Ensign.

Anita Obrion 

Lieutenant.

Yeoman Parwiz Bodonchor 

Yeoman.

Hughes Holman 

Ensign.

Jacques Bulero 

Lieutenant.

Iris Liang 

Lieutenant Commander.

References Edit

Federation Council; Starfleet; Epictetus III

External link Edit

• A Fury Scorned at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works