The Covenant of the Crown Author:Howard Weinstein, bernard malamud, bernard malamud A Star Trek Novel - "Her native land of Shad had been torn by a Klingon-inspired civil war. Despite the aid of the USS Enterprise, her dying father...us too weak to return home and rally the resurgent Loyalist forces. The sceptre of power must, therefore, pass to his young daughter Kailyn if the war is to end..."