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The USS Voyager is caught between a fleet of hostile aliens and a deadly weapon!
Incident at Arbuk is a Pocket VOY novel – #5 in the numbered series – written by John Gregory Betancourt. Published by Pocket Books, it was first released in November 1995.
Summary
- From the book jacket
- Tracking a shuttle's distress signal to the nearly deserted Arbuk System, the USS Voyager crew encounters an unusual weapon a thousand times more powerful than the starship. Inside, the crew discovers an unconscious alien and no more information about the device. Soon Captain Janeway and her crew are attacked by a group of mysterious warships with an interest in the weapon's power. Now, with warp power offline, the crew of the Starship Voyager must find a way to save themselves from a group of aliens desperate to control the weapon…
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Background information
- This novel's stardate is lower than the stardate of the pilot episode, "Caretaker".
- The author is erroneously credited as "John Greggory Betancourt" on the cover.
Characters
- Kathryn Janeway
- Chakotay
- Tuvok
- Tom Paris
- B'Elanna Torres
- Harry Kim
- Neelix
- The Doctor
- Kes
- Li Wong
- An engineering ensign assigned to help B'Elanna Torres analyze the weapon.
- Peter Dawson
- An engineering ensign assigned to help Torres analyze the weapon.
- Marta Dvorak
- Officer on the USS Voyager
- Mark Johnson
External link
- Incident at Arbuk at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
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