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Balance of Power

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Star Trek: The Next Generation
Mass-Market Paperback / January, 1995
296 pages
0-671-52003-2

Written by Dafydd ab Hugh

Description:

Captain Picard must keep a superweapon out of enemy hands!

When a famous Federation scientist dies, his son puts his inventions up for sale to the highest bidder--whether Federation, Klingon, Romulan, or Cardassian. Among the items at auction are medical devices, engineering advances--and a photon pulse cannon capable of punching through a starship's shields with a single shot.

Meanwhile, at the Academy, Wesley Crusher comes to the aid of his best friend--and finds himself kidnapped by outlaw Ferengi bent on controlling the universe through commerce. When they also set their sights on the photon cannon, Captain Picard must find a way to save the Starship Enterprise and the Federation from the deadliest weapon ever known--with every race in the galaxy aligned against him!