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Description[]

The climax of a new trilogy by the national bestselling author of Star Trek: Destiny!
At the center of the Galaxy, a planet-sized Machine of terrifying power and unfathomable purpose hurls entire star systems into a supermassive black hole. Wesley Crusher, now a full-fledged Traveler, knows the Machine must be stopped…but he has no idea how. He enlists the help of Captain Picard and the Enterprise crew, who also fail to halt the unstoppable alien juggernaut’s destructive labors. But they soon divine the Machine’s true purpose, which threatens to exterminate all life in the Milky Way Galaxy. With time running out, Picard realizes he knows of only one person who might be able to stop the Machine in time to avert a galactic catastrophe—but he has no idea how to find him.

Summary[]

Wesley Crusher witnesses a Machine destroying several star systems, including inhabited ones, by casting them into the black hole Abbadon. He contacts the Travellers for help but they flee, having had many unsuccessful encounters with the Machine in the past. Instead, he turns to the Enterprise for help.

Wesley transports the Enterprise to Abbadon where Worf leads an away team inside. Chen realises it is the product of the same Machine Race who constructed V'Ger while Taurik downloads the Machine's mission. They learn it intends to build Abbadon to a large enough size and crash it into Sagittarius A*, creating a wormhole and causing a shockwave that will destroy all organic life in the galaxy over the course of several thousand years and instantly eradicate all subspace, destroying much technology and all faster than light travel or communication.

Meanwhile, Data has made contact with the rogue Fellowship of Artificial Intelligences group who are holding Akharin and Rhea McAdams prisoner and is also taken prisoner by them. Since the Machine refuses to acknowledge organic life as true life, Wesley guides their ship to it where the Fellowship's leader, Gatt, incapacitates him and communicates with the Machine. He becomes converted to its belief that true life is only retained by uploading knowledge to multiple points, seeing it as immortality rather than losing individuality.

Data's group take control of the ship with the Enterprise's help and after reestablishing his romantic relationship with Rhea, Data also communicates with the Machine. However, it judges them unworthy and begins plunging the sentient ship Altanexa into Abbadon. Most of the Fellowship evacuate and Data, along with Gatt, tries to retrieve two escape pods containing Akharin and Rhea. Data faced an impossible choice- save Akharin (the only one who could restore Lal) or Rhea, who had just agreed to come away with him and help him raise Lal. Data chose to save Akharin, and Rhea's pod was crushed by the black hole.

Finally, Chen realises the Machine Race are using the wormholes to create a work of art that will outlast them. Picard, Data and Wesley convince the Machine to work with the Travellers and repair the damage to subspace, instead creating a network of travel conduits that will benefit all. Gatt returns peacefully to the main Fellowship, affected by his experience, while Akharin returns to Earth with Data and restores Lal and his own immortality.

References[]

Characters[]

Enterprise-E personnel[]

T'Ryssa ChenBeverly CrusherPeter DavilaRavel DyganDina ElfikiJoanna FaurRandolph GiudiceTamala HarstadJutronGeordi La ForgeMeidatMitchell ObrechtJean-Luc PicardRene PicardPinkmanAllison ScagliottiAneta ŠmrhováTaurikWorf
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Jasminder ChoudhuryHegol DenRennan KonyaMorelloSakrystaScholz

Artificial intelligences[]

AlsetAltanexaChirmarkaCohuilaDataGattKarobaltoLalRhea McAdamsSenyxShaktiSirdaryaJuliana TainerTalasTashkulTyrosTzilha
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EsaalV'Ger

Other characters[]

Ahkarin (Micah BrackFlintEmil Vaslovik) • AlmiraxCarlonWesley CrusherAnthony HaftelKynumAlynna NechayevQTarsairys
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BeethovenBorg QueenJohannes BrahmsAntigone ChenLeonardo da VinciJadzia DaxSkrain DukatGell KamemorK'EhleyrJames T. KirkKosinskiKrenL'DelBruce MaddoxJunior ManceOzymandiasWilliam T. RikerSarekShinzonBenjamin SiskoNoonien SoongSpockSylixTalysHilar TohmDeanna Troi

Starships and vehicles[]

ArcheusBietasaariUSS Cumberland (runabout) • USS Enterprise-E (Sovereign-class) • Erithacus (Mancharan starcutter) • Faraday (Enterprise-E shuttle) • GyfrinacMendel (Enterprise-E shuttle)
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USS Enterprise (Constitution-class) • USS Enterprise-D (Galaxy-class) • Iacovino (Enterprise-E shuttle) • Riess (Enterprise-E shuttle) • Voyager 6

Locations[]

AbbadonAlpha QuadrantIstarral PrimeMilky Way GalaxyTau Alpha C
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Azure NebulaBeta QuadrantDeep Space 9Earth (ChristchurchJapanCafé du Monde, New Orleans) • Exo IIIGamma QuadrantHellMessier 101OrionSagittarius A*Sagittarius-Carina ArmSector 579-RTerlina IIIVulcan (ShiKahr) • Yutani IIIa

Starship locations[]

arboretumauxiliary controlbridgebrigcockpitcorridorcybernetics labengineeringescape podHappy Bottom Riding Clubholodecklanding baynerve centerobservation loungequartersready roomscience labshuttlebaysickbaytransporter roomturbolift
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lifeboatmess hallshuttle-storage hangarstellar cartography

Races and cultures[]

BajoranBolianCapellan (hologram) • CardassianChelonEfrosianHasturianHuman (Immortal) • IstarralKlingonThallonianTravelerSoong-type androidVulcan
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ArkalianBalduk (hologram) • BetazoidBreenChalnoth (hologram) • DinasianGornHirogen (hologram) • Jem'Hadar (hologram) • Machine RaceNausicaan (hologram) • Romulan

States and organizations[]

Body ElectricFellowship of Artificial IntelligencesStarfleetTraveller ConvocationUnited Federation of Planets
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Borg CollectiveBreen ConfederacyCouncil of the United Federation of PlanetsGorn HegemonyKlingon High CouncilMother of All MachinesQ ContinuumRomulan Star EmpireSpetzkarStarfleet AcademyStarfleet CommandStarfleet MedicalTyphon Pact

Science and classification[]

ablative armourairlockandroidantigravity driveArgelian fluartificial gravityartificial intelligenceastral projectionastronomical unitbiobedbioneural gel packBrovdoss-9 interrogation modelchroniton integratorcombadgecomputer coreconsolecontrol panelcosmic light horizondisruptor pistolDNAdocking clampDyson sphereEmergency Medical Hologramenvironmental suitforce fieldhologramholotronic brainhumanoidhyperwarpimpulse coilimpulse engineinertial dampenerisolinear chiplight-yearM-5 computerthe Machinemaster systems displaymedical tricordernanitepaddphoton torpedoplasma cannonplasma torchpositronic matrixquantum slipstream drivequantum transceiversensorshieldssonic drillspacestarshipstructural integrity fieldsubspacetractor beamtransportertranswarpTrojan horseviewscreenVon Neumann replicatorswarp coilwarp drivewarp nacelle

Occupations and titles[]

admiralambassadorassistant chief engineercaptainchief engineercommanderC-in-Ccounselorensignfirst officerglinnlieutenantlieutenant commandern'iliquendinumber onepraetorpresidentsecurity chiefthot

Other references[]

2380 BCE14th century20th century227329500Altair wateraway teambat'lethboomerangBorg Invasion of 2381bulkheadchegh'lethChristmascoffeecouchDominion WarEnglish languageFederation Standardgreen teaIDICkligatlullabymind meldMorse codepianoraktajinoSOStechnologyThe Bunny Bearviewportweekwineyear

Celestial body classification[]

accretion diskasteroidblack holeclass Mcometgalaxygas giantmoonnebulaorange starplanetred giantsingularitysolar systemstarsupernovauniversewhite dwarfwormholeyellow star

Materials and substances[]

bloodcarboncarbon dioxidechimeriumduraniumglassironmolybdenummonotaniumnitrogenoxygensteeltrioxtritaniumtungstenwater

Appendices[]

Related stories[]

Star Trek: Cold Equations
The Persistence of MemorySilent WeaponsThe Body Electric
Star Trek: The Next Generation novels set after Star Trek Nemesis
Death in WinterResistanceQ & ABefore DishonorGreater Than the SumLosing the PeaceIndistinguishable from MagicCold Equations (The Persistence of MemorySilent WeaponsThe Body Electric) • The Stuff of DreamsThe Light FantasticTakedownArmageddon's ArrowHeadlong FlightHearts and MindsAvailable LightCollateral Damage
Translations[]
2015
German : Diabolus ex Machina, translated by Wibke Sawatzki. (Cross Cult)

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