Power Hungry by Howard Weinstein
Sent to deliver emergency famine relief to the planet Thiopa — the Federation’s only allies in a critically important sector of space — the Enterprise crew finds a brutal dictatorship more interested in preserving its own power than in protecting its citizens or the world they share. Captain Picard is hesitant about turning over the supplies to this government, fearing they might never reach their intended destination, but he must bring the ruling Thiopans around to his way of seeing things, before the famine becomes a more permanent state of environmental degradation?
Sent to deliver emergency famine relief to the planet Thiopa — the Federation’s only allies in a critically important sector of space — the Enterprise crew finds a brutal dictatorship more interested in preserving its own power than in protecting its citizens or the world they share. Captain Picard is hesitant about turning over the supplies to this government, fearing they might never reach their intended destination, but he must bring the ruling Thiopans around to his way of seeing things, before the famine becomes a more permanent state of environmental degradation?