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NOVELIZATION
The Expanse
Attribution
Series:	Enterprise
Author(s):	J.M. Dillard
Publication information
Published:	Paperback - October 2003
Pages:	288
ISBN:	ISBN 0-7434-8485-1
EPISODE

Novelization of The Expanse and The Xindi.

Summary

From the back cover 

High above the planet Earth, an alien probe appears - and in an unspeakably horrific instant, releases a deadly blast that strafes the planet's surface, leaving a miles-wide, smoldering crater of destruction in its wake. Millions die in Florida, Cuba, and Venezuela, their lives blotted out in a blazing millisecond.

Just as swiftly, the probe implodes and crashes on the planet surface, but the remnants provide no clue as to its origin. Who are the attackers, and what provoked them?

Aboard the Starship Enterprise, Captain Jonathan Archer learns of the destruction. His ship is called home; it is uncertain whether its mission of space exploration will continue.

But before Enterprise reaches Earth, Archer is abruptly kidnapped from the bridge by the time-traveling enemies he has encountered before. He finds himself aboard a Suliban vessel, face-to-face with his old nemesis, Silik, a high-ranking individual in a battle known only as the Temporal Cold War. Silik leads him to his master, a mysterious humanoid from the far future.

The humanoid claims that the attack on Earth was just a test; and the next attack will destroy Archer's home planet... unless he and the Enterprise crew stop it.

To do so, they must enter a region of space called The Expanse - an area so dangerous that no ship has ever emerged from it unscathed. Vulcan crews were driven to bloodthirsty madness, Klingon crews were anatomically inverted, their internal organs exposed outside their bodies... while they still lived. Many vessels were lost, never to be heard from again.

Archer faces the greatest crisis of his career: should he believe Silik's time-traveling master, and expose his ship and crew to the perils of The Expanse, in hopes of saving Earth from destruction? And can he convince Starfleet Command and the Vulcan High Council to let Enterprise go to face her biggest challenge?

References

Characters

Main

• Jonathan Archer
• Travis Mayweather
• Phlox
• Malcolm Reed
• Hoshi Sato
• T'Pol
• Charles Tucker III
• Joss Hayes

Other characters

• Kiaphet Amman'sor
• Hideaki Chang
• Degra
• Dolim
• Duras, son of Toral
• Fer'at
• Maxwell Forrest
• Future Guy
• S. Money
• Jannar
• Nelson Kemper
• Kessick
• Carlos Ramirez
• Romero
• Silik
• Soval
• Elizabeth Tucker

Starships

• Columbia (NX-02) - NX class
• Enterprise (NX-01) - NX class
• Intrepid
• Suliban Cell-ship
• Xindi probe
• Klingon Bird-of-Prey

Locations

• Delphic Expanse
• Sol System

• Earth

Florida

Venezuela

• Qo'noS

Races and cultures

• Denobulan
• Human
• Klingon
• Suliban
• Vulcan
• Xindi

• Xindi-Aquatic
• Xindi-Arboreal
• Xindi-Insectoid
• Xindi-Primate
• Xindi-Reptilian

States and organizations

• Earth Starfleet
• Klingon Empire
• Suliban Cabal
• Vulcan High Command
• Vulcan Ministry of Information

Other

• Vulcan neuropressure

Appendices

Background Information

This novel is an adaptation of "The Expanse" and "The Xindi", two episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise written by Rick Berman and Brannon Braga.

Images

Duras, son of Toral	Fer'at	The NX-02 under construction	The Enterprise enters the Delphic Expanse
The Xindi weapon cutting through Cuba

Connections

External links

• The Expanse (novel) article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
• The Expanse article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.