The 12th Star Trek: TNG book.

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Publisher: Pocket Books

Publishing year: 1990

Format: Print

Page count: 276

I read this book when it first came out and even remembered something from it. I think it's set during the second season.

A long-dead species made an artificial world that is now called Kirlos. It has both a Federation embassy and a K'Vin Hegemony embassy. Yes, this book introduces a couple of new humanoid species which we never see again.

The K'Vin are a military race, bent on conquest. Currently, they have an uneasy alliance with the Federation because they don't like how the Federation "meddles". The Sullurh are an unassuming race who serve both the Feredration and the K'Vin embassies.

Kirlos has one underground city. It also has a huge archeological dig. The leading archeologist asks for Geordi LaForge, in the hope that his VISOR can reveal something. Geordi, Data, and Worf beam down to the dig. Meanwhile, the Enterprise-D receives a distress signal and must leave the Kirlos to protect a small colony against an attack by mysterious spaceships.

On Kirlos, someone puts explosives in the Federation embassy. The next day, someone bombs the K'Vin embassy. The civilian population on both sides fears for their safety and needs someone to blame. The K'Vin blame the three Enterprise crewmembers.

This was a solid, quick read. Geordi, Worf, and Data have a few amusing adventures on Kirlos before the tension starts to rise. They're cut off from the other crew, which was a bit unusual. The Federation ambassador is Stephaleh, an elderly Andorian, which was interesting because I haven't seen Andorians much. The two ambassadors have a good relationship which is, of course, strained when the attacks start. The real villains aren't seen until near the end. Unfortunately, the archeological dig wasn't seen much.