{4.5\/5} “More than any being now living, Sarek had shaped the Federation, guiding it in its transition. Under his direction, it had evolved over the past century from an expansionist cobbling-together of idealistic, often unrealistic worlds eager to forge an unprecedented alliance without a clear idea of how that could be accomplished, to a mature and stable institution for which each new admission was a further infusion of strength for the integrated whole.”<\/p>\n
Star Trek: Federation<\/strong> by Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens, published in 1994<\/p>\n After delivering Sarek and the other ambassadors to the Babel conference, Captain Kirk has a new mission. Something is happening in the area where he left Zephram Cochrane and the Companion. He kept the fact that he ran into Cochrane a secret — but someone may have stolen his personal logs.<\/p>\n Ninety-nine years later Captain Picard has mind melded with Sarek to help him with his last negotiation as ambassador. Then he runs into a Ferengi in a stolen Romulan ship who claims to have a piece of Borg technology.<\/p>\n There have been other crossovers between The Original Series<\/strong> and The Next Generation<\/strong>, but this is probably the only time where the whole crew of each ship is involved. They don’t actually meet face to face, but the authors devise a clever way for them to help each other.<\/p>\n There’s some technobabble about warp speed and black holes — other than that, it’s a terrific story.<\/p>\n This is the 2nd time I’ve read it.<\/p>\n