Star Trek The Next Generation - Losing The Peace

Lieutenant Jasminder Choudhury, chief of security aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise, has come through the Borg invasion alive. Her homeworld, Deneva, has not. The planet was one of the Borg's targets, and its surface has been stripped bare, leaving it uninhabitable and killing everyone who did not get out in time.

Choudhury does not know whether her family was among those who evacuated. She has no way yet to tell if they are displaced or dead.

Her situation is one of many. Hundreds of thousands of refugees now drift through space in search of somewhere safe. Captain Jean-Luc Picard is ordered to do all he can to rescue them and, where necessary, to recover those lost in the invasion.

This Star Trek: The Next Generation novel is set in the aftermath of war rather than during it. Citizens of the Federation face hunger, uncertainty and fear for the first time in generations.

The Federation is wounded but not beaten, and it stands at a dangerous edge. Picard has to weigh an old saying: that those who win a war well rarely make a good peace. The tone is sombre, and the focus falls on loss and the cost of rebuilding.