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 Ghost Ship by Diane Carey
In 1995, a Russian aircraft carrier is destroyed by a mysterious creature that just as mysteriously disappears thereafter. Three hundred years later, Counsellor Deanna Troi awakens in her quarters from a nighare in which she senses the voices of the crew of that Russian ship, whose life-essences were somehow absorbed by the creature that destroyed them. And the nighare heralds a danger to the Enterprise itself, for if Picard can’t discover a way to communicate with the creature, it could absorb his crew just as it did the Russians.