The New Frontier

Name: The New Frontier
Brand: Simon & Schuster Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Peter David
ISBN: 9780743548076

Author: Peter David

Series: Star Trek: Voyager #1

Narrator: Joe Morton

Abridged: 4 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Published: 08/01/1997

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction, Military Science Fiction, Action & Adventure

Synopsis

Sector 221-G: For the whole of Federation history, this large
area of space has been controlled by the Thallonians, a cruel,
militaristic race of which little is knownexcept that they rule
the other races in their sector with vicious iron hand.

Now the Thallonian Empire has collapsed and the systems it once
ruled are in chaos. Old hatreds are surfacing. Petty tyrants
control deadly weapons. World after world is descending into
disorder and self-destruction. The Federation must send a
starship to help where it can and report what it finds.

That ship is the U.S.S. Excalibur, a newly refit Ambassador-class
starship commanded by Captain Mackenzie Calhoun and manned by
Starfleet's best and brightest, including some old friends from
Star Trek: The Next Generation and some of the most dynamic new
characters ever to crew a Federation starship.

Join Captain Calhoun and the crew of the U.S.S. Excalibur as they
explore strange new worlds, seek out new life and new
civilizations, and boldly go where no one has gone before!

About Peter David

Peter David is a prolific writer whose career, and continued popularity, spans more than twenty-five years. He has worked in every conceivable media—television, film, books (fiction, nonfiction, and audio), short stories, and comic books—and acquired followings in all of them.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Alejandro on December 07, 2017

Indeed a new frontier in "Star Trek" franchise! This is the 1st novel in the “Star Trek: New Frontier” book series. FIRST PROSE STAR TREK SERIES This novel was very important for the line of prose novels of Pocket Books about Star Trek. Since before this, there were only prose novels about the o......more

Goodreads review by Jamie on March 26, 2024

Mostly background, this seems like a solid setup for a new series starring a new ship and captain, one created for use in prose novels rather than derived from an existing television series.......more

Goodreads review by C.T. on September 17, 2019

Star Trek: New Frontier is the father of the modern Star Trek Expanded Universe. Much like Timothy Zahn's Thrawn Trilogy created the modern Star Wars Expanded Universe, so did Peter David's adventures of Captain Mackenzie Calhoun and the U.S.S Excalibur create the foundations on which all others wou......more

Goodreads review by Mary JL on April 25, 2011

As a former die-hard Star Trek fan who still enjoys a good story, I picked up the first four books of Peter David's "New Frntier" Star Trek spin-off. I was curious to see what was new. NOt much. Bascially, the story is Star Trek--a few different characters but no major differences from any of the oth......more

Goodreads review by Sean on April 16, 2009

The majority of authors I have read who have dealt with a Star Trek novel have treated the characters and universe itself with some semblance of reverence. "What the hell kind of person was capable of sounding erudite while losing blood out of his face by the pint?" Peter David seems intent on breakin......more