Bücher der Reihe Star Trek: The Next Generation

T he fast-changing business world of today is far different from just a few years ago. Success in today's marketplace requires new leadership techniques, new thinking, and an eye on the future . . . . In Make It So: Leadership Lessons from Star Trek: The Next Generation®, Wess Roberts and coauthor Bill Ross take their inspiration from today's most striking and most popular vision of the future -- Star Trek -- an unprecedented television, feature film and publishing phenomenon. From the top-rated television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, Roberts and Ross find a new symbol for successful leadership: Captain Jean-Luc Picard. As entertaining as it is useful, Make It So captures the mythos of Star Trek: The Next Generation as it delivers dramatically rich lessons on leadership, including the importance of the ability to focus on a single "mission," effective communication, teamwork, honor . . . and other important concepts. The examples are taken from the on-screen adventures of Captain Picard and the Starship EnterpriseTM, but the lessons and the benefits are real -- and can be applied to everyday situations where the goal is the kind of high-performance organization embodied by the crew of the U.S.S. EnterpriseTM 1701-D. Sure to appeal to Star Trek enthusiasts and serious students of leadership alike, Make It So is the most exciting business book on the shelves -- the one book that shows the future of modern leadership while giving managers the tools they need for success today!

Das Glück ist Lieutenant Jasminder Choudhury, der Sicherheitschefin der U.S.S. Enterprise, hold gewesen. Sie hat überlebt. Doch für ihre Heimatwelt, Deneva, die wie viele andere Planeten während der gewaltigen Borg-Invasion ins Zielfeuer geriet, gilt das nicht. Alles Leben auf der Oberfläche wurde ausgelöscht und der Planet unbewohnbar gemacht. Jeder, der nicht rechtzeitig evakuiert werden konnte, wurde getötet. Choudhury steht nun vor der Frage, ob ihre Familie zu den Geretteten gehört. Oder, ob sie sie alle für immer verloren hat.Die Enterprise ist nur ein Schiff, und Jasminder Choudhury ist nur ein Offizier, doch ihre Geschichte wiederholt sich überall in der gesamten Galaxis immer und immer wieder. Hunderttausende evakuierter Personen sind überall verstreut und suchen nach einem sicheren Ort, an dem sie Trost finden können. Captain Jean-Luc Picard erhält den Befehl, alles ihm Mögliche zu tun, um die verlorenen Seelen der Borg-Invasion aufzuspüren und zu retten.Zum ersten Mal seit Generationen, erleben die Bürger der Föderation Not, Ungewissheit und Angst. Blutig und dennoch ungebrochen steht die Föderation am Rande eines Abgrunds. Der Captain der Enterprise befindet sich in einer wenig beneidenswerten Lage und muss sich fragen, ob es wahr ist, dass diejenigen, die gut darin sind, einen Krieg zu gewinnen, schlecht darin sind, den Frieden zu bewahren.

The Star Trek: The Next Generation® Technical Manual, written by Rick Sternbach and Michael Okuda, the technical advisors to Star Trek: The Next Generation, provides a comprehensive schematization of a Galaxy-class starship. From the bridge to the shuttlebays, from the transporter room to crews' quarters, this book provides a never-before-seen glimpse at the inner, intricate workings of the most incredible starship ever conceived. Full of diagrams, technical schematics, and ship's plans, the Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual also takes a detailed look at the principles behind Star Trek®'s awesome technology -- from phasers to warp drive to the incredible holodeck.

Captain Jean-Luc Picard und die Besatzung der Enterprise entdecken etwas, das sie zuerst für eine bisher unentdeckte Welt halten, mit einer Zivilisation, die sich noch von den Auswirkungen eines globalen Nuklearkriegs erholt. Eine erstaunliche Botschaft aus dem Sternenflottenkommando warnt, dass mehr hinter diesem Planeten steckt, als auf den ersten Blick zu erkennen ist, und schnell wird Picard klar, dass die Geheimnisse dieser Welt mit Jahrhunderten geheim gehaltener menschlicher Geschichte in Verbindung steht ...

Captain Jean-Luc Picard und seine Besatzung entdecken ein gigantisches fremdes Schiff, das schon seit Jahrzehnten durch die Leere des Alls treibt. Die Sensoren empfangen an Bord des Wracks Lebenszeichen - Angehörige einer fremden Spezies im Kälteschlaf.Obwohl es wie ein riesiges Schläferschiff aussieht, handelt es sich in Wirklichkeit um eine Waffe mit der Möglichkeit, ganze Welten auszulöschen ... die letzte Kriegslist aus der Zeit eines Konflikts, der über Generationen hinweg in einem System in der Nähe geführt wurde. Die Waffe selbst stammt aus der Zukunft und wurde nur aus einem Grund in der Zeit zurückgeschickt: den interplanetaren Krieg zu beenden, bevor er überhaupt beginnt!

On the cusp of their epic battle with Shinzon, many of Captain Jean-Luc Picard's long-time crew were heading for new assignments and new challenges. Among the changes were William Riker's promotion to captain and his new command, Riker's marriage to Counselor Deanna Troi, and Dr. Beverly Crusher's new career at Starfleet Medical. But the story of what set them on a path away from the Starship Enterprise(TM) has never been told.UNTIL NOW. The site of one of the Dominion War's fiercest battles, the Rashanar Sector now contains a vast interstellar graveyard littered with the lifeless hulks of hundreds of devastated starships. The explosive destruction of so many varied warp drives has severely distorted the space-time continuum in this region, resulting in dangerous unleashed energies and bizarre gravitational anomalies. The Enterprise has been assigned to patrol the perimeter of the danger zone, while other vessels carry out the difficult and highly hazardous task of retrieving the bodies of the dead from the wrecked warships. To some alien races, the former battleground is hallowed space. To others, including the rapacious Androssi, it is a scavenger's paradise, ripe for salvage. None expect this ship's graveyard to hold a deadly secret that will force the android Data to make a heart-wrenching decision about the path his life will take -- and that will endanger not only the Enterprise, but Picard's future in Starfleet.

SINS OF COMMISSIONwhile on a misssion to save the planet Lessenar from environmental collapse, the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise™ is crippled by an emotional onslaught as the surviving aliens respond in anger and pain to the death of their comrade.Worf must overcome this alien influence and find the true killer with the destruction of the Starship Enterprise, the survival of Lessenar, and his Klingon honor hanging in the balance....

With their sun about to go nova, the people of Epictetus III face annihilation. Although the U.S.S. Enterprise™ has come to lead the rescue operation, there is no way to evacuate a population of over twenty million, leaving Captain Picard to make an agonizing decision. Should he try to salvage the planet's children, its greatest leaders and thinkers, or its irreplaceable archeological treasures? No matter what he decides, millions must be sacrificed -- unless another solution can be found.With time running out, Data proposes a revolutionary scientific experiment that could save all of Epictetus III, or doom both the planet and the Enterprise as well.

The United Federation of Planets and the Klingon Empire stand on the brink of war. Captain James T. Kirk and the Starship Enterprise(TM) are sent back to System 7348 -- site of a previous skirmish with the Klingons -- for a confrontation with the I.K.S. D'k Tahg under the command of Captain Koloth. Even as the two great ships face each other, trouble is brewing among their crews. On the Enterprise, Lieutenant Leslie Parrish is pregnant with a half-Klingon child and must face a critical decision about her future, while Section Chief Michael Fuller still carries the wounds of the twenty-five-year-old Battle of Donatu V, of which he was one of the few survivors -- not to mention his grief over the death of his son, recently killed in battle against the Klingons. On the D'k Tahg, First Officer Karel finds himself trapped between the scheming, dishonorable Councillor Duras and his commanding officer, Koloth. While the stakes only seem to be the possession of a single star system, the ramifications may spread throughout the Klingon Empire, as they find themselves at a crossroads between conquest and honor!

"Based upon Star Trek and Star Trek: the next generation created by Gene Roddenberry."

To mark the 20th Anniversary of Star Trek: The Next Generation-a sparkling anthology of untold tales from Star Trek's best-loved incarnation.

William Riker, former first officer of the USS Enterprise in Star Trek: The Next Generation, takes command of the new USS Titan in this white-knuckled adventure perfect for longtime and new Star Trek fans.After almost a decade of strife against foes such as the Borg, the Cardassians, the Klingons, and the Dominion, the United Federation of Planets is at the dawn of a new era. Starfleet is renewing its mission of peaceful exploration, diplomacy, and the expansion of knowledge. Among the starships spearheading that endeavor is the USS Titan, commanded by Captain William T. Riker and manned by the most biologically varied and culturally diverse crew in Starfleet history. But their mission does not begin according to plan. In the wake of Star Trek: Nemesis, Praetor Shinzon, slayer of the Romulan Senate, is dead. The power vacuum created by his demise has put the Romulan Star Empire, longtime adversary of the Federation, at the brink of civil war. Competing factions now vie for control of their fragmenting civilization, and if the empire should fall, that entire area of the galaxy may destabilize. To restore order to the region, Titan's long-anticipated mission of exploration is delayed as Starfleet assigns Riker to set up power-sharing talks among the Romulan factions. But even as the first tentative steps are taken toward building a new Romulus, the remnants of the Tal Shiar, the dreaded Romulan intelligence service, are regrouping behind the scenes for a power play of their own. With no other help available, Riker and the Titan crew become the last hope to prevent the quadrant from falling into chaos.

"Based upon Star Trek: the Next Generation created by Gene Roddenberry."

Continuing the mission he began in "Unification," Starfleet Ambassador Spock endeavors to impart the logic of the Vulcan way to a small band of Romulans eager to unite the Romulan Empire and the planet Vulcan. But unbeknownst to them, a Romulan spy has joined the ranks disguised as a Unification sympathizer. Deceived by this traitor, Spock and his students are taken hostage.Fearful that Spock's knowledge of Federation security will fall into enemy hands, Starfleet dispatches its best ship, the U.S.S. EnterpriseTM 1701-D, and most respected captain, Jean-Luc Picard, to secure the hostages' release. Spock's former shipmate from the original Starship EnterpriseTM, Ambassador McCoy -- over one hundred forty years old, but still as feisty as ever -- is brought in to consult on the negotiations.Their situation is further complicated when Captain Montgomery Scott confiscates an out-of-service starship and effects his own daring rescue of Spock. Picard must now find a way to preserve the Federation's security and prevent a war while treading a mindfield of danger and deadly Romulan politics that threaten his ship, his crew, and the Federation he serves.

Krenn, a Klingon captain, faces a test of conscience, when he learns of a Klingon plan to destroy the Federation, in The Final Reflection, and when the discovery of an ancient scroll threatens the Klingon legend of Kahless, the present-day emperor Kahless clone turns to Picard and Worf for assistanc