Foreign Foes

By Dave Galanter

The Hidran race and the Klingon Empire have been at each other's throats for seventy years, and Captain Jean-Luc Picard has been asked to do the near-impossible: take the U.S.S. Enterprise™ to the planet Velex to mediate a treaty that will end the conflict between these two aggressive species. Things get off to a rocky start -- then turn deadly as the Hidran ambassador mysteriously dies, and kills a Klingon delegate as a last act of vengence.

When Lt.Worf is charged with the ambassador's assassinaton, and Commander Riker and Counselor Troi are trapped far below the surface of the planet, Captain Picard must not only act to save the Hidranas and Klingons from each other, but to save his Klingon officer from a hideous death sentence...

• Language: English
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
• Release date: Dec 11, 2012
• ISBN: 9781471109089

Dave Galanter

Dave Galanter has authored (or coauthored with collaborator Greg Brodeur) various Star Trek projects, including Voyager: Battle Lines, the Next Generation duology Maximum Warp, The Original Series novels Crisis of Consciousness and Troublesome Minds, and numerous works of short Star Trek fiction.

Reviews for Foreign Foes

[daniexj · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

I seem to be in a reading period where the Star Trek books I try to read are duds (i.e. Grounded). This book wasn't the worst Star Trek tome that I've read, but it was quite confusing when it came to the plot. As the novel went along the plot did smooth out, but it took awhile and never fully became clear like the books by Michael Jan Friedman or Peter David.It also had other things in common with Peter David books. one of the subplots concerned Riker and Troi. This author tried to have the interaction have both the sexual tension that was present on the TV show as well as the camaraderie and friendship, but, in the book, it wasn't happening. At some times they seemed too snippy at each other, and then too funny for the situation. THis wasn't like "Imzadi", not by a long shot.Also, all the characters, both the Enterprise crew, and the newly created for this story, seemed angry all the time, and then all of a sudden the anger was shut off and everyone was friends. I get why he did it, but it came off on the page as choppy. A three star story, but one that's on the low of three stars not the high.