The Brave and the Bold, Book One
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The Brave and the Bold, Book One is a   – the first in The Brave and the Bold duology – written by Keith R.A. DeCandido. Published by Pocket Books, it was first released in .

Summary 
From the book jacket
The Malkus Artifacts: four deadly machines, wielded as weapons of absolute power by an interstellar tyrant thousands of years ago and scattered across the Alpha Quadrant when he was overthrown. After their existence was discovered in 2151 by Captain Jonathan Archer of the Starship , all Starfleet vessels were warned to keep an eye out for these most dangerous devices...

One hundred years later, Captain James T. Kirk of the  and Commodore Matt Decker of the  come across the first artifact on the colony world of Alpha Proxima II – a world ravaged by a mysterious plague. As the crews of the two mighty vessels work to find a cure and locate the artifact, two brave captains must bring order to Proxima before it's too late!

One hundred years after that, Commander Benjamin Sisko of Space station Deep Space 9 enlists the aid of Captain Declan Keogh of the  to help construct a farming colony on Bajor's second moon – but the colony is placed in jeopardy when the Bajoran terrorist Orta discovers the second artifact and threatens destruction on a massive scale!

Background information 
 The prologue is set just before .
 One of author DeCandido's goals in the second part of this novel was to explore the apparent antagonism between Keogh and Dax as seen in . (Book Two, Afterword)

Characters 
Jonathan Archer
T'Pol
Phlox
Malcolm Reed
Travis Mayweather
Hoshi Sato
Charles "Trip" Tucker III
Matt Decker
James Kirk
Spock
Leonard McCoy
Montgomery Scott
Uhura
Hikaru Sulu
Pavel Chekov
Benjamin Sisko
Odo
Jadzia Dax
Jake Sisko
Miles O'Brien
Quark
Julian Bashir
Kira Nerys
Orta
Keogh

External link 
 

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