It's a decent enough set up for the Romulan War mentioned on the original series and the next generation using the command test the Kobayashi Maru from the wrath of khan. This book covers it's origins. The author takes a lot of time name and place dropping from trek canon which slows up the story. Once the story gets going things take an interesting twist. It was a long but enjoyable enough read. Now onto the 1st book of the Romulan war

Overall this is a great book story- I do not, however, enjoy the dirtying of some characters - it kind of ruins things for me- doesn't seem very Klingon for Krell to be gay, for archer and trip to use foul language, etc. star trek is supposed to be wholesome.

The second book of a new Star Trek series set during the time period of Jonathan Archer and the NX-01 Enterprise, it features a fan favorite who disguised as a Romulan infiltrates the Empire on a top secret mission. This book covers an important period of time for Star Trek and the developing Coalition of Planets as well as leads into the Earth/Romulan war that was never reached in the TV show due to it's cancelation after season 4.