Author Diane Duane brings us a remarkable adventure for the crew of the starship Enterprise as they are ordered to us the new Inversion drive and head outside of the galaxy toward the the lesser mangellanic cloud. They are also ordered to take aboard the new drives creator who we see on the cover behind Kirk and Spock. Along the way they become nothing but have experiences in that nothing which lead them to the point where they meet a species called the Others. The Others where not aware that they where stopping time and breaching into our universe until the Enterprise crew told them so. The Crew and the creator of the new drive help the Others create another universe before heading back to the Milky Way Galaxy and to the Sol system. This is a great book and one not to be missed by any science fiction fans or even Star Trek fans.