Star Trek The Next Generation - Balance of Power
When a famous Federation scientist dies, his son puts his inventions up for sale to the highest bidder -- whether Federation, Klingon, Romulan or Cardassian. Among the items at auction are medical devices, engineering advances -- and a photon pulse cannon capable of punching through a starship's shields with a single shot.

Meanwhile, at the Academy, Wesley Crusher comes to the aid of his best friend -- and finds himself kidnapped by renegade Ferengi bent on controlling the universe through commerce. When they also set their sights on the photon cannon, Captain Picard must find a way to save the Starship Enterprise and the Federation from the deadliest weapon ever known - with every race in the galaxy aligned against him!
American Science fiction, Science fiction, Jean Luc Picard (Fictitious character), Time travel, Interplanetary voyages
Dafydd Ab Hugh
Dafydd ab Hugh is an author whose novelette, "The Coon Rolled Down and Ruptured His Larinks, A Squeezed Novel by Mr. Skunk" in Asimov's Science Fiction, was nominated for a Nebula Award in 1990. Simon & Schuster has published eleven ab Hugh novels in the Doom and Star Trek franchises.