The Belly of the Beast
The Belly of the Beast is a Pocket SCE eBook novella – #1 in the series – written by Dean Wesley Smith. Published by Pocket Books, it was first released in . The novella was later collected in the SCE omnibus Have Tech, Will Travel.

Summary 
From the book jacket
The Starfleet Corps of Engineers. Have Tech. Will Travel.

When ancient alien technology is found on a colony world, when robot soldiers from an eons-old interstellar battle restart their war in a highly populated sector, when a global computer system starts to break down or take over, in goes the Starfleet Corps of Engineers. Overseen by Captain Montgomery Scott from his office at Starfleet Headquarters, the S.C.E. can build, rebuild, program, reprogram, assemble, reassemble, or just figure out everything from alien replicators to doomsday machines. Just don't expect them to perform miracles – unless they have to.

Captain Picard and the  have defeated a gigantic marauding starship from parts unknown. Now that the immediate threat has been neutralized, the Starfleet Corps of Engineers has been called in to probe the vanquished hulk in search of both new technology and the secret of its mysterious origin. Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge has temporarily transferred from the Enterprise to assist Captain  and the crew of the S.C.E. ship, the USS da Vinci, on this fascinating mission. La Forge works with Gold, Sonia Gomez, and a top-of-the-line group of technical specialists to unravel the high-tech mysteries of the supposedly dead alien vessel, only to discover that the real danger has just begun!

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