Editor: Randall Landers
Consultants: Jim Ausfahl & Rob Morris
Proofreader: Selek
Cover Artist: Joseph Melvin
In 2295, deep in the Beta Quadrant, in star cluster NGC-2548, the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise, NCC-1701-B, discovered the lost ship U.S.S. Hyperion, a Federation prototype missing for nearly twenty years. Captain Chekov dispatched his executive officer, Commander Uhura, with orders to get the derelict operational and returned to Earth. Once back at Earth, the Hyperion was readied for reassignment. On January 18th 2296, the U.S.S. Hyperion, NCC-10100, was launched with its new captain, a new crew, and a new five year mission. These are some of the stories of Captain Uhura, Science Officer Drevan, Doctor M'Benga, First Officer Ken Reichard, Chief Engineer Indri, Communications Officer T'Soral, Helmsman James Marsden, Physician's Assistant Harrison "Hardav" Davids, Doctor Giacomo Eletto, Weapons Officer Joe Tucker, Nurse Marie Webb and Assistant Chief Engineer Jesse Running Bear.
AWOL
written by Jim Ausfahl
It's time for a little shore leave on the Hyperion, but things go direly awry when a crewmember is kidnapped, and the crew of the Hyperion decides to manage a rescue, their way
The Weed
written by Jim Ausfahl
Renzal is a colony with a weed problem that is threatening its survival; the Hyperion is sent with an interventional ecologist and a research botanist to control the weed. It looked so easy
Cruithneacht III
written by Jim Ausfahl
The Hyperion is sent with a hold full of seed and plants to rescue a colony whose agriculture is being devastated by a local fungal blight; the only problem is that the colonists won't take charity from anyone.
Fallen Giants
written by Jim Ausfahl
The Klingons are snooping around what look like ancient, technologically advanced cities on a planet whose inhabitants are living at a subsistence agriculture level; the Hyperion crew is sent to see what they can learn, and to help if it is needed
Call from a Duck Blind
written by Jim Ausfahl
Haitz has been at war with itself for too long, and its focus on war has kept it from noticing an oncoming asteroid that promises to wipe them out. Captain Uhura and the Hyperion have been dispatched to try to pull off an impossible rescue, without tipping the population off to the existence of intelligent life off planet
Cover Artwork by Joseph Melvin.
148 pages, 8½" x 11"
size, coil binding.
8½" x 11" size,
coil binding.
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