title: Star Trek: New Frontier: Treason (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
author:  Peter David 
description: Peter David is a prolific writer whose career, and continued popularity, spans more than twenty-five years. He has worked in every conceivable mediatelevision, film, books (fiction, nonfiction, and audio), short stories, and comic booksand acquired followings in all of them.
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  **STAR TREK**
  
  
  NEW FRONTIER®
  
  
  **Treason**
  
  
  **PETER DAVID**
  
  
  **Based upon**
  
  
  **STAR TREK: THE NEXT**
  
  
  **GENERATION** ®
  
  
  **created by Gene Roddenberry**
  
  
  
  
  
  **POCKET BOOKS**
  
  
  **New York London Toronto**
  
  
  **Sydney**
  
  
  
  
  
  _The blackness beckons to hir. It is_
  
  
  _cold and inviting, and s/he is_
  
  
  _greatly tempted to lay down hir_
  
  
  _burden, as hir local religious leader_
  
  
  _used to say. Yet s/he is reluctant to_
  
  
  _do so, because s/he cannot shake_
  
  
  _the belief that there is something_
  
  
  _else for hir to do. S/he just cannot_
  
  
  _seem to remember what it was, or_
  
  
  _is._
  
  
  _S/he tries to haul hirself over to_
  
  
  _the ship’s control console, but hir_
  
  
  _body refuses to acknowledge hir_
  
  
  _brain’s commands. This is not a_
  
  
  _development s/he readily accepts,_
  
  
  _and s/he continues to shout, and_
  
  
  _then to scream, within hir own_
  
  
  _head for hir pain-wracked body to_
  
  
  _do something useful rather than_
  
  
  _just lie there. Hir body ignore