Star Trek: Voyager: 17 Death of a Neutron Star
First published on March 1, 1999 and written by and contains
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An alien scientist asks to join Captain Kathryn Janeway and her crew in the investigation of an unprecedented scientific find. Soon U.S.S. Voyager is embroiled in a battle of wills among several alien races — each intent on manipulating the discovery toward its own end and decimating whole worlds in the process.

Janeway must stop a quest for knowledge from turning into a plot for destruction!