by Ilsa J. Bick
The da Vinci encounters temporal disturbances that turn out to be an ancient time machine that Lant is using to go back in time and make a fortune on the market. Tev, Gomez, Abramowitz, and Corsi travel back in time to stop him. [#32: Buying Time by Robert Greenberger]
September
The Dancing Star appears again, which surprises the S.C.E. crew, since they thought they’d destroyed it. They manage to do so successfully this time, while also keeping the ship out of the hands of the Androssi. [#33-34: Collective Hindsight Books 1-2 by Aaron Rosenberg]
Gomez deciphers a distress signal coming from the event horizon of a black hole. The da Vinci discovers a Resaurian prison camp there, one that the Resaurians would rather remained a secret. [#35-36: The Demon Books 1-2 by Loren L. Coleman & Randall N. Bills]
The da Vinci is assigned to aid the non-aligned Tellarite colony of Kharzh’ulla in fixing the planet’s massive orbital ring. Gomez learns that Tev, who grew up on Kharzh’ulla, wrote the definitive study of the ring, but his work was stolen by Eevraith, who now has a successful political career on the basis of his stolen work. [#37: Ring Around the Sky by Allyn Gibson]
A generation ship that has gone out of control is investigated by a joint team that includes the S.C.E. team on the da Vinci and a Klingon team of engineers on the I.K.S. Qaw’qay’. The teams are able to put the ship on course and also solve the occupants’ fertility crisis. [#38: Orphans by Kevin Killiany]
As part of the terms of a disarmament between two planets in the Rhaax system, the da Vinci is ordered to make sure both worlds’ weapons systems have been disarmed. [#39: Grand Designs by Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore]
Bajor joins the Federation. [DS9: Unity by S.D. Perry]
October–November
The da Vinci crew determine that neither side in the Rhaax conflict has any intention of truly disarming. [#39: Grand Designs by Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore]
Gomez, Stevens, Abramowitz, and Deputy Security Chief Vance Hawkins go undercover to Teneb to disarm an observation device that has crash-landed on this pre-warp civilization. All four team members are almost killed. Afterward, Hawkins and Abramowitz decide to start a relationship. [#40: Failsafe by David Mack]
Gomez, Corsi, and Lense try to determine what happened to a ship that is bereft of all save a lone two-hundred-year-old child named Dobrah. Lense learns the crew died of a disease that she cannot cure. [#41: Bitter Medicine by Dave Galanter]
While clearing out a “sargasso sea” of derelicts, the da Vinci encounters a ship powered by manipulating probabilities—a drive system that is malfunctioning and endangers reality itself before Soloman is able to shut it down. [#42: Sargasso Sector by Paul Kupperberg]
The S.C.E. is called in to repair the weather system on Risa, and find themselves discovering a new life-form. [#43: Paradise Interrupted by John S. Drew]
The da Vinci travels to the “Delta Triangle” in order to provide a cultural service for a member of the community that has been trapped in that region of space for centuries. [#44: Where Time Stands Still by Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore]
Non-aligned tycoon Rod Portlyn asks for the S.C.E.’s aid in setting up a research-and-development facility, but they soon uncover Portlyn’s shady dealings. [#45: The Art of the Deal by Glenn Greenberg]
The Lokra request the S.C.E.’s aid in stopping a seeming derelict that is heading for their planet, but the “derelict” is actually a ship occupied by a dormant silicon-based life-form. [#46: Spin by J. Steven York & Christina F. York]
December
The da Vinci returns to Earth for the wedding of Gold’s granddaughter Esther to Khor, son of Lantar, the first-ever Klingon-Jewish wedding. At the wedding, Mark expresses interest in marriage to Faulwell. [#47-48: Creative Couplings Books 1-2 by Glenn Hauman & Aaron Rosenberg]
Stevens and Tev aid in the holodeck test of a prototype Starfleet vessel, the Hyperion, which is victimized by practical jokes gone horribly wrong. [#47-48: Creative Couplings Books 1-2 by Glenn Hauman & Aaron Rosenberg]
While testing a new warp slipstream, the da Vinci comes to the aid of a Koas who is holding his planet in a box. They manage to figure out the controls to the box before aliens known as the Silgov destroy the da Vinci to get the technology for themselves. [#49: Small World by David Mack]
Two crewmembers, security guard Ken Caitano and engineer Ted Deverick, are killed by unknown means. Eventually, Corsi learns that they were victims of a “sonic bullet” embedded in a padd holding a Gamma Quadrant-based novel. The da Vinci, with the help of personnnel on DS9, trace the novel to a renegade Vorta in the Gamma Quadrant. [#50: Malefictorum by Terri Osborne]
Upon their return to DS9, Lense learns that her paper on Dobrah has gleaned her a nomination for the Bentman Prize. Since Bashir is up for the same prize, they depart together on the Runabout Missouri. [#51: Lost Time by Ilsa J. Bick, #54: Security by Keith R.A. DeCandido, #55-56: Wounds Books 1-2 by Ilsa J. Bick]
In an alternate universe, the crew of the Gettysburg, commanded by David Gold, attempt to learn the location of the Celestial Temple of the Bajoran Prophets by querying other universes. This has devastating effects in the mainline universe, as it’s done through an Androssi security device left behind on Empok Nor. The S.C.E. team and DS9’s crew manage to communicate with the other universe—Soloman is stunned to learn that 111 is alive in that universe, and Gomez is likewise floored by learning that Duffy’s alive there—and solve the crisis before the Bajoran system is destroyed. [#51: Lost Time by Ilsa J. Bick]
The events on Empok Nor also activate a long-dormant alien device that opens gateways into parallel universes. The Missouri encounters one, and crashes on a planet in that universe. Lense and Bashir are separated, each thinking the other dead. Lense falls in with Jabari rebels, who resist cybernetic replacement of body parts, while Bashir is captured by the Kornak military. [#54: Security by Keith R.A. DeCandido, #55: Wounds Book 1 by Ilsa J. Bick]
The da Vinci returns to Earth for Caitano and Deverick’s funeral. [#50: Malefictorum by Terri Osborne]
Gomez takes a one-week leave on Rec Station Hidalgo. During that week, the da Vinci’s attempts to decipher an alien device in the Artemis system are complicated by the arrival of the Androssi. [#52: Identity Crisis by John J. Ordover, #54: Security by Keith R.A. DeCandido]
The da Vinci arrives at Hidalgo to pick up Gomez, only to find that Gomez has gone crazy and taken over the station. This is revealed to be a complex AI program designed to help a treasury minister on Sigma V steal a lot of money. [#52: Identity Crisis by John J. Ordover]
The S.C.E. team is split up in thirds. Two teams go to pre-warp planets, Coroticus III and Sachem II, that were conquered by the Dominion during the war to examine cultural contamination and set up new observation posts. The da Vinci performs upgrades on Avril Station. Sachem II is uneventful; however, an insane Vorta remained behind on Coroticus and has been killing the natives over the past year. [#53: Fables of the Prime Directive by Cory Rushton]
On Avril Station, Tev goes behind Gomez’s back regarding a diagnostic program. Tev’s program later crashes the station’s system, resulting in Gomez giving him a severe reprimand. [#54: Security by Keith R.A. DeCandido]
Lense becomes the medic for the Jabari rebels, and starts to form a relationship with the rebel leader, Saad. The doctor in charge of the military hospital where Bashir is imprisoned is trying to help him, but is facing resistance from the security director. [#56: Wounds Book 2 by Ilsa J. Bick]
Caitano’s replacement is from Izar, and his presence is like opening an old wound for Corsi, who finally tells Stevens about Ableen, the first time she’s ever talked about it. The two of them, after dancing around each other for months, finally become a proper couple. [#54: Security by Keith R.A. DeCandido]
The S.C.E. and DS9 learn that Bashir and Lense never arrived at the awards ceremony. Both the da Vinci and the Defiant engage in search operations. The former ship finds the alien device, and are able to determine which alternate u
niverse the Missouri entered. They go in just as the Jabari are attacking the hospital, and Lense and Bashir are reunited. The da Vinci beams them both out. [#54: Security by Keith R.A. DeCandido, #56: Wounds Book 2 by Ilsa J. Bick]
Bashir examines Lense and discovers she’s pregnant. [#56: Wounds Book 2 by Ilsa J. Bick]
Coming Next Month:
Star Trek™: S.C.E. #57
OUT OF THE COCOON
by William Leisner
Centuries ago, the S.S. Mariposa transported two sets of colonists—one a “back-to-nature” group called the Bringloidi, the other a collection of scientists—to new worlds. Over a decade ago, the Starship Enterprise™ brought the colonies back together as a solution to two problems—the Bringloidi had lost their home to solar flares, and the Mariposans faced a breeding crisis brought about by their use of cloning.
However, the union has not been as fruitful as Captain Picard had hoped, and now the S.C.E. team of the U.S.S. da Vinci has been called in to solve the Mariposans’ difficulties—but will the solution be even worse than the problem?
COMING IN OCTOBER 2005
FROM POCKET BOOKS!