The Captains' Honor
Captain Picard engages in a deadly contest of wills with an ambitious Starfleet captain!

The Captains' Honor is a Pocket TNG novel – #8 in the numbered series – written by David and Daniel Dvorkin. Published by Pocket Books, it was first released in .

Summary 
From the book jacket
A series of vicious attacks by the M'Dok Empire has devastated the planet Tenara – bringing the  and another starship, the Centurion, to the planet's aid. The Centurion captain is Lucius Sejanus – a powerful, magnetic man who favors taking a far stronger stance against the M'Dok than Captain Picard. And as the conflict escalates, Sejanus's instincts seem to be correct… for it appears only extreme measures can stop the murderous raids on Tenara.

Now the people of Tenara must decide which path they will follow – the way of peace, or the road to war. But unknown to any, one of the Centurion officers has made that decision for them – and plans to provoke a full-scale war between the Federation and the M'Dok Empire!

Background information 
 The novel is set shortly after the  episode . Given that Captain Lucius Aelius Sejanus had previously encountered Romulans, it is also probable this story takes place after , and is therefore in calendar year 2365.
 The vessel Centurion depicted in the novel is crewed by Romans from the same planet seen in  – named here as Magna Roma. Set a hundred years later, the Romans have now achieved Federation membership, and are entrusted with a Federation vessel with warp drive.
 The M'Dok are carnivorous felinoids, defeated and demilitarized by the Federation in war two hundred years earlier – identical to how the Kzinti were introduced.
 The historical Sejanus, after whom the USS Centurions captain in this novel is named, was played by Patrick Stewart in the 1976 BBC series . Stewart's performance inspired author David Dvorkin, who deliberately modeled Captain Sejanus after it (the text noting the similarity between Picard and Sejanus). ()
 David Dvorkin noted that the novel's editor rewrote significant portions of the book, which he and his son (and co-author) Daniel only discovered after publication. ()
 The Titan Books UK reprint of this novel carried the title The Captains' Honour, using the British English spelling.

Characters

Regular and recurring 
 Picard, Jean-Luc  Captain.
 Natasha Yar

Others 
Sejanus, Lucius Aelius  Captain, USS Centurion.
Gaius Aldus  Centurion first officer.
Appius Cornelius  Centurion security chief, confronted by Lt. Worf in the storyline.
Jenny De Luz Ensign, Enterprise security officer, from the Federation colony of Meramar
Hjalmar Foch

References 
 USS Centurion  Federation starship.
 
 M'Dok
 M'Dok Empire
 Magna Roma 892-IV.
 Meramar  Federation colony with similar martial values to Magna Roma
 Tenara

Timeline 
 2364
 2365

External links 
 
 

Captain's Honor, The

cs:The Captains' Honor
de:Die Ehre des Captain