Breakdowns

The surviving crew of the USS Da Vinci must try to recover from their devastating mission to Galan VI. Corsi returns home to try to mend a long-standing rift with her father; while Abramowitz becomes embroiled in a complex problem on a mysterious alien world. But Commander Gomez faces the most difficult test of all: how can she deal with her grief at the death of Lieutenant Commander Duffy?

Scott Ciencin is a New York Times best-selling author of adult and children's fiction. Praised by Science Fiction Review as "one of today's finest fantasy writers" and listed in the Encyclopedia of Fantasy, Scott has written over fifty novels and many short stories and comic books. He has written in many shared worlds, including Star Wars, Dinotopia, Transformers, EverQuest, Charmed, Godzilla, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Angel. He is the co-author with Dan Jolley of the Star Trek: S.C.E. adventure Some Assembly Required, and his original Dinoverse series has been optioned by Critical Hit Entertainment. Scott lives in Fort Myers, Florida, with his beloved wife, Denise. Keith R.A. DeCandido is the co-developer of the Star Trek: S.C.E. series, with John J. Ordover, and, in addition to Breakdowns, he has written or cowritten the stories Fatal Error, Cold Fusion, Invincible, Here There Be Monsters, and War Stories; his next S.C.E. tale will be Security, coming in July 2005 in eBook form. His other Star Trek work includes the novels Diplomatic Implausibility, Demons of Air and Darkness, The Art of the Impossible, and A Time for War, A Time for Peace; the cross-series duology The Brave and the Bold; the Ferenginar portion of Worlds of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Volume 3; short fiction in What Lay Beyond, Prophecy and Change, No Limits, and Tales of the Dominion War (which he also edited); the comic book miniseries Perchance to Dream; and the first three I.K.S. Gorkon books (A Good Day to Die, Honor Bound, and Enemy Territory), an ongoing series of novels taking place on board a Klingon ship. Forthcoming Treks include Articles of the Federation (a look at the Federation's government) and Tales from the Captain's Table (an anthology of stories featuring various Trek captains), with others in development beyond that. Keith has also written novels, novelizations, short stories, and nonfiction books in the media universes of Farscape, Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda, Marvel Comics, Resident Evil, Xena, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Serenity, and more. His original novel Dragon Precinct was published in 2004 and his award-nominated original SF anthology Imaginings was published in 2003. Find out more silly things about him at DeCandido.net. After fifteen years as a newspaper reporter and editor, Kevin Dilmore turned his full attention to his freelance writing career in 2003. Since 1997, he has been a contributing writer to Star Trek Communicator, writing news stories and personality profiles for the bimonthly publication of the Official Star Trek Fan Club. Look for Kevin's interviews with some of Star Trek's most popular authors in volumes of the Star Trek Signature Editions. On the fictional side of things, his story "The Road to Edos" was published in the Star Trek: New Frontier anthology No Limits. With Dayton Ward, he has also written the novels A Time to Sow and A Time to Harvest, seven other Star Trek: S.C.E. eBooks, and a story for the anthology Star Trek: Tales of the Dominion War. A graduate of the University of Kansas, Kevin lives in Prairie Village, Kansas, with his wife, Michelle, and their three daughters. Heather Jarman grew up fantasizing about being a writer the way many little girls fantasize about being ballerinas and princesses; she had all the lyrics to the Beatles's "Paperback Writer" memorized by age six. But in her wildest childhood dreams, she had no idea how Saturday afternoons spent lazing in her beanbag chair watching Star Trek would dramatically impact her lifelong aspiration. Indeed, the Star Trek universe played host to her professional fiction debut, This Gray Spirit, the second novel in the critically acclaimed Mission: Gamma series of Deep Space Nine books set after the TV series. She's also written Paradigm, the Andor part of the Worlds of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine miniseries, and contributed "The Devil You Know" to Prophecy and Change, the DS9 tenth anniversary anthology. With Jeffrey Lang, she collaborated on "Mirror Eyes" for Tales of the Dominion War. Forthcoming in 2005 are short stories in the Tales from the Captain's Table and Distant Shores anthologies, and co-authoring with Jeffrey Lang and Kirsten Beyer a Voyager trilogy written in honor of that show's tenth anniversary. She lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband and four daughters. She rarely finds time to lounge about in beanbag chairs these days, much to her regret. Dayton Ward has been a fan of Star Trek since conception (his, not the show's). After serving for eleven years in the U.S. Marine Corps, he discovered the private sector and the piles of cash to be made there as a software engineer. He got his start in professional writing by having stories selected for each of Pocket Books's first three Star Trek: Strange New Worlds writing contests. In addition to his various writing projects with Kevin Dilmore (see Kevin's bio above), Dayton is the author of the Star Trek novel In the Name of Honor and the science fiction novels The Last World War and The Genesis Protocol. Though he currently lives in Kansas City with his wife, Michi, Dayton is a Florida native and still maintains a torrid long-distance romance with his beloved Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Readers interested in contacting Dayton or learning more about his writing are encouraged to venture to his Internet cobweb collection at http://www.daytonward.com.