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New Earth, Book Two of Six: Belle Terre

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Star Trek
Mass-Market Paperback / June, 2000
237 pages
0-671-04297-1

Written by Dean Wesley Smith
With Diane Carey

Description:

A lush and distant world hides a deadly secret!

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 colont from alien threats, and the unravel the enigmatic riddles of a brand-new Earth!

Belle Terre

A six-month distance from the Federation, the planet Belle Terre offers a new life to more than 60,000 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 settles 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 explore--destroying all life on Belle Terre!