Star Trek: A Time to...

Production

The first book in the series, A Time to Be Born by John Vornholt, picks up after a brutal fight in the Rashanar sector during the Dominion War. That battle left the area packed with wrecked ships, and the region is choked with electromagnetic disturbances that have wrecked many salvage attempts. Androssi pirates have been scavenging the graveyard for useful tech.

The Enterprise is sent to patrol the site and recover the bodies of dead Starfleet personnel. Not long after they arrive, weird things start happening inside the battle zone, forcing the crew to investigate while also keeping the peace with locals from a nearby planet. A mysterious ghost ship starts destroying both salvage vessels and pirates.

As the Enterprise digs deeper, there are fears it might be a Founder weapon, and the crew tries to figure out what the ship really is. Starfleet questions the crew's findings, and political friction grows between Picard and the Admiralty. The Traveler and Wesley Crusher, who is now also a Traveler, watch the events unfold.

A Time to Die

In Vornholt's follow-up, A Time to Die, Captain Picard is held for psychiatric evaluation while his crew tries to keep things running. With some help from the Traveler, Picard and the crew get a chance to prove they weren't acting out of line during their time at the Rashanar battle site.

A Time to Sow and A Time to Harvest

A Time to Sow and A Time to Harvest, written by Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore, find Picard and his crew cleared of attacks on the Onatailians but still shunned. They are sent to an unexplored sector as punishment, tasked with finding the remains of a civilization that should have died out two hundred years ago. When they get there, the Dokaalans are still alive. This peaceful society is under heavy stress from a recent string of accidents, and the Enterprise has to help them.

A Time to Love and A Time to Hate

A Time to Love and A Time to Hate, by Robert Greenberger, sees the Enterprise save the Dokaalans from being exploited by another race. After that, the ship is sent on another unwanted mission. Delta Sigma IV was once seen as a perfect example of interspecies cooperation, where two rival species, the Dorset and the Bader, made peace and built their own colony. Just as the planet is about to celebrate, a murder happens—the first one in over a hundred years.