Hundreds of ships and tens of thousands of officers had been lost in the Borg attack seven months ago leaving a vast number of positions to be filled as ships were constructed. Many other cadets like Verdell whose formal notices of separation from the Academy indicated that they’d merely “met all standard requirements” had managed to secure posts on one of Starfleet’s many exploratory vessels. He knew full well that gamma shift on a remote Starbase was the place Starfleet careers went to die, so his commanding officer, Lieutenant Hars Kaydn’s ominous greeting did not trouble him in the least. It is history that teaches us to hope.”Įnsign Lawrence Verdell, who had graduated from Starfleet Academy “without distinction,” as his father liked to say, or “in the bottom third of his class,” as his mother preferred, had not come to the nether regions of the Beta Quadrant with high expectations. “The truth is this: The march of Providence is so slow and our desires so impatient the work of progress is so immense and our means of aiding it so feeble the life of humanity is so long, that of the individual so brief, that we often see only the ebb of the advancing wave and are thus discouraged. The narrative begins just after the return of Vice Admiral Kathryn Janeway (Star Trek: Voyager: The Eternal Tide) and unfolds from September 2381 through January 2382. The Full Circle fleet has been devastated by the force of the Omega Continuum. Join our mailing list and get updates on new releases, deals, bonus content and other great books from Gallery Books and Simon & Schuster.Īs the Federation struggles to recover from the Borg Invasion (Star Trek: Destiny), a Starfleet that has already taken heavy losses is challenged by the emerging power of the Typhon Pact (Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire). Thank you for downloading this Gallery Books eBook.

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