&#8220;YOU WERE TOLD NOT TO RETURN TO OUR SPACE.&#8221; <P>Little is known about the Children of the Storm&#8212;one of the most unique and potentially dangerous species the Federation has ever encountered. Non-corporeal and traveling through space in vessels apparently propelled by thought alone, the Children of the Storm at one time managed to destroy thousands of Borg ships without firing a single conventional weapon. <P>Now in its current mission to the Delta Quadrant, Captain Chakotay and Fleet Commander Afsarah Eden must unravel whythree Federation starships&#8212;the <I>U.S.S. Quirinal</I>, <I>Planck</I>, and <I>Demeter</I>&#8212;have suddenly been targeted without provocation and with extreme prejudice by the powerful Children of the Storm . . . with thousands of Starfleet lives at stake from an enemy that the Federation can only begin to comprehend. . . .