Foundations, Book Three
Foundations, Book Three is a Pocket SCE eBook novella – #19 in the series, and the third part of a three-part story – written by Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore. Published by Pocket Books, it was first released in . The novella was later collected in the SCE omnibus Foundations.

Summary 
From the book jacket
Concluding the all-new trilogy that tells the origin of the Starfleet Corps of Engineers!

The USS da Vincis cultural specialist, Carol Abramowitz, has always had trouble with first-contact missions, so when she expresses her concerns about dealing with the alien race the da Vinci has rescued, Captain Montgomery Scott tells her a story from the S.C.E.'s past...

A century before the heyday of the da Vinci, an engineering accident on an experimental Kelvan ship sent Scotty and an S.C.E. team led by his old friend Commander Mahmud al-Khaled into uncharted space. When a group of hostile aliens demands that they leave or face the consequences, the S.C.E. must work against the clock to repair the ship or face destruction!

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Foundations, Book 3