Strike Zone
A hidden cache of superweapons – a deadly race to prevent galactic war!

Strike Zone is a Pocket TNG novel – #5 in the numbered series – written by Peter David. Published by Pocket Books, it was first released in .

Summary 
From the book jacket
Deep in the uncharted regions of the our galaxy, the Kreel, a primitive, warlike race have stumbled upon weapons powerful beyond their wildest imagination. The Kreel have used those weapons to attack their most bitter enemies, the Klingons.

Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the  are called in to mediate the dispute by ferrying diplomatic teams from the two warring races to the source of their conflict, the mysterious planet where the weapons were discovered, in an attempt to find a peaceful solution to the conflict, and discover the origins of the super-powerful weapons.

Before the galaxy erupts into full-scale war…

Background information 
 This is author Peter David's first of many Star Trek novels. His best-known work is arguably the New Frontier series.
 This novel picks up an abandoned comics story arc from David's run on the first DC series.
 Data is erroneously portrayed as being able to use contractions on four pages. David corrected this mistake in later novels, and even used it as a plot device in his novel .
The novel was written and published during the second season of Star Trek: The Next Generation which was notable for having no "Klingon" episodes, except for holographic Klingons seen in the episode "The Icarus Factor".  The only canon source material available was therefore the information seen in the first season episode "Heart of Glory" and it is upon this which Peter David bases most of the Klingon mannerisms and dialogue in the novel.
A passing mention is made in the novel of the Black Fleet, the precursor Klingon afterlife concept to Sto-vo-kor.

Characters 

Jean-Luc Picard  Enterprise-D captain.
William T. Riker  Enterprise-D first officer.
Data  Android Enterprise-D operations officer.
Geordi La Forge  VISOR-sighted Enterprise-D chief engineer.
Katherine Pulaski  Enterprise-D chief medical officer.
Deanna Troi  Enterprise-D counselor.
Wesley Crusher  Acting ensign, Enterprise-D flight control officer.
Worf  Enterprise-D security chief.
Guinan  Enterprise-D bartender.
Budian  Kreel.
Aneel  Kreel.
Tron  Klingon.
Spyre  Klingon.
Deni
Klingon commander  Commander in charge of the Kothulu.
Bobbi Chase 
Named for Marvel Comics editor Bobbie Chase.
Marks  Lieutenant.
Taka Nagai  Ambassador
Kobry  Klingon ambassador. 
Kobry's backstory indicates he may be the albino Klingon named Moron (later "Bernie"), seen in Star Trek (DC volume 1)  stories penned by Peter David. (KOBRY = KOnom and Nancy BRYce, his Starfleet guardians.)
Westerby  Admiral
Jaan Baat-Utuul-Bayn-Devin  A Selelvian "elf".
Gava
Bors
Tom Chafin  Starfleet ensign who served a relief flight control officer on the Enterprise-D. Chafin vocalized a disrespectful comment about Wesley Crusher during a conference on the bridge. Picard took the out-of-turn remark as a sign the ensign needed a change of scenery, and reassigned Chafin to security. Chafin was later tricked by Jaan into abandoning his guard post. 
Chafin appeared again as a lieutenant in Vendetta and is named after the author's friend, T.A. Chafin.
Sklar
Derl
Tuttle
LaVelle
Palmeiro
Dykstra
Meyer  Enterprise-D security.
Boyajian  Enterprise-D security.
Amy

References 
Cantos V
Cognoscente
Daedalus IV
DQN1196 ("Hellhole")
flarg  Expletive used by the Kreel, as in "How the flarg do we get though there?".
Gamma Origi III
Klingons
IKS Kothulu  Klingon battle cruiser. 
Possibly named for the  stories created by horror master .
Kreel 
The Kreel were a race of humanoids that live in the Alpha Quadrant. They had three fingers, no neck, and a triangular torso. Their mortal enemy was the Klingons. They prided themselves on their bodies and were considered parasites or scavengers.
The Kreel appear again in later novels by David, and are even used by other authors.
Selelvians  
Selelvians appear again in the Star Trek: New Frontier series (see: Star Trek: New Frontier characters).

Timeline 
2290s
2365

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