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While on a mission to the Planet Terminus, three parallel ''Enterprise''s find themselves in great danger when the entity known as [[Trelane]] discovers a power unlike any other. Soon, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and his crew are caught up in a battle not only for their lives, but for the very fabric of existence itself. |
While on a mission to the Planet Terminus, three parallel ''Enterprise''s find themselves in great danger when the entity known as [[Trelane]] discovers a power unlike any other. Soon, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and his crew are caught up in a battle not only for their lives, but for the very fabric of existence itself. |
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** Track A: A variant of the normal ''Trek'' universe. |
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| Author: | Peter David |
| Illustrator: | Keith Birdsong |
| Publisher: | Pocket Books |
| Series: | Pocket TNG |
| Published: | 15 July 1994 |
| Pages: | 434 |
| Year: | 2370 |
| Stardates: | Unknown |
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ISBN 0671891529 (hardcover) |
A struggle between Trelane and Q endangers multiple realities of the Enterprise-D
Summary
- From the book jacket
- In all of his travels Captain Jean-Luc Picard has never faced an opponent more powerful than Q, a being from another continuum that Picard encountered on his very first mission as Captain of the Starship Enterprise. In the years since, Q has returned again and again to harass Picard and his crew. Sometimes dangerous, sometimes merely obnoxious, Q has always been mysterious and seemingly all-powerful.
- But this time, when Q appears, he comes to Picard for help. Apparently another member of the Q continuum has tapped into an awesome power source that makes this being more powerful than the combined might of the entire Q continuum. This renegade Q is named Trelane - also known as the Squire of Gothos, who Captain Kirk and his crew first encountered over one hundred years ago. Q explains that, armed with this incredible power, Trelane has become unspeakably dangerous.
- Now Picard must get involved in an awesome struggle between super beings. And this time the stakes are not just Picard's ship, or the galaxy, or even the universe - this time the stakes are all of creation...
- Excerpts of copyrighted sources are included for review purposes only, without any intention of infringement.
While on a mission to the Planet Terminus, three parallel Enterprises find themselves in great danger when the entity known as Trelane discovers a power unlike any other. Soon, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and his crew are caught up in a battle not only for their lives, but for the very fabric of existence itself.
Memorable Quotes
- To be added...
Background Information
- The plot of this novel repeatedly shifts among three different parallel universes or "Tracks". The various Tracks as presented in the novel are and why they are:
- Track A: A variant of the normal Trek universe.
- Jack Crusher is captain of the Enterprise-D.
- Jean-Luc Picard - broken in rank after the Stargazer court martial - is the ship's first officer.
- Jack and Beverly are divorced, and Wesley died at the age of four after he fell out of a tree trying to see Jack. Picard and Beverly are engaged in a romantic relationship unbeknownst to Jack.
- Geordi La Forge is one of Beverly's nurses in sickbay because of all the medical devices he used when he was young.
- Tasha Yar and Data (this Data being a "human-oid" - a positronic brain in a flesh and blood body) have an ongoing relationship.
- Will Riker and Kira Nerys are prisoners of the Romulans.
- Will and Deanna Troi are married, and have a son.
- Worf dwells in the Klingon Empire; is high-ranking and has aspirations for a seat on the High Council. His parents died on Narendra III instead of Khitomer.
- The bartender in Ten Forward is named Caryn Johnson. (This is also the real name of Whoopi Goldberg, who plays Guinan.)
- James Kirk's middle initial is R.
- Track B: The normal Trek universe as we usually see it.
- Track C: A version of the "Klingon war" storyline as seen in TNG: "Yesterday's Enterprise", but one where the Enterprise-C failed in its mission and the war with the Klingons continues.
- Track A: A variant of the normal Trek universe.
- This novel offers an explanation as to why Captain Kirk's middle initial in TOS: "Where No Man Has Gone Before" is seen to be R.: the events of that episode are said to take place in the Track A universe.
Characters
Track A
- Jack Crusher
- Captain of the USS Enterprise (alternate timeline).
- Caryn Johnson
- Yeoman who runs Ten Forward in this alternate timeline.
- Also the real name of actress Whoopi Goldberg, whose character of Guinan fulfills the same function in Track B.
Track B
- Claire
- Mrs. Claire was a teacher in one timeline.
Track C
- Jean-Luc Picard
- Geordi La Forge
- Beverly Crusher
- William Riker
- Trelane
- Q
- Tasha Yar
- Data
- Deanna Troi
- Worf
- Hikaru Sulu
- Sela
- Ensign Chafin
- Barclay
- Guinan
- runs Ten Forward in the alternate timeline B&C
- Alexander Rozhenko
- Argyle female alternate timeline A
- Ensign Joseph
- Cavalieri
- Mot
- Amanda Rogers
- Wesley Crusher
- Sonya Gomez
- Distefano
- Ensign Sanders
- Lucy
- Natalie
- Selan
- Turo
- Chafin
- Commodore Hikaru Sulu Hologram
- Paul Manheim
References
"Cause and Effect"; "Parallels"; "The Squire of Gothos"; Starfleet; "Where No Man Has Gone Before"; "Yesterday's Enterprise"
- Narendra III
- Neutral Zone
- Farpoint Station
- USS Hood
- Starfleet Excelsior class ship.
- USS Stargazer
- Starfleet Constellation class ship.
- Sarona VIII
- Planet.
- however in this book it was called Sarona 7
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