Kosmická loď Enterprise se na průzkumné cestě propadá tajemnou branou, dílem neznámé civilizace, do vzdálených končin Galaxie – a možná na sám okraj vesmíru. Při hledání cesty k návratu nachází jen desítky planet zpustošených cizí zlou sílou. A vzápětí je sama napadena – zaplétá se do zuřící galaktické války...
In einem kaum erforschten Raumsektor stößt die Enterprise auf ein verlassenes, zehntausend Jahre altes Raumschiff - Zeugnis einer verschollenen, hochentwickelten Rasse. Selbst die Spezialisten der Enterprise sind nicht in der Lage, die komplizierteTechnologiedes riesigen Schiffes zu verstehen. Doch die Erforschung des Wracks erweckt die automatischen Systemezum Leben und aktiviertden Transporter. Zwei Crew-Mitglieder - der Androide Data und der blinde Lieutenant La Forge - werden lichtjahreweit durch den Raum gebeamt. Die Enterprise hat jeden Kontakt zu ihnen verloren. Captain Jean-Luc Picard startet eine verzweifelte, aussichtslos scheinende Suche in der Unendlichkeit des Raums. Und er ahnt nicht, daß seine Offiziere bei den »Friedenswächtern gelandet sind - in einer Raumstation, die einen ganzen Planeten diktatorisch beherrscht. Data und La Forge werden dort zwar wie gottähnliche Wesen empfangen, geraten jedoch sofort zwischen die Fronten der rivalisierenden Parteien. Um sich nicht selbst zu gefährden, müssen sie sich auf ein riskantes Täuschungsmanöver einlassen. Bei allen Versuchen, die Konflikte zu schlichten, gibt es für sie aber nur eine Frage: Werden sie jemals zur Enterprise zurückkehren können? Der zweite Roman der neuen STAR TREK-Serie »Die nächste Generation« Deutsche Erstausgabe Science Fiction
The first time Jeremy died, his body was mangled almost beyond recognition in an airliner crash on an isolated mountainside. But something found him there, something that had fallen to a lifeless earth billions of years ago. It entered him. It studied him. It repaired him. And, slowly, it began to...improve him.The second time Jeremy died, the repair took only minutes. And Jeremy began to realize that, in a way he couldn't possibly understand, he could repair others, just as he himself had been repaired. An aging aunt, dying of cancer in the farm home where she had raised him. A dog, struck down by a car. A girl he had known in high school, suffering from cystic fibrosis."Healing," others called it.A "gift."But healing-even resurrecting-others was neither easy nor painless.Nor safe, either for himself or his friends.And it was leading inexorably toward his third-and final-death...
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Over 550,000 copies sold since April 1995! Now middle-grade readers can continue the journey into James Gurney's Dinotopia "RM" -- a remarkable world where dinosaurs and humans live together in harmony. These all-new, stand-alone fantasy novels are written by top-notch fantasy and sci-fi authors and are filled with robust adventures, lyrical details, and a cast of memorable dinosaur characters.Becoming the new apprentice to the Habitat Partner of Forest is very important to young Olivia, but it seems as if it will take forever. While doing another dull jungle plant life survey with her Plateosaurus partner, Hightop, they hear disturbing news -- the root that guarantees all Dinotopians longevity is disappearing. As if that was not enough, Olivia learns that she will have to work with annoying Albert and his Chasmosaurus partner, Thunderfoot. Every potential apprentice is dispatched to all corners of Dinotopia, and now Olivia has a chance to surpass Albert and guarantee her own apprenticeship. But in her hurried, hopeful search for answers, what important questions is she forgetting to ask?
THE MACHINE AGEAfter the apparent death of James T. Kirk on the U.S.S. Enterpris NCC-1701-B, Montgomery Scott decides to leave Starfleet. A chance encounter with a mysterious woman named Guinan leads him to hitch a ride on the U.S.S. Jenolen -- which crashes into a Dyson Sphere, leaving only Scotty to survive suspended as a transporter pattern....Seventy-five years later, he is revived aboard the Enterprise-D -- on which Guinan serves as bartender. But fate has not finished with either Scotty or Guinan. The engineer hatches an audacious plan to travel back in time and rescue Jim Kirk the moment before he would vanish into the nexus and bring him back to the twenty-fourth century without damaging the timeline.Scotty's plan, however, does not go as expected. Though Kirk is rescued, the famed captain and the engineer, as well as Captain Picard, Guinan, and the crew of the Enterprise-D, are trapped in an altered past where there is no Federation, and no human race. Sarek of Vulcan leads a ragtag collection of species fighting a losing battle against the Borg, who have swarmed into the Alpha Quadrant and assimilated Earth.Starfleet's finest miracle worker must find a way to restore the timeline before the galaxy is overrun....
Discovering a planet on which all organic life is dying, the crew of the Enterprise begins to suspect that another group of space travelers is responsible, but the planet's leaders distrust Picard and arrest his away team. Original.
Exploring a deserted alien spaceship, Lt. Commander Data and Lt. Geordi La Forge suddenly find themselves transported light years away – into the middle of a deadly conflict! While Captain Picard and the crew of the USS Enterprise™ search feverishly for the missing crewmen, Data and La Forge discover they are in a station almost identical to the one they were exploring, high in orbit around an Earth-type world. Years before, the occupants of that planet accidentally stumbled onto the ship and its advanced technology – and since then have used its weapons to keep the nations on the planet below disarmed, and at peace. Now their own arrival has precipitated a crisis on the station. Somehow Data and La Forge must find a way to restore trust between the planet below and the station's guardians up above – before a final, destructive war breaks out!
Years before Valerie Hamilton came to Hazleton, Martin Forster's young bride, Sandra, was terrorized and murdered. The killer was never found, and now the same cruel threats that culminated in Sandra's murder are being duplicated¡ªwith Val as the target. But who is making them? And why? At first she is more annoyed than frightened, particularly since the threats are preceded by an obvious if pointless practical A fake notice of Val's engagement to Forster published in the Hazleton Tribune. But she starts to worry when friends tell her she bears a startling resemblance to Sandra. She even begins to wonder if her decision to move to Hazleton in the first place was entirely her own, or if she had been subtly tricked into it¡ªby someone who also saw the resemblance. Someone like Sandra's killer.
