Star Trek: Gateways Books
After defeating a hostile computer program guarding an abandoned Kalandan outpost, Captain Kirk and his crew attempt to unlock the secrets of an ancient artifact that had hurled the Enterprise more than one thousand light years in an instant.
Dangerous remnants of an extinct interstellar civilization, the Gateways connect the Alpha Quadrant with the farthest reaches of the galaxy. Hidden away in various corners of the universe, the ancient portals could be the future of space travel, but they may also provide a open doorway for an invasion from beyond! Twenty years ago, in the space near Belle Terre, a caravan of alien vessels disappeared into a gigantic Gateway. Now the descendants of those aliens have returned, armed with incredible new weapons and abilities. Captain Nick Keller of the U.S.S. Challenger, already struggling to maintain peace in the troubled sector, must now cope with a fleet of hostile aliens driven by their own fanatical agenda!
More than 200,000 years ago, the ancient Iconians created a network of interdimensional Gateways providing instantaneous transportation across unimaginable distances. Once known as the "Demons of Air and Darkness," the Iconians mysteriously vanished many millennia ago, never to return -- or so it was believed. Summoned to an emergency brieÞng at Starþeet Headquarters, Captain Jean-Luc Picard is stunned to discover that the legendary Iconians have returned at last, and are offering to sell the secrets of their advanced technology to the Federation. To prove their sincerity, they have reactivated their long-abandoned Gateways, but the results have been strife and chaos throughout the entire Alpha Quadrant. Now Picard and his crew must contend with feuding Klingons and Romulans as the captain seeks to discover the sinister truth behind the Iconians' unexpected rebirth!
When a deadly force from the Delta Quadrant threatens to annihilate a world near Deep Space 9, Colonel Kira Nerys and her crew battle to avert an planetary disaster, while Lieutenant Nog and Ensign Thirshar ch'Thane race against time to shut down the spatial portals forever, and Quark becomes embroiled in an interstellar conspiracy. Original.
With the interspacial Gateways finally offering hope of returning home, Captain Janeway and the crew of the Voyager is confronted with a fleet of lost ships, all desperately seeking a way home, a situation that could threaten Voyager's own future. Original.
Missing for two hundred millennia, the legendary Iconians have returned, bringing with them the secret of interdimensional teleportation across vast interstellar distances. Awakened once more, their ancient Gateways are rewriting the map of the galaxy, and nowhere more than in the New Frontier®.... A century ago, the imperial Thallonians separated two feuding alien races, depositing each of them on a new world safely distant from that of their ancestral enemies. Now, however, the Gateways have made it possible for the long dormant blood feud to begin anew. Captain Mackenzie Calhoun of the U.S.S. Excalibur and his partner, Captain Elizabeth Shelby of the U.S.S. Trident, find themselves fighting a losing battle to keep the horrific violence from escalating, even as they gradually realize the catastrophic danger posed by the Gateways themselves!
When the sudden reactivation of the Gateways created by the ancient Iconians destabilizes interstellar relations among planets and cultures once separated by great distances, Starfleet's finest commanders--Captain Kirk, Captain Picard, Colonel Kira Nerys, Captain Kathryn Janeway, Captains Calhoun and Shelby, and Commander Nick Keller--venture through separate doorways into the unknown.