Captain MacKenzie Calhoun was not always destined for Starfleet. Look back twenty years. A hardened killer, at nineteen years old he is already a leader of men: the maverick teenage figurehead of the revolt that will free his home planet from alien domination. But what will he do when his only goal - his struggle to overthrow the Danteri rule - is achieved? Discovered by Captain Picard of the USS Stargazer, who detects in him the seeds of possible greatness, he is given a choice which will c