Star Trek New Frontier #1 - House of Cards

Sector 221-G: For the whole of Federation history, this largearea of space has been controlled by the Thallonians, a cruel,militaristic race of which little is knownexcept that they rulethe other races in their sector with vicious iron hand.Now the Thallonian Empire has collapsed and the systems it onceruled are in chaos. Old hatreds are surfacing. Petty tyrantscontrol deadly weapons. World after world is descending intodisorder and self-destruction. The Federation must send astarship to help where it can and report what it finds.That ship is the U.S.S. Excalibur, a newly refit Ambassador-classstarship commanded by Captain Mackenzie Calhoun and manned byStarfleet's best and brightest, including some old friends fromStar Trek: The Next Generation and some of the most dynamic newcharacters ever to crew a Federation starship.Join Captain Calhoun and the crew of the U.S.S. Excalibur as theyexplore strange new worlds, seek out new life and newcivilizations, and boldly go where no one has gone before!