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The Murdered Sun

A race of alien conquerors won’t release the Starship Voyager without a fight!

• Stardate 48897.1
• Released February 1996

When sensors indicate a possible wormhole nearby, Captain Janeway is eager to investigate—hoping to find a shortcut back to the Federation. Instead, she discovers a solar system being systematically pillaged by the warlike Akerians.

The last thing Janeway wants is to get caught up in someone else’s war, but to check out the wormhole—and to protect the innocent inhabitants of Veruna Four—she has no choice but to take on the Akerians.

But who knows what unexpected dangers lurk beneath the crimson glow of the murdered sun?

Written by: Christie Golden

Cast:

• Captain Kathryn Janeway
• Commander Chakotay
• Lieutenant Tuvok
• Lieutenant B’Elanna Torres
• Lieutenant Tom Paris
• Ensign Harry Kim
• The Doctor
• Neelix
• Kes

Guest Cast:

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Excerpt

To Captain Janeway the creature resembled nothing so much as a dragon out of old Earth legends.

But what arms, strong and ending in sharp-clawed fingers, and what a head.

It was snakelike in form, a shapely diamond. Incongruously large, gentle eyes filled with concern graced a head that narrowed into a pointed muzzle. There were no teeth visible at the moment. The back of the head tapered into a long, sinuous neck that broadened at the base to very human-appearing shoulders. A heavy, multifaceted pendant, winking silvery in the light, hung about that throat. A white mane of hair decorated the head and continued down the length of the neck.

Its voice, as translated by the computer, was completely feminine.

“We have picked up your signal, Captain Janeway. Dare we hope that you have come to help us?”