Belle Terre is a Star Trek: New Earth

Star Trek: New Earth

Star Trek: New Earth is a series of Star Trek novels published by Pocket Books in the United States, as part of Pocket’s Star Trek: The Original Series line. Based on the titular TV series created by Gene Roddenberry, New Earth was created by Pocket editor John J...

novel written by Dean Wesley Smith

Dean Wesley Smith

Dean Wesley Smith is a science fiction author, known primarily for his Star Trek novels, movie novelizations, and other novels of licensed properties such as Smallville, Spider-Man, X-Men, Aliens, Roswell, Men in Black, and Quantum Leap...

 and Diane Carey

Diane Carey

Diane Carey is primarily a science fiction author best known for her work in the Star Trek franchise. She has been the lead-off writer for two Star Trek spin-off book series: Star Trek The Next Generation with Star Trek: Ghost Ship, and the novelization of the Star Trek: Enterprise pilot, Broken...

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Plot

The Enterprise is leading thirty-thousand colonists on a six month trip to establish an strategically important colony. Just after they make their first attempts at settling in, Spock discovers a nearby moon has two important features. It is made of a very valuable ore and is also unstable. If it blows, all the colonists will be killed.

Production

In Voyages of Imagination

Voyages of Imagination

Voyages of Imagination is a Star Trek reference guide written by Jeff Ayers. It covers every Star Trek novel published up to 2006 with interviews from authors and editors...

, Dean Wesley Smith reflects: "Kris

Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Kristine Kathryn Rusch is an American writer. She writes under various pseudonyms in multiple genres, including science fiction, fantasy, mystery, romance, and mainstream....

 and I wrote book five in that series as well, but Diane was supposed to write one, two, and six. The first book turned out to be harder than she expected, so John

John J. Ordover

John J. Ordover is the founder and CEO of JJO MARKETING and was previously an editor at Pocket Books responsible for overseeing the licensed novels of the Star Trek franchise. He is the co-creator of such spin-off series as Star Trek: New Frontier , Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers and Star...

and her called me in to write book two from her outline, and then we worked on it together some, I think. Memory fades."