jmtorres | HEEEEEEE

So sometime around watching the Enterprise episode "Acquisition" I decided that not only was Enterprise the trashy holonovel it is depicted as in the finale, it was written by Jake and Nog.

Today

grey_bard pointed me at an Enterprise tie-in novel entitled "The Good that Men Do." It has a fascinating framing device.

"I discovered this when I was researching twenty-second-century warp mechanics," Nog said. "I was digging around in some of the newly declassified files."

Jake raised an eyebrow. "Declassified files? From where? By who? And when?"

Jake peered at the chip, as if trying to divine its secrets just by studying its translucent surface. "The when is part of what makes this complicated. It concerns events we've been told happened in 2161. But the real events actually occurred years earlier, in 2155. And I can't tell whether the where and who are related solely to Section 31, or whether this apparently deliberate cover-up was something sanctioned by those in charge during the earliest days of the Federation."

"All the answers aren't in the declassified information?" Jake was intrigued, especially with the mention of Section 31. It hadn't been so long ago that the secretive organization- a shadowy spy bureau as old as Starfleet- had finally been exposed and, Jake hoped, rooted out once and for all.

"I hope they are," Nog said, interrupting Jake's train of thought. "But as soon as I started to get into it, I thought 'I know one hew-mon who would not only find this fascinating, but also might be able to write a bestselling book about it.' So, here I am."

Jake chuckled. "I see. Well, that certainly sounds intriguing. But do you really think this is important enough that people will care, two hundred years after all the facts and fictions have become part of dusty history?"

Nog looked surprised again, and then his features took on a conspiratorial, almost sinister, cast. "Jake, from what I've seen, this story involves hew-mons, Andorians, Vulcans, Denobulans, and Romulans. It has kidnapping, assassination, slavery, death, resurrection, and cover-ups. And it may just change everything we know- or everything that we've been told- about the founding of the Federation itself."

PLUS, Jake was bragging about how his last book got made into a holonovel. Hee.