Star Trek: The Next Generation - Double Helix #6: The First Virtue
M.J. Friedman, C. Golden / Paperback / Aug 1999

An insidious plot for revenge has spanned several years in the life of Jean-Luc Picard, but how did this merciless vendetta get started? Like a double helix curling back on itself, the final answer lies at the very beginning...

A series of terrorist attacks have heightened tensions between two alien races, bringing an entire sector to the brink of interplanetary war. While Picard, captain of the U.S.S. Stargazer, struggles to keep the peace, Lieutenant Commander Jack Crusher must team up with a Vulcan officer named Tuvok to uncover the hidden architect of the attacks, but the outcome of their quest would breed dire consequences for the future.

Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Forgotten War
W.R. Forstchen / Paperback / Sep 1999

The legendary Starfleet Captain Lucien Murat, a contemporary of Christopher Pike, disappeared during a battle with the alien Tarn. Now, generations later, Captain Picard is conducting delicate diplomatic negotiations with the Tarn when the Starship Enterprise discovers the descendants of Murat and his crew stranded on a desolate planet, still fighting a war that ended decades ago.

The human castaways face destruction, but more than these precious lives are at stake. Unless Picard can find a solution, a lost hero's legacy may ignite a new era of interstellar war!

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Gemworld (1/2)
J. Vornholt / Paperback / Feb 2000

Dazzling to behold, Gemworld is one of the wonders of the Federation: an artificial world composed entirely of crystal, its atmosphere held in place by a sophisticated network of force fields. Home to a half dozen different sentient races, this singular world is a low-gravity playpen of mammoth spires, endless fractal staircases, gemstone arcs, and dazzling prisms, all carefully nurtured by the planet's many inhabitants --- until now.

Lieutenant Melora Pazlar, who previously served on Deep Space Nine is currently stationed aboard the Starship Enterprise, where an urgent telepathic summons alerts her to the danger threatening her homeworld. The crystals that once sheltered her people, and several other alien species, are now growing at a vastly accelerated and uncontrollable rate, wrecking havoc throughout the planet. Captain Picard orders the Enterprise on a rescue mission to Gemworld, but they arrive to find a world in chaos --- and an unexpected menace that traps the crew of the Enterprise along with the fragile civilization they hoped to save!

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Gemworld (2/2)
J. Vornholt / Paperback / Feb 2000

Sparkling like a three-dimensional snowflake in the depths of space, Gemworld once was one of the Federation's greatest marvels. Six different alien races coexisted peacefully on an artificial world composed entirely of crystal --- until the very substance of Gemworld began to multiply out of control, tearing the world apart. Now, the entire planet --- and the Starship Enterprise as well --- faces total desturction.

The only way to stop the disaster is to turn off the vast networld of force fields holding Gemworld's atmosphere in place, but to do so will require the coorperation of each of the planet's half dozen alien civilizations, one of which sabotaged Gemworld in the first place. With time running out, Captain Picard and his crew, including a lovestruck Lieutenant Barclay, must embark on a hazardous trek across the dying planet to find and unite the chief engineers from many strange and exotic races --- while watching out for a mass murderer determined to destroy a world!

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Tooth and Claw
D. Durgin / Paperback / Feb 2001

Ntignano was a populated world with a perfect sun --- until the right technology fell into the wrong hands. Now the sun is failing quickly, and the Starship Enterprise has just one chance to evacuate the fleeing refugees. Captain Jean-Luc Picard must succeed in delicate negotiations with the only people who can help them: a prickly neighboring species know as the Tsorans.

To assist in that effort, Commander Will Riker was assigned a very different diplomatic task. As a polite formality and show of good faith, he accompanied a young Tsoran prince to an exclusive hunting preserve. There, technology-damping fields and some of the galaxy's deadliest predators were supposed to test the untried noble's ability in the kaphoora --- the hunt. But the shuttlecraft didn't land on Fandre; it crashed.

Now, cut off from Tsora and the Enterprise, the survivors of the disaster face the ultimate struggle for survival. Without the aid of tricorders or phasers, Riker, his royal charge, and their would-be rescuers must fight for their lives with the only weapons they can muster --- spears and bat'leth, tooth and claw.