Author Michael Jan Friedman brings us the second book in the Stargazer series. Captain Picard and his crew are split up due to his chief engineer needing to get home to preform a ceremony that will make sure that his bloodline continues. While Commander Wu, the Stargazer's second officer is ordered to take the ship and help them rescue a science vessel that go stuck in a cosmic sink hole. There are two gust appearances by characters like Rachel Garret who will later on command the Enterprise-C and Magus Hanson who will be Seven of Nine's father. This is a great book in a great series about Captain Picard's first command and I look forward to reading the rest of this short lived series.