Star Trek: New Frontier, book 10 : Excalibur Renaissance
Peter David2000

With the USS Excalibur obliterated and its captain, Mackenzie Calhoun, gone, the surviving crew members are dispersed throughout the galaxy, seeking to forge new lives in the wake of the Excalibur's destruction. For Dr Selar, the ship's former medical officer, this means facing a very personal crisis...
Following the birth of her baby, the Vulcan doctor returns to her homeworld, determined to raise the child exclusively in the way of logic. But the child's father, the Hermat Lieutenant Commander Burgoyne, has hir own views regarding their offspring's future, and s/he intends to fight for hir parental rights, even if it means appealing to the highest authorities of two worlds!
Elsewhere in the Alpha Quadrant, Lieutenant Robin Lefler and her enigmatic mother travel to the pleasure planet of Risa, where they encounter a genuine Starfleet legend...