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Star Trek: Starfleet Corps Of Engineers Books in Order

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Explore the Star Trek: Starfleet Corps Of Engineers books featuring David Mack in order, with summaries, background, and where to start.

Last updated: July 1, 2026

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Star Trek: Starfleet Corps Of Engineers books in publication order

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7 books

1

Invincible, Part 1

by David Mack

2001

The *da Vinci* faces a seemingly unstoppable threat that cannot be solved by brute force alone. What begins as a technical puzzle quickly turns into a fight for survival.

2

Invincible, Part 2

by David Mack

2001

With the crisis escalating, the engineers have to turn theory into a last-ditch plan. The second half pays off the mystery with higher stakes and very little margin for error.

3

Wildfire

by David Mack

2002

A Starfleet engineering mission turns into a claustrophobic disaster when the *da Vinci* crew is trapped in a failing environment. Every fix creates a new risk, and time is not on their side.

4

Buying Time

by David Mack

2003

Another Corps of Engineers emergency becomes a race against collapse, where each repair only delays the next failure. It is a fast technical crisis built around problem-solving under pressure.

5

Wildfire Book 2

by David Mack

2003

The disaster deepens, escape routes narrow, and the *da Vinci* crew has to keep thinking while the environment turns deadly. This second part finishes one of Mack's most intense engineering stories.

6

Failsafe

by David Mack

2004

When an observation probe crashes on a pre-warp world, the Corps of Engineers must destroy it before local terrorists turn stolen technology into a weapon. A clean repair job becomes a cultural crisis.

7

Small World

by David Mack

2005

The *da Vinci* crew encounters a civilization that has literally miniaturized its own world to survive. Helping them means solving one of the strangest engineering problems in the series.

Star Trek: Starfleet Corps Of Engineers books in chronological order

  1. Book cover for "Invincible, Part 1"

    Invincible, Part 1

    by David Mack

    2001Star Trek: Starfleet Corps Of Engineers, Book 1
  2. Book cover for "Invincible, Part 2"

    Invincible, Part 2

    by David Mack

    2001Star Trek: Starfleet Corps Of Engineers, Book 2
  3. Book cover for "Wildfire"

    Wildfire

    by David Mack

    2002Star Trek: Starfleet Corps Of Engineers, Book 3
  4. Book cover for "Wildfire Book 2"

    Wildfire Book 2

    by David Mack

    2003Star Trek: Starfleet Corps Of Engineers, Book 4
  5. Book cover for "Buying Time"

    Buying Time

    by David Mack

    2003Star Trek: Starfleet Corps Of Engineers, Book 5
  6. Book cover for "Failsafe"

    Failsafe

    by David Mack

    2004Star Trek: Starfleet Corps Of Engineers, Book 6
  7. Book cover for "Small World"

    Small World

    by David Mack

    2005Star Trek: Starfleet Corps Of Engineers, Book 7

Series background & context

Starfleet Corps of Engineers is one of the more fun ideas in Star Trek books because it makes the support crew the stars. Instead of captains chasing diplomatic crises, these stories follow the specialists on the USS da Vinci as they solve technical disasters nobody else can fix.

That sounds small. It usually is not.

Collapsed stations, malfunctioning tech, strange alien environments, bad first contact through broken machinery, the series turns engineering into adventure. Commander Sonya Gomez and her team approach crises like a mix of troubleshooters, rescuers, and field scientists, which gives the books a different flavor from the main ship lines.

David Mack's entries tend to push that format into high pressure. Stories like Wildfire, Failsafe, Small World, and Invincible are good examples of how an engineering problem can become a moral problem once lives, cultures, or whole worlds get wrapped up in the fix. If you enjoy the part of Star Trek where somebody says the ship has twelve minutes before catastrophic failure and then the really smart people get to work, this series is catnip.

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