Slings and Arrows

Slings and Arrows is a six part eBook miniseries published as part of Star Trek: The Next Generation's 20th Anniversary celebrations depicting the first year of the USS Enterprise-E.

eBooks

 * A Sea of Troubles by J. Steven York & Christina F. York
 * The Oppressor's Wrong by Phaedra M. Weldon
 * The Insolence of Office by William Leisner
 * That Sleep of Death by Terri Osborne
 * A Weary Life by Robert Greenberger
 * Enterprises of Great Pitch and Moment by Keith R.A. DeCandido

Summary

 * By series editor Keith R.A. DeCandido, from the Trek BBS

In Star Trek: First Contact, Geordi La Forge said that the Enterprise-E had been in service for a year. As we mostly saw in the fourth and fifth seasons of Deep Space Nine, it was quite a year: the Federation-Klingon alliance was sundered, Cardassia's government fell, the Maquis continued to operate with impunity, and paranoia over Changeling infiltration of the Alpha Quadrant was at an all-time high, to the point where a Starfleet admiral's conspiracy to declare martial law on Earth was almost successful.

Closer to home, Will Riker's "twin" Tom Riker joined the Maquis and was captured by the Cardassians, Deanna Troi's mother gave birth to a half-Tavnian son, Data grew accustomed to his emotion chip (and learned to turn it off), La Forge gave up his VISOR for a set of optical implants, and the ship saw some new arrivals, including Lieutenants Hawk (conn) and Daniels (tactical).

However, the fiction has done little with that first year of the Enterprise-E's existence: only two novels take place in that time period (Ship of the Line and Section 31: Rogue).

Until now, anyhow. As part of the celebration of the 20th anniversary of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Pocket Books presents Slings and Arrows, a six-eBook miniseries chronicling the year leading up to First Contact, which will begin in October 2007.