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Star Trek: The Next Generation
Mass-Market Paperback / June, 2005
1416500154

Written by Keith R.A. DeCandido

Description:

In the wake of the USA Today best-selling A Time for War, a Time for Peace, and Titan: Taking Wing, comes a unique look into the halls of power in the Star Trek universe....

Following the surprise resignation of Federation President Min Zife after the disastrous Tezwa affair, Nan Bacco of Cestus III has won a hotly contested election to become the new chief executive of over one hundred fifty planetary civilizations and their colonies. But no sooner does she take office than the Romulan Star Empire falls into chaos. With tensions already high, a Reman refugee ship is sighted approaching a Federation outpost, its intentions unknown.

As the first year of the Bacco Administration unfolds, the Federation Council is slow to work with its new president, and not always supportive of her policies or her appointments to key council positions; a successful first contact suddenly becomes a diplomatic disaster; and the sins of President Zife prove difficult to lay to rest... as one celebrated Starfleet officer's career reaches a turning point.

Notes

This book is about "a year in the life of the Federation president", according to the author.