Violations (novel)

When their main computer is hijacked, the USS Voyager crew are drawn into a dangerous political struggle!

Violations is a Pocket VOY novel – #4 in the numbered series – written by Susan Wright. Published by Pocket Books, it was first released in September 1995.

Summary Edit

From the book jacket

Under the guise of helping the crew find a way home, a group of aliens board the USS Voyager, and then steal the main computer. To get it back, Captain Janeway is forced to negotiate with the thieves--who are from a consortium of planets where thievery is a way of life. But as Janeway and her crew fight to retrieve the computer in time to save the barely functioning ship, they become embroiled in a political battle the could not only destroy the USS Voyager, but the crew as well!

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Background information Edit

• As the novel was based only on the series bible and early episode scripts, The Doctor is referred to throughout as "Doctor Zimmerman". Author Susan Wright notes that she was instructed by Paramount to do so. (Voyages of Imagination, p. 381)
• During the Season 4 episode "Concerning Flight", Voyager had its main computer core stolen again.

Characters Edit

Kathryn Janeway

Chakotay

Tuvok

Tom Paris

B'Elanna Torres

Harry Kim

Neelix

The Doctor

Kes

External link Edit

• Violations at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works