The final book in the trilogy of the Star Trek Chronicles series.

Part of the Twelve Trials of Triskellion Ficlet Challenge.

SHEPHERD’S REACH

SIXTH CUTTER SQUADRON

The creed of the Border Patrol Service is a simple one:

To save lives. To protect borders. To hold the line.

On the frontier, on the edge of Federation space, stands guard a series of stations and outposts charged with keeping a watchful vigil to be an ever vigilant sentinel. The first line of defence ...

Seven ficlets depicting life on a Space Station Relay Outpost for a newly appointed Lt. Commander. Outpost Shepherd's Reach, the farthest flung and unimportant outpost serving Star Station Hope is not the place of dreams. But it is where one Lt. Commander will make or break her career.

Part Two of Star Trek: Tesseract

In 2378, the crew of the USS Voyager delivered a devastating blow to the Borg Collective when they destroyed a key transwarp hub to the Alpha Quadrant, and the Borg unicomplex.  They hoped it would be the end of the Borg threat.  They were wrong.

Nearly eight years later, the crew of the USS Tesseract -- the first official Starfleet mission of exploration to the Delta Quadrant – has found a quadrant in ruins, torn apart by the Collective and a new, more terrifying kind of Borg -- the Borg Resistance.  They are free of the Collective, free of established protocols, without cohesion or unity, and operating under cloak.  Their new superweapon could put an end to warp society as the galaxy has known it – but it’s also the only thing standing between the Borg Collective and its ultimate goal of assimilating or destroying the entire United Federation of Planets.

Now, while the Federation and its tenuous allies prepare for a full-scale Borg invasion, the Tesseract crew -- alone in the Delta Quadrant -- must find a way to finish what Voyager started, and one young ex-Borg Starfleet officer must decide whether to embrace his destiny ... or boldly defy it.

Time is unraveling.