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The Expanse

NOVELIZATION
The Expanse

Attribution
Series:	Enterprise
Author(s):	J.M. Dillard
Publication information
Published:	Paperback - October 2003
Pages:	288
ISBN:	ISBN 0-7434-8485-1
EPISODE

Written by:	Rick Berman & Brannon Braga
Directed by:	Allan Kroeker
Episode no.:	2x26 and 3x01
Production no.:	052 and 053
First aired:	The Expanse - 21 May 2003 The Xindi - 10 September 2003
Chronology
Date:	24 April 2153

Novelization of The Expanse and The Xindi.

1 Summary
2 References
3 Appendices
4 Background Information

SummaryEdit

From the back cover: High above the planet Earth, an alien probe appears - and in an unspeakably horrific instant, releases a deadly blast that strafes the planet's surface, leaving a miles-wide, smoldering crater of destruction in its wake. Millions die in Florida, Cuba, and Venezuela, their lives blotted out in a blazing millisecond.

Just as swiftly, the probe implodes and crashes on the planet surface, but the remnants provide no clue as to its origin. Who are the attackers, and what provoked them?

Aboard the Starship Enterprise, Captain Jonathan Archer learns of the destruction. His ship is called home; it is uncertain whether its mission of space exploration will continue.

But before Enterprise reaches Earth, Archer is abruptly kidnapped from the bridge by the time-traveling enemies he has encountered before. He finds himself aboard a Suliban vessel, face-to-face with his old nemesis, Silik, a high-ranking individual in a battle known only as the Temporal Cold War. Silik leads him to his master, a mysterious humanoid from the far future.

The humanoid claims that the attack on Earth was just a test; and the next attack will destroy Archer's home planet... unless he and the Enterprise crew stop it.

To do so, they must enter a region of space called The Expanse - an area so dangerous that no ship has ever emerged from it unscathed. Vulcan crews were driven to bloodthirsty madness, Klingon crews were anatomically inverted, their internal organs exposed outside their bodies... while they still lived. Many vessels were lost, never to be heard from again.

Archer faces the greatest crisis of his career: should he believe Silik's time-traveling master, and expose his ship and crew to the perils of The Expanse, in hopes of saving Earth from destruction? And can he convince Starfleet Command and the Vulcan High Council to let Enterprise go to face her biggest challenge?

ReferencesEdit

CharactersEdit

Jonathan Archer

StarshipsEdit

LocationsEdit

Earth

Florida

Venezuela

Qo'noS

Races and culturesEdit

States and organizationsEdit

OtherEdit

Vulcan neuropressure

AppendicesEdit

Background InformationEdit

This novel is an adaptation of "The Expanse" and "The Xindi", two episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise written by Rick Berman and Brannon Braga.

ImagesEdit

ConnectionsEdit

Star Trek: Enterprise prose publications
Novelizations	Broken Bow • Shockwave • The Expanse
Original novels	By the Book • What Price Honor? • Surak's Soul • Daedalus • Daedalus's Children • Rosetta • Last Full Measure The Good That Men Do • Kobayashi Maru • The Romulan War (Beneath the Raptor's Wing • To Brave the Storm)

published order
Previous episode: Bounty	Enterprise episode produced	Next episode: Anomaly
Previous episode: Bounty	Enterprise episode aired	Next episode: Anomaly
Previous novelization: Shockwave	Enterprise novelizations	Next novelization: Last in Series
chronological order
Previous Adventure: Bounty	Pocket	Next Adventure: Last Full Measure

External linksEdit

The Expanse (novel) article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
The Expanse article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.

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