These are the voyages from the starship A.S.F. Willful Child. Its ongoing mission: to search out unusual new worlds on which to seed the Terran flag, to subjugate and if necessary obliterate new life-forms, to boldly blow the.…And so we join the not-terribly-bright but exceedingly cock-sure Captain Hadrian Sawback and his motley crew up to speed the Starship Willful Child for some devil-may-care, near-calamitous and downright chaotic adventures through ‘the infinite vastness of interstellar space.’The NY Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Malazan Reserve of the Fallen series offers taken his lifelong passion for Superstar Trek and transformed it right into a smart, inventive, and greatly entertaining spoof overall mankind-exploring-space-for-the-good-of-all-species-but-trashing-stuff-with-a-lot-of-high-tech-gadgets-along-the-way, overblown adventure. The result is an SF novel that deftly parodies the genre while also paying fond homage to it.