Shockwave (Star Trek novel)

Shockwave

File:Shockwave Trek cover.jpg
Author	Paul Ruditis
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	Star Trek: Enterprise
Genre	Science fiction novel
Publisher	Pocket Books
Publication date	October 2002 (hardback) July 2004 (paperback)
Media type	Print (Paperback)
Pages	305 pp
ISBN	0-7434-6456-7 (first edition, paperback)
OCLC	55699307
Preceded by	By the Book
Followed by	What Price Honor?

Shockwave is a Star Trek: Enterprise novel, which was released in October 2002 (hardback) and July 2004 (paperback).

Plot

The Starship Enterprise NX-01 makes contact with the Paraagan deep-space colony. It is a matriarchal society with an unusually volatile gas. The Enterprise crew understands the danger and makes the precuation to their shuttle as they land, closing the plasma vents so nothing dangerous can escape.

An explosion occurs, vaprozing thirty-six hundrec colonosts. The entire surface is destroyed.

The Enterprise is recalled and Captain Archer must convince his superiors and the Vulcan high command that despite this incident, humans are still ready and able to explore space.

And yet, this is not the events history records. The mysterious time traveling Enterprise crewman, Daniels, offers information suggestion the timeline is altered. Captain Archer sets out to do what he can to prove the Enterprise innocent.

External links

• Shockwave (novel) at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)
• Shockwave at Memory Beta