Plagues of Night

Plagues of Night is a novel by David R. George III, forming part of the Star Trek: Typhon Pact series and the first in a two-novel sequence.

The novel was announced by George on, with the details of the series revealed at the Shore Leave Convention on , and the working titles on. 

Official Pocket documentation - including the author's contract and sales catalog entries - carried a placeholder title of At the Prophet's Door, and listed it as a Pocket TNG novel, later under the umbrella title Chain of Destiny; however, George confirmed that these were internal designations for the purpose of labeling, and not indicative of the final novel. 

Summary

 * Solicitation blurb
 * The first novel in a two-part Typhon Pact adventure set in the universe of Star Trek: The Next Generation!


 * In the wake of the final Borg invasion, which destroyed entire worlds, cost the lives of sixty-three billion people, and struck a crippling blow to Starfleet, six nations adversarial to the United Federation of Planets – the Romulan Star Empire, the Breen Confederacy, the Tholian Assembly, the Gorn Hegemony, the Tzenkethi Coalition, and the Holy Order of the Kinshaya – joined ranks to form the Typhon Pact.


 * For almost three years, the Federation and the Klingon Empire, allied under the Khitomer Accords, have contended with the nascent coalition on a predominantly cold-war footing. But as Starfleet rebuilds itself, factions within the Typhon Pact grow restive, concerned about their own inability to develop a quantum slipstream drive to match that of the Federation. Will leaders such as UFP President Bacco and RSE Praetor Kamemor bring about a lasting peace across the Alpha and Beta Quadrants, or will the cold war between the two alliances deepen, and perhaps even lead to an all-out shooting war?

Characters

 * Benjamin Sisko
 * Jean-Luc Picard
 * Kira Nerys
 * Ro Laren
 * Spock
 * Worf
 * Julian Bashir
 * Quark
 * Kasidy Yates
 * Martok
 * Rom
 * Sela
 * Tomalak
 * Laas
 * Sarina Douglas
 * Alynna Nechayev
 * Morn
 * Broik
 * Grimp
 * Frool
 * D'Tan
 * Taurik
 * Brathaw
 * Pardshay
 * Aluura

Background information

 * A preliminary cover was released in December 2011 and featured Deep Space 9, the USS Defiant (2375), a runabout, and another starship entering or leaving the Bajoran wormhole. The author confirmed that the  starship is the USS Robinson (NCC-71842), which Benjamin Sisko assumed command of in Rough Beasts of Empire.
 * This book takes place after Zero Sum Game and Paths of Disharmony. It also takes place during and after Indistinguishable from Magic.