First contact becomes an interstellar incident when the Starship Enterprise responds to a distress call from an unknown ship and saves the life of a man left to die by his own people. Berlis, a member of a telepathic species calling themselves the Isitri, claims not to know why those from his homewo[...]

The Corps of Engineers team on the da Vinci starship takes on some of its greatest challenges, from a runaway colony ship to fixing an artificial planetary ring, from weapons inspection to clearing a field of dead ships, and from solving a centuries-old medical mystery to a life-or-death struggle to[...]