Title: Star Trek The Next Generation - Balance of Power
First published: 1995
Description: 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!
Subjects: American Science fiction, Science fiction, Jean Luc Picard (Fictitious character), Time travel, Interplanetary voyages, Fiction, American Science Fiction And Fantasy, Fiction - Science Fiction, Science Fiction - Star Trek, Fiction / Science Fiction / General, collectionID:TNG#, Fiction, science fiction, general, Picard, jean-luc (fictitious character), fiction, Crusher, wesley (fictitious character), fiction, La forge, geordi (fictitious character), fiction