Chapter One
On more than one occasion, mostly during the early years of her career,
Commander Sonya Gomez had experienced feelings of helplessness in the midst of a
crisis. As she stood on the bridge of the U.S.S. Defiant and studied the
surreal image displayed on its main viewer, such feelings once again taunted her
and dared her to submit to their stifling embrace.
Along with Captain David Gold and Soloman, she watched as the interdimensional
rift continued to mend itself, sealing the Defiant inside this pocket of
chaos ambiguously known as "interphase" and separating them from the U.S.S.
da Vinci and their entire universe. At the moment, helplessness seemed
almost appropriate.
The mission, like so many others Gomez had undertaken since joining the
Starfleet Corps of Engineers, had started out easily enough. Daunting and
compelling from both technical and historical perspectives, the task of
retrieving the Defiant had energized the entire da Vinci crew,
from Captain Gold on down. The recovery of the fabled ship, lost for more than a
century after becoming trapped in an interspatial pocket connecting this
universe with another, presented a unique engineering chal ... read full excerpt from Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers #5: Interphase Book 2 ebook
