title: What Would Captain Picard Do?: Captain's Orders from the U.S.S. Enterprise (Star Trek)
author:  Brandon T. Snider 
description: Brandon T. Snider has written several licensed books for Penguin Young Readers, including <i>What Would Captain Kirk Do?, What Would Uncle Grandpa Do?</i>, <i>Game Night: Quips' Book of Questions, Puzzles &amp; Games</i>, and <i>Mordecai and the Rigbys: The Experience</i>.&#160; This is his second Star Trek book.
zlib_text: ## Demmix, the captain thought.
  
  Picard would contact the Stargazer with a com device he had hidden on his
  person. And before long, both he and Demmix would find themselves safely
  aboard the Stargazer.
  
  Simplicity itself.
  
  Or so the captain expected—until he was driven backward by a blinding white,
  shrieking burst of energy. Before he could even wonder what was happening, he
  slammed into something hard, rattling every bone in his head.
  
  Then Picard felt a second impact and realized he had stopped moving. The
  floor, he thought, feeling its flat, reassuring presence beneath him. I’m
  lying on the floor.
  
  It was only then that he opened his eyes and saw the vision of chaos that had
  flattened the landscape of the plaza. There were merchants and kiosks and food
  strewn everywhere, victims of the savage and unexpected blast.
  
  “Him! He’s the one who set off the bomb!”
  
  Picard turned to see who had cried out—and, more important, to whom he was
  referring. To the captain’s surprise, the long, accu