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Book Review of House of Cards (Star Trek New Frontier, No 1)

House of Cards (Star Trek New Frontier, No 1)
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For the whole of Federation history, this large area of space has been controlled by the Thallionians, a cruel, militaristic race of which little known except that they rule the other races in their sector with a vicious iron hand. Now the Thollonian Empire has collapsed and the systems it once ruled are in chaos. Old hatreds are surfacing. Petty tryants control deadly weapons. World after world is decending into disorder and self-destruction. The Federation must send a starship to help where it can and report back what it finds. That ship is the U.S.S. Excalibur, a newly refit Ambassador class starship commanded by Captain Mackenzie Calhoun and manned by Starfleet's best and brightest, including some old friends from Star Trek: The Nex Generation and some of the most dynamic new characters to ever crew a Federation starship.