Earth Final Conflict: Legacy

The alien Taelons whom some humans consider Earth's saviors, others its destroyers face their own potential ruin in the form of a mysterious crystal in Glenn R. Sixberry's Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict Legacy, the sixth tie-in to the TV series. When Waneta Long, a Cherokee archeologist, discovers the Uluhsati on a dig, man and alien alike seek it, though whoever bears the crystal turns into the monstrous Uktena; only Waneta may have the power to control the ancient forces in this appealing mix of futuristic SF and ancient legend.