Author(s):	John Gregory Betancourt
Publisher:	Pocket Books
Series:	Pocket TNG #51 Double Helix #1
Published:	June 1999
Pages:	226
Stardate:	41211.0 (2364)
Reference(s):	ISBN 0671032550 (paperback) ISBN 0743421310 (eBook) ASIN B000FC0Q7K (Kindle)

Deanna's life is threatened by a mysterious plague!

Plot Summary Edit

From the Book Jacket

Like the twisted strands of mutant chromosomes, an insidious alien conspiracy winds its way through the entire Alpha Quadrant, just as it stretches across several years of Starfleet history - beginning near the very start of Captain Picard's command of the Starship Enterprise!

It is only the first year of the U.S.S. Enterprise-D's ongoing mission when a virulent epidemic strikes the populace of Archaria III, endangering the lives of thousands and provoking acts of mob violence against those believed responsible for the spread of the disease. While Data and Natasha Yar team up to uncover the true origins of the virus, Dr. Crusher finds the implacable sickness resists all her efforts to find a cure. The desperate quest for a cure becomes even more urgent when Deanna Troi succumbs to the dreaded plague...again and again.

Background Information Edit

• This is book 1 of the Star Trek: The Next Generation - Double Helix six-book series.
• An extract from this novel appeared in Star Trek Monthly issue 56.

Characters Edit

Jean-Luc Picard

William T. Riker

Data

Worf

Natasha Yar

Geordi La Forge

Deanna Troi

Beverly Crusher

Miles O'Brien

Cherbach 

Ensign.

Barrans 

Ensign.

Anders

Smith 

Ensign.

Ian McCloud

Icolah

Schultz

Wrenn

Detek

Clarke 

Ensign.

T'pona 

 : Ensign.

Tr'grxl-gn'ta

Crane 

Ensign.

Habbib 

Ensign.

Charles Ehrhart 

Ensign.

References Edit

External link Edit

• Infection at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works