Engines of Destiny

Engines of Destiny is a novel that takes place primarily in an alternate timeline 2293. Scotty and Guinen are the major characters, but Admiral Kirk, a Borg Queen, an alternate Sarek, and the Enterprise-D crew also play significant roles. The story relies heavily on the plots of Star Trek: Generations, Star Trek: First Contact, and the TNG episode "Relics," though it has continuity problems with the "Relics" novelization.

Summary
A year after Kirk's apparent death in the Nexus, retired Captain Montgomery Scott decides to join the Norpin V colony thanks to a brief encounter with Guinen. As seen in "Relics," that journey would see him trapped in a transporter pattern buffer for 75 years until the Enterprise-D rescues him. After being given the shuttlecraft Goddard, he roams space, haunted by dreams of Kirk and Ensign Matt Franklin, who died in the buffer.

About six months after being rescued, Scott responds to a distress call from two Narisian siblings, Garamet and Wahlkon onboard a century-old Starfleet shuttlecraft. Their race's technology has been accellerated by an unknown race called the Wise Ones. They lead Scott back to the equally-ancient Klingon Bird of Prey in which the Narisian Proctors discovered the shuttlecraft. Scott repairs the ship and christens it Bounty 2, but decides not to tell Starfleet about his find.

Instead, he returns to the Enterprise-D to retrieve the logs of the original Bounty's trip to the twentieth century.

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