Author(s):	John Vornholt
Publisher:	Pocket Books
Series:	Pocket TNG #54 Double Helix #4
Published:	July 1999
Pages:	304
Stardate:	Unknown (2371)
Reference(s):	ISBN 0671034774 (paperback) ISBN 1417718110 (hardcover) ASIN B000FC0T5Y (Kindle)

Tom Riker joins forces with the Maquis to save a world in peril!

SummaryEdit

From the book jacket

Like intertwining filaments of Human and alien DNA, a ruthless campaign of revenge has threaded its way through the galaxy, touching billions of sentient beings - and changing forever the life of Lieutenant Thomas Riker.

Tom Riker, an identical duplicate of the Starship Enterprise's first officer, is serving as a Starfleet medical courier when he encounters a group of Maquis renegades, led by a former Starfleet officer named Chakotay. A planet in the Demilitarized Zone, now controlled by the Cardassians, has been stricken with the same deadly disease that has plagued the Alpha Quadrant for years, and only Riker can get the medical supplies the Maquis so desperately need. But the Cardassians would rather destroy all life on the planet than risk letting the epidemic spread!

Background InformationEdit

• Fourth of six books in the Star Trek: The Next Generation - Double Helix series.
• According to this novel, it was Chakotay's idea for Tom Riker to steal the USS Defiant from Deep Space 9 in 2371 by posing as Commander William T. Riker, as depicted in DS9: "Defiant".

CharactersEdit

Thomas Riker

Chakotay

B'Elanna Torres

Seska

ReferencesEdit

Maquis

External link Edit

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