Smith, Dean Wesley

Dispatched on a secret mission to investigate the raids, Commander Worf and the crew of the Defiant find themselves trapped on an alien world threatened by global cataclysm--trapped along with Klingons who were exiled for their loyalty to Worf's dishonored family.

While searching for a missing friend, Clark, Lana, and Chloe make a horrible discovery, an entire family gruesomely murdered. At the same time, Lex Luthor discovers his tycoon father has been abducted in broad daylight. Now, as Smallville suffers through an April heat wave, two desperate quests to solve these crimes begin and neither Clark's superpowers nor Lex's great wealth can help. It will take Clark's and Lex's relentless determination to solve these crimes.

2017: NEAR THE PLANET URANUS: After a deep-space satellite mysteriously stops transmitting, the Hubble III telescope picks up a startling image. Astronomers don't know what the strange object is--only that it orbits past Earth every two millennia. Meanwhile, archaeologist Leo Cross has discovered peculiar layers of black residue at dig sites around the globe. Stranger still, these thin bands occur like clockwork every 2,006 years, coinciding with some of the world's darkest moments in history. We have six months to prepare for the next arrival. This time we know something is coming. This time we have weapons to defend us. This time we'll be wrong . . . again.

Features nineteen short stories based on characters from the original Star Trek television program and its four spinoff series explore its characters and worlds from various perspectives, written by fans who won a writing contest.