Star Trek: Strange New Worlds — Ring of Fire
{4.5/5} “I’ve lived most of my life haunted by the knowledge that I killed that beautiful horse… for nothing. Which I might have lived with, if I hadn’t made the same… mistake at Marbas, sixteen years ago Just like with Sable, I pushed too fast and too hard, all to impress some authority figure and stoke my own ego.”
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds — Ring of Fire by David Mack, published in 2025
Captain Pike is ordered to take the Enterprise to the Xephos-Marbus system, where a station is experiencing sabotage. The people on the station are studying a red giant star whose corona is being sucked into a black hole. Pike has been to that system before, and is not very happy to be returning. When Una realizes this, she asks him to confide in her. The story he tells is from 16 years before, when he was a lieutenant on the Chatelet.
It’s about dealing with people whose mission is top secret.
This is the 15th book I’ve read by Mack. I previously reviewed Star Trek: Picard — Firewall.