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The security guard cried out in pain and fell to the cavern ground, grabbing his left shoulder with his right hand and dropping his phaser rifle.
As Corsi raised her own rifle to return fire, Ganitriul said, “A security measure has activated. No energy weapons will fire within the confines of the installation.”
Corsi pressed the firing button on her rifle anyhow, but nothing happened. “Dammit,” she muttered.
It was then that the lights came back up.
Sonya blinked the spots out of her eyes and found herself surrounded by twelve Erlikka. Some of them were also blinking—with upper and lower eyelids—in response to the greater illumination. Some were holstering their blasters and unholstering large curved, bladed weapons.
“Death to the aliens!” one of them cried.
Several more repeated, “Death to the aliens!”
Then they charged.
Keith R.A. DeCandido, Kevin Dilmore,
Christie Golden, Dean Wesley Smith,
& Dayton Ward
Based upon STAR TREK® and
STAR TREK:THE NEXT GENERATION®
created by Gene Roddenberry,
and STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE®
created by Rick Berman & Michael Piller
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CONTENTS
The Belly of the Beast
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Fatal Error
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Hard Crash
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Interphase: Book One
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
About the Authors
THE BELLY OF
THE BEAST
Dean Wesley Smith
CHAPTER
1
Space battles never took this long.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard shook his head in amazement as he stared at the main screen of the Enterprise bridge. He couldn’t remember how many times he had been in engagements with enemy ships, with the fight usually only taking a few minutes. But not this time. The monster ship floating in front of them had kept them busy for almost two hours, its dark shape and strange configuration seemingly able to take all the Enterprise could throw at it, and then some.
And, so far, the Enterprise had withstood the enemy’s weapons as well.
Punch, counterpunch. Each ship had held its ground, wearing the other down one degree at a time. And wearing Picard and his crew down as well. Dr. Crusher had just reported