Just prior to a delegation going down to the surface to meet with the ruling government officials, Aubin approachs Lt. Batanides and her fiancé, Federation ambassador Aubin Tabor, are aboard to lead the diplomatic mission to Chiaros IV. She and one of the Slayton officers (one of those that went down to the planet only to be captured by the anti-government rebels), Cortin Zweller, are old friends of Captian Picard's from their Starfleet Academy days (both having been introduced in the "Star Trek: The Next Generation" episode, "Tapestry"). Included on the mission are Admiral Marta Batanides. The Enterprise-E is then assigned to follow up on the Slayton's original mission (as well as try to determine what became of the Slayton). Immediately after they have left the ship, the Slayton leaves to investigate a spatial disturbances nearby in the Geminus Gulf and is destroyed. Slayton, arrives at Chiaros IV and sends a group of officers down to meet with the ruling government. The official government is siding with Federation membership while a group of rebels hiding out on the permanent "night side" of the planet staging attacks on the sitting government is anti-Federation and is working with the Romulans.Įarly in the book, another Starfleet vessel, the U.S.S. The native species on Chiaros IV is about to vote whether or not to pursue membership in the Federation or to spurn it in favor of siding with the Romulans. Reflecting on Hawk's death causes him to remember the ship's mission to Chiaros IV, a barely habitable planet in the Geminus Gulf (a three sector wide part of space considered by all to be otherwise completely empty and without any real strategic value except that it is near both Federation and Romulan space). Daniels in Rogue that is also in both First Contact as well as in "Slings and Arrows", the latter of which is where his full name is given as Pádraig Bréanainn Daniels.) Sean Hawk, who is also one of the characters featured quite a bit in "Slings and Arrows". One of these officers (as seen in the film) is Lt. (Spoilers warning.) As I mentioned, it opens after First Contact, with Picard reflecting on the officers lost during their battle with the Borg. After reading four shorter novellas ("Slings and Arrows" books one through four), it was nice to be back into a full length Star Trek: TNG novel (one released six years prior to "Slings and Arrows"). The main story here (aside from a framing story at the beginning and end of the novel that takes place after the events of the Star Trek: First Contact film) also takes place between (but unrelated to) books four and five of the Star Trek: The Next Generation: “Slings and Arrows” ebooks series (2007-2008), which is why I'm reading it at this time (having just finished book four of "Slings and Arrows").Īll of that preamble stuff finished, I have to say that I enjoyed Rogue quite a bit. Perry and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Section 31: Abyss by David Weddle and Jeffrey Lang. They were followed on July 1, 20001, with Star Trek : Section 31: Cloak by S.D. Rogue and Star Trek: Voyager: Section 31: Shadow by Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Kathryn Rusch both came out first (on the same release date, May 22, 2001). Rogue is one of four "Section 31" themed books released in 2001 (not one long continuing story but instead four separate stories all dealing with the shadowy covert Section 31 black ops agency operating unknown to most people within Starfleet itself, as revealed on the "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" television series). One can ignore the "Book 2" in the title as given on GoodReads. Section 31: Rogue ( Star Trek: The Next Generation: Section 31: Rogue) by Andy Mangels and Michael A.
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