String Theory, Book 1 Cohesion (Star Trek: Voyager)
Prologue
Disaster minus 14 minutes
Mateo did not like the captain leaving the ship.
True, the aliens had not committed any overtly
threatening acts, but he thought that Captain
Ziv was displaying unwarranted trust. As
impressive as these wayfarers were, Mateo
believed they were making unbelievable claims,
not the least being that their tiny ship was
able to attain faster-than-light velocities,
but, oh, not right at the moment because of some
as-yet-undefined, unfathomable peculiarity about
local space. So fiercely skeptical was the first
officer that the hair was literally standing up
on the sides of his neck.
On the other hand, Mateo had not had any
particular desire to leave the vessel either,
which would have been his fate if the captain
weren't so curious about (and ... read full excerpt from Star Trek Voyager: String Theory, Book 1: Cohesion ebook