Star Trek New Frontier #11: Excalibur #3: Restoration

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The ever resourceful Captain Mackenzie Calhoun abruptly finds himself at a loss -- marooned on he primitive outback world of Yakaba after his ship, Excalibur, is destroyed by deadly sabotage. He is separated from his loyal first officer, Shelby, who has gone one to command the Exeter and is certain that Calhoun has been blasted into oblivion. On Yakaba's dry frontier, Calhoun meets and befriends Shula, an extraordinary woman beset by enemies trying to control or destroy her and her gift -- summoning rain to her parched homeland. Trapped on this hostile world, unable to relay to his people that he survived their ship's cataclysm, Calhoun must stand against countless adversaries who will stop at nothing to gain power or keep it from others. Life and death hang in the balance. Out in the distance, mourning but determined to move on, Shelby must discover what sort of captain she really is.


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"He died heroically. All of us should only be so fortunate as to have that opportunity", said MacKenzie Calhoun, five minutes before the Excalibur blew up. Thus ended Dark Allies, the eighth book in Peter David's stunning New Frontier saga. The popular Captain Calhoun has been presumed dead. Until now. In this pulse-pounding conclusion to the bestselling Excalibur trilogy, it becomes apparent that Calhoun did manage to escape his ship's cataclysmic demise -- if only to end up marooned on the primitive outback world of Yakaba. Here, he befriends Shula, a woman with the strange and inexplicable ability to summon rain for her parched and struggling frontier community. Shula's powers, however, have made her the target of jealous foes who will stop at nothing to seize control of her telekinetic gifts -- or destroy them forever. Stranded on this hostile planet, Calhoun is drawn helplessly into a life-or-death struggle against a sinister band of enemies. Meanwhile, in his absence, former First Officer Shelby is struggling valiantly with the challenges of her first command on the U.S.S. Exeter. Packed with mystery, action, fascinating Star Trek lore, and high-stakes danger, this thrilling culmination to the unforgettable Excalibur trilogy brings the excitement of Star Trek fiction to unprecedented new heights.


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Restoration completes the three-volume Excalibur adventure (along with Requiem and Renaissance). This third volume ties up the loose ends from the two earlier volumes in which the former crewmembers of Captain Mackenzie Calhoun's USS Excalibur carry on their lives after the destruction of the Excalibur and the apparent death of Calhoun. In fact, Calhoun survives and is marooned on a technologically and socially backward planet. Meanwhile, Captain Elizabeth Shelby, Calhoun's former First Officer and fiancée, takes command of a starship and finds herself acting more like Calhoun than she would like. Calhoun, for his part, begins to behave more like Shelby as he acts very much in accordance with the Federation's Prime Directive. In the end, the old crew of the Excalibur is reunited at the christening of a new USS Excalibur just as Calhoun suddenly arrives. (Star Trek: New Frontier, #11: Excalibur, Bk. 3) Category: Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror. KLIATT Codes: JSA—Recommended for junior and senior high school students, advanced students, and adults. 2001, Pocket Books, 410p., $6.99. Ages 13 to adult. Reviewer: Hugh M. Flick, Jr.; Silliman College, Yale Univ., New Haven, CT SOURCE: KLIATT, March 2002 (Vol. 36, No. 2)


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