The Death of Princes

The crew of the USS Enterprise must cure a plague – and protect the Prime Directive!

The Death of Princes is a Pocket TNG novel – #44 in the numbered series – written by John Peel. Published by Pocket Books, it was first released in January 1997.

Summary

From the book jacket

Dangerous assignments come in pairs when Captain Picard and his crew are confronted with two desperate missions on two different worlds.

On the planet Buran, newly linked to the Federation, a mysterious disease devastates the population – and turns them against the visitors from the USS Enterprise. Meanwhile, on nearby Iomides, a renegade Federation observer has disappeared, intent on violating the Prime Directive by preventing a tragic political assassination.

While Dr. Crusher struggles to find a cure for the plague ravaging Buran, Commander Will Riker leads an away team to Iomides. Their forces divided, Picard and his crew find themselves the only hope of two worlds.

Background information

• The novel is set before TNG: "Timescape".
• The title references a quote from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare: "The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes."

Characters

Jean-Luc Picard

William T. Riker

Data

Beverly Crusher

Deanna Troi

Worf

Geordi La Forge

Reginald Barclay

Ro Laren

Starn (β)

Maria Wallace

External link

• The Death of Princes at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works