The Soldiers Of Fear: Invasion! #2 (Star Trek: The Next Generation Book 41)

Long ago, before the dawn of civilization, they were banished to the realm of nightmares. Now the terrors are real . . . A generation ago, another Starship Enterprise TM fought off a ship of exiled aliens intent on conquering all of the Alpha Quadrant. Starfleet thought the foe had been repelled forever — until now. The Furies have returned in might warships even more powerful than before. But their weapons are more than merely physical, for these aliens are the origins of all the demons and monsters of ancient myth, and they have found a way to project fear directly into the minds of their enemies. To defeat the Furies, and save the Federation, Picard and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise TM must first conquer the darkest terrors of their unconscious minds. Part of the first "Star Trek" crossover series in which one story runs through the "Next Generation" and "Deep Space Nine" periods through to "Voyager". Captain Picard learns that the Furies, defeated long ago by Captain Kirk, are back and he launches an investigation that leads to sheer terror. The ancient alien forces known as the Furies have returned, this time with a weapon that allows them to project fear directly into the minds of their enemies, and Captain Picard and his crew find themselves battling an enemy believed to have been conquered a generation earlier Decades after the original starship Enterprise had warded off the conquering Furies, who once owned the entire Alpha Quadrant, Captain Picard and his crew face a second confrontation and become subject to the aliens' mind-altering powers. LIEUTENANT ROBERT C. YOUNG, Bobby to everyone who knew him, sat with his feet on the lip of the console before him.