Parallels (novel)

You may also be looking for the audio drama adaptation of this story.

Parallels was a 2006 novel, part of the Continuing Saga series of books that told the ongoing story of Station Zero and those who served aboard.

Publisher's Summary
The Gnostic Dawn, a newly-commissioned carrier ship, is docked at Station Zero, ready to make its first jump to the farthest reaches of the Imperium.

While Commander Rebecca Tate and some of the station crew are aboard the ship for a final test flight, an accident in the drive systems flings the ship into a spatio-temporal breach.

Commander Tate and the surviving crew are trapped in a battle for survival as they find themselves being pulled through a series of divergent realities. In the process, they learn the answers to old mysteries, fight terrifying future possibilities, and learn the hardest truth of all...

Sometimes, you have to go home again.

Plot
To be added.

Characters

 * Certain lines in this novel implied that David Hamilton, a former Station Zero commander and Rebecca Tate's adoptive father, was still alive, though in poor health, at the time the story takes place.
 * This was the first novel in the range, in fact the first official Station Zero media of any kind, to use the word "married" to describe the relationship between Rebecca Tate and Kyoko Nakamura.
 * The novel also included the first outright attempt to canonically state that Vanessa Sharpe and the others suffering from Valdone had not gone to their death aboard the plagueship Valorous. (TV: Outbreak/TV: Indecision/PROSE: Indecision)
 * The fact that Vanessa Sharpe's child is here called Olivia rather than Katrina may indicate that this version takes place in yet another parallel universe similar but unrelated to the one eventually revealed in the audio drama adaptation and the Zeropoint episode Strange Matters.
 * In at least one universe, a version of Jatheel/Human hybrid Targa Nonka led an army of outcasts and rebels to destroy both the Earth Imperium and the Jatheel Colony Worlds.

Ships

 * Lieutenant Trace Borden mentions having served aboard the recently de-commissioned ship Matrushka on it's final voyage.  The Matrushka was the ship on which the briefly disgraced Commander Addison Sharpe would have been taken to his execution if convicted of treason. (TV: Thought Crimes)  The same ship later carried the badly wounded Commander David Hamilton back to Earth for treatment. (TV: Friction Break)