By Michael A. Martin

Grab the hearth presently after revealing its union with the Federation’s most up-to-date adversary—a coalition of galactic powers referred to as the Typhon Pact—the Gorn Hegemony suffers an ecological catastrophe that destroys the hatchery international in their seriously very important warrior caste. thankfully, the Gorn had already been investigating lines of an historic yet strong “quick terraforming” expertise left at the back of by way of a long-vanished civilization. This expertise, may still it turn out controllable, supplies to revive their smooth organic and social establishment. but if a Gorn soldier prepares to take advantage of the expertise to reshape the planet Hranrar right into a new warrior-caste spawning floor, threatening to extinguish the local Hranrarii, he attracts the undesirable consciousness of a mad Gorn trooper decided to deliver the army caste into dominance. in the meantime, because the U.S.S. Titan embarks upon a look for this effective know-how within the desire of utilizing it to heal the injuries the Federation sustained in the course of the contemporary Borg predicament, Captain Riker needs to stability his accountability for his crew’s security opposed to the welfare of the Hranrarii and his accountability to the top Directive. With a menacing Typhon Pact fleet nipping at his heels, Riker must never merely cease the Gorn warriors but in addition plumb the secrets and techniques of an historical terraforming artifact. yet of every body serving aboard Titan, Commander Tuvok could be the just one who knows how risky such planet-altering know-how could be, even if used with the simplest of intentions. . . .