Introduction (blurb)
Earth Command defeated the Romulans with the help of other races across the galaxy, and the Neutral Zone was established. Out of that necessary and uneasy collaboration came the United Federation of Planets and its combined forces, Starfleet. But the close quarters of a starship among so many races and personalities is discomforting to all the ranks. Control of what could grow to be the greatest power in the galaxy is at stake and no one is taking it lightly.
A powerful new class of starship, the Daedalus, flagship of the new Federation fleet, is up for grabs among the six new Starfleet captains. Admiral Ed Walker is determined to keep this jewel, and all of Starfleet, under military command and away from the scientists. He chooses Captain Aaron Stiles as his protégé in the endeavor. Stiles, bent on avenging the death of his brother Jake, faces stiff resistance from Walker's rebellious space jock nephew Dane and scientist Capt. Bryce Shumar. But they face their biggest threat of all in an unknown alien race destroying the bases of the Oreias system. Can brains and brawn combine to win without killing each other in the process?
References
Characters
Chinua Abute • Applegate • Arquette • Aspartha • Barker • Barrios • Doreen Barstowe • Andre Beschta • Broj • Cabbol • Chang • Chung • Alonis Cobaryn • Connor Dane • Darigghi • Dolgin • Ducheddet • Clarisse Dumont • Emick • Erendi • Elena Ezquerra • Fitzgerald • Glendennen • Daniel Hagedorn • Hosokawa • Hudlin • Ibañez • Ideko • Jezzelis • Jones • Alexander Kapono • Kauff • Morgan Kelly • Kendall • Klebanov • Lavagetto • Sam Lindblad • Lydia Littlejohn • Locklear • Hiro Matsura • McCallum • Amanda McTigue • Martha Megapenthes • Milosovich • Steven Mullen • Myerson • Nasir • Odronk • Tom Orlowski • Rasmussen • Redfern • Uri Reulbach • Rosten • Sammak • Santorini • Sedrik • Barnett Harrington Shaw • Bryce Shumar • Siefried • Smithson • Sonadh • St. Claire • Aaron Stiles • Jake Stiles • Stuckey • Tavarez • Tirontis • T'Pau • Urbina • Ed Walker • Wallace • Warneke • Weeks • Wickersham • Williams • Woo • Corspa Zenar • Zhrakkas
Starships and vehicles
Achilles • Anaconda • Cheyenne • Christopher-class • Cochrane • Daedalus-class • USS Daedalus • Gibraltar • Horatio • Manticore • Maverick • Peregrine • Prosperous • Yellowjacket
Locations
- Cheron
- Earth
- Afterburner
- Command Base
- San Francisco
- University of Pennsylvania
- West Point
- Earth Base 14
- Middira
- Oreias system
- Oreias V
- Oreias VII
- Oreias VIII
- Oreias IX
- Romulan Neutral Zone
- Vulcan
- Referenced only
- Aldebaran • Algeron • Alpha Eridani II • Andor • Anjyyl • Arbaza • Aratain Sector • Dedderai • Dopterius • Earth Base 12 • Ekkenda IV • Galendus Cluster • Gamma Llongo • Kryannen system • Magabenthus system • Ornathia Prime • Osadj • Rigel IV • Tennessee • Vobilin
Races and cultures
Andorian • Dedderac • Human • Middiron • Nisaaren • Orion • Osadjani • Rigelian • Romulan • Tellarite • Vobilite • Vulcan
States and Organisations
United Earth • Earth Command • United Federation of Planets • Federation Starfleet • Fleet Commission
- Referenced only
- Federation Council • Starfleet Academy • Vulcan Science Academy
Other
Battle of Aldebaran • Battle of Cheron • beer • Chicago Mobs of the Twenties • coffee • d'saako seeds • Earth-Romulan War • Ekkendan lizard • gold • Medal of Valor • muttle pods • Nobel Prize • President of United Earth • seekasa wood • subspace chute • tequila • tuula bush • Vegan choriomeningitis
Background
The individual chapters of this book were first published as "extras" in other novels. On the covers of those editions a small label indicated which chapter was included. (The 2002 omnibus version has newly-added scenes for T'Pau and extra characters, such as Ducheddet of Andor, a member of an early United Federation of Planets constitutional committee.)
The appearance of Chapter Six (in the mass market versions of Strange New Worlds reprints) was a last-minute change, following delays to the pair of novels originally planned to carry the chapter. Pocket Books editor John Ordover made an offer to ship out the chapter to anyone angered by the resultant need to repurchase the SNW volumes specifically for Starfleet: Year One.
Starting in August 1999, the original chapters could be found in:
- Chapter One
- Double Helix, Part 5: Double or Nothing by Peter David (TNG)
- Double Helix, Part 6: The First Virtue by Michael Jan Friedman and Christie Golden (TNG)
- Chapter Two
- The Forgotten War by William R. Forstchen (TNG)
- Pathways by Jeri Taylor (VOY) (paperback edition)
- Chapter Three
- Across the Universe by Pamela Sargent and George Zebrowski
- Triangle: Imzadi II by Peter David (TNG) (paperback edition)
- Chapter Four
- The Quiet Place by Peter David (New Frontier)
- Dark Allies by Peter David (New Frontier)
- Chapter Five
- The Badlands, Book 1, by Susan Wright
- The Badlands, Book 2, by Susan Wright
- Chapter Six
- Strange New Worlds, Book I (mass market paperback edition)
- Strange New Worlds, Book II (mass market paperback edition)
- Chapter Seven
- Gemworld, Book 1, by John Vornholt (TNG)
- Gemworld, Book 2, by John Vornholt (TNG)
- Chapter Eight
- The Fall of Terok Nor by Judith Reeves-Stevens and Garfield Reeves-Stevens (Millennium Book 1) (DS9)
- The War of the Prophets by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens (Millennium Book 2) (DS9)
- Chapter Nine
- Inferno by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens (Millennium Book 3) (DS9)
- Dark Victory by William Shatner with Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens (paperback edition)
- Chapter Ten
- A Stitch in Time by Andrew J. Robinson (DS9)
- Vulcan's Forge by Josepha Sherman and Susan Shwartz (paperback edition)
- Chapter Eleven
- Wagon Train to the Stars by Diane Carey (New Earth, Book 1)
- Belle Terre by Dean Wesley Smith with Diane Carey (New Earth, Book 2)
- Chapter Twelve
- Rough Trails by L.A. Graf (New Earth, Book 3)
- The Flaming Arrow by Kathy Oltion and Jerry Oltion (New Earth, Book 4)
Connections
- Starfleet: Year One article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
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