‘Star Trek: A Singular Destiny’ Details Revealed

by Jeff Ayers on October 10th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
Posted In: News

There have been a lot of rumors circulating about the direction that the Star Trek books will be taking after the events surrounding the Destiny trilogy by David Mack.  The first book set in the new Trek universe is Keith DeCandido’s A Singular Destiny. 

DeCandido, a veteran Star Trek writer and editor, has the hurculean task of taking readers into this brave new universe.  He and Mack have done similar work in the past.  Mack wrote the penultimate two-book arc in the A Time To.. series, A Time tio Kill and A Time to Heal and DeCandio had to wrap up the nine-book series with Star Trek: A Time for War, a Time for Peace. He tehn di dthe first book that acted as a follow-up to the series, Star Trek: Articles of the Federation.

Here is the complete cover along with the back cover text.

Warning: Potential Spoilers:

The Shape of Things to Come

The cataclysmic events of Star Trek: Destiny have devastated known space.  Worlds have fallen.  Lives have been destroyed.  And in the uneasy weeks that follow, the survivors of the holocaust continue to be tested to the limits of their endurance.

But, strange and mysterious occurrences are destabilizing the galaxy’s battle-weary Allies even further.  In the Federation, efforts to replenish diminished resources and give succor to millions of evacuees are thwarted at every turn.  On the borders of the battered Klingon Empire, the devious Kinshaya sense weakness –and opportunity.  In Romulan space, the already-fractured empire is dangerously close to civil war.

As events undermining the quadrant’s attempts to heal itself become increasingly widespread, one man begins to understand what is truly unfolding.  Sonek Pran – teacher, diplomat, and sometime advisor to the Federation President – perceives a pattern in the seeming randomness.  And as each new piece of evidence falls into place, a disturbing picture encompassing half the galaxy begins to take shape, revealing a challenge to the Federation and its allies utterly unlike anything the have faced before.

A Singular Destiny will be published mid-January 2009.