Author(s):	Dean Wesley Smith with Diane Carey
Publisher:	Pocket Books
Series:	Pocket TOS #90 New Earth #2
Published:	1 June 2000
Pages:	288
Stardate:	Unknown (2273)
Reference(s):	ISBN 0671042971 (paperback) ASIN B000FBJG4K (Kindle)

A lush and distant world hides a deadly secret!

Summary Edit

From the book jacket

The Starship Enterprise has embarked on its most ambitious assignment yet: to lead a courageous band of settlers to a far-off planet, to defend the fragile colony from alien threats, and to unravel the mysteries of a brand-new Earth!

A six-month distance from the Federation, the planet Belle Terre offers a new life to more than 30,000 families, pioneers, scientists, expatriates, go-getters, loners, and entrepreneurs, all under the watchful eye of Captain Kirk and his crew. But the would-be colonists have barely settled in the untamed wilderness of their new home when Spock makes a startling discovery: not only does one of the planet's moons contain a rare ore of almost inestimable value, that same moon is also violently unstable. Within months, it will inevitably explode – destroying all life on Belle Terre!

Background InformationEdit

• This novel contained Chapter Eleven of the serialized novel Starfleet: Year One.

Characters Edit

James T. Kirk 

Captain

Nickle 

Captain of the Hampton Roads

References Edit

Hampton Roads 

Captain Nickle's Conestoga-class colony ship is destroyed.

External link Edit

• Belle Terre at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works