Hearts and Minds

Dayton Ward

May 2017 · Simon and Schuster · Narrated by Robert Petkoff

About this audiobook

An electrifying thriller from New York Times bestselling author Dayton Ward, set in the Star Trek: The Next Generation universe.

2031: United States Air Force fighter jets shoot down an unidentified spacecraft and take its crew into custody. Soon, it’s learned that the ship is one of several dispatched across space by an alien species, the Eizand, to search for a new home before their own world becomes uninhabitable. Fearing extraterrestrial invasion, government and military agencies which for more than eighty years have operated in secret swing into action, charged with protecting humanity no matter the cost...

2386: Continuing their exploration of the Odyssean Pass, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Starship Enterprise discover what they at first believe is a previously uncharted world, with a civilization still recovering from the effects of global nuclear war. An astonishing priority message from Starfleet Command warns that there’s more to this planet than meets the eye, and Picard soon realizes that the mysteries of this world may well weave through centuries of undisclosed human history...

Ratings and reviews

Great series of books. My only irration is they make the Enterprise E, a Sovereign Class, seem like it's a glass cannon. It regularly throughout the series gets beaten to hell by primitive technology and ships. Eg: In Headlong Flight it gets battered by a Romulan ship from 100 years in the past while yet the Enterprise D, a Galaxy Class, defends the E and absolutely kicks the Romulans in the rear. This series makes the E seem like a Constitution Class while the D is portrayed as a warship. Otherwise it's a good series of books

Let's be clear. The cast of tng should be doing their characters lines in these books. But, since they're not, the book itself and the work put into it is worth the time you'll put into listening to this great story.

About the author

Dayton Ward is a New York Times bestselling author or coauthor of more than forty novels and novellas, often with his best friend, Kevin Dilmore. His short fiction has appeared in more than thirty anthologies, and he’s written for magazines such as the NCO Journal, Kansas City Voices, Famous Monsters of Filmland, Star Trek magazine, and Star Trek: Communicator, as well as the websites Tor.com, StarTrek.com, and Syfy.com. A native of Tampa, Florida, he currently lives with his family in Kansas City, Missouri. Visit him on the web at DaytonWard.com.