Star Trek
Tales from the Captain's Table

edited by Keith R.A. DeCandido

an anthology on sale now from Pocket Books

In 2000, the anthology Enterprise Logs provided more adventures of the various captains of ships with that name, from the Revolutionary War and World War II, to the first starship Enterprise skipper, Robert April, to the aforementioned Pike, Kirk, and Picard, to Willard Decker, Spock, John Harriman, and Rachel Garrett.

Since then, several captains have been added to the Star Trek pantheon. In 2000, New Frontier's Commander Shelby got promoted, and was eventually given command of the Trident. That same year saw the debut of Star Trek: S.C.E. and the introduction of Captain David Gold of the da Vinci. The 2001 debut of Enterprise gave us Jonathan Archer. In 2002, Pocket launched the Stargazer series focusing on Jean-Luc Picard's adventures on his first command, and the movie Star Trek Nemesis gave us the long-awaited promotion of William T. Riker, and the movie ended with his going off to take command of the Titan. And then in 2003 we got the launch of my own I.K.S. Gorkon series starring Captain Klag, son of M'Raq; the promotion of Chakotay to captain in the post-finale Voyager novel The Farther Shore; the entry of Bajor into the Federation and the transformation of Kira Nerys from colonel to captain in the Deep Space Nine hardcover Unity; and the Lost Era novel Serpents Among the Ruins ended with Demora Sulu replacing John Harriman as captain of the Enterprise-B.

With all these new captains popping up, I felt that the time was ripe to reopen this unique tavern, so I gathered up a bunch of Trek authors to give these new skippers a chance to belly up to the bar and spin a yarn in an all-new anthology.

Tales from the Captain's Table features nine new stories -- plus an all-new introduction by the man who built the Captain's Table, the miniseries' co-developer Dean Wesley Smith.

The table of contents is as follows:

Introduction by Dean Wesley Smith (The Captain's Table: The Mist)
William T. Riker of the U.S.S. Titan: "Improvisations on the Opal Sea: A Tale of Dubious Credibility" by Michael A. Martin & Andy Mangels (Titan: Taking Wing)
Jean-Luc Picard of the U.S.S. Stargazer: "Darkness" by Michael Jan Friedman (Stargazer: Maker)
Elizabeth Shelby of the U.S.S. Trident: "Pain Management" by Peter David (New Frontier: After the Fall)
Klag, son of M'Raq, of the I.K.S. Gorkon: "loDnI'pu' vavpu' je" by Keith R.A. DeCandido (I.K.S. Gorkon: Enemy Territory)
Kira Nerys of Deep Space 9: "The Officers' Club" by Heather Jarman (DS9: This Gray Spirit)
Jonathan Archer of Enterprise (NX-01): "Have Beagle, Will Travel: The Legend of Porthos" by Louisa M. Swann ("Earthquake Weather" in Strange New Worlds VII)
Demora Sulu of the U.S.S. Enterprise (NCC-1701-B): "Iron and Sacrifice" by David R. George III (The Lost Era: Serpents Among the Ruins)
Chakotay of the U.S.S. Voyager: "Seduced" by Christie Golden (VOY: Spirit Walk)
David Gold of the U.S.S. da Vinci: "An Easy Fast" by John J. Ordover (S.C.E.: Identity Crisis)

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