Fortune's Light - Michael Jan Friedman
Chapter One
AS HE FED the holodeck computer all the information he had collected, First Officer William Riker found himself smiling—grinning, in fact, like a little kid.
And why not? He had been waiting a long time for this. It had been nearly a full week since the idea popped into his head, and half his mind had been busy working out the details while the other half saw him through the routine functions of a starship second-in-command.
Of course, in a larger sense, it had been more than a ...