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Summary: ST-TNG: Q-Squared
Review: Star Trek-The Next Generation written by Peter David is a book that stars the number-one villian of the next generation..."Q."It always seems that "Q" shows up on Captain Jean-luc Picard's doorstep every time sometime goes amiss with "Q." Well, this is no exception as "Q" is baby sitting, right, but thaat's the premiss. And who should it be the "lucky" child "Q" is baby sitting... none other than Trelane. If you don't know who Trelane is he was introducted in TOS in the episode called "The Squire of Gothos" as the reckless child "Q" that want to use Kirk and crew as play things. There is a hint of "Yesterday's Enterprise" in the novel. Well, what happens is the Trelane has found a way to tap into the continuium and has greater powers than "Q" himself and is causing the parallel universes to converge and intersect, three to be exact. So, you actually have three universes to keep tract of while reading this book and you really have to pay attention to the chapter titles. But, now we get to meet Jack Crusher who is the Captain of the Enterprise and Picard is Number One, Beverly and Wesley are dead. Picard is having an affair with Beverly in another and of course the true timeline for this universe. All making an interesting read. Peter David really gets into the "Q" character and makes him jump with energy throughout the book as with Trelane as Picard has a sword fight with Trelane and you can visualize the dark clouds and the thunder and lightening claps in the background. So, the fate of all creation is at stake as this awesome struggle between two super beings is about to unfold. A book that will not leave you disappointed as you will NOT want to put it down until the ending.
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Summary: Some fun stuff here, but ultimately fails
Review: Trelane (of the TOS episode "Squire of Gothos"), who turns out to be a young member of the Q-Continuum, taps into the ultimate energy source and uses it-or is used by it-to tamper with the nature of reality and the flow of time. Q and the crews of the starship Enterprise from three parallel universes find themselves right in the thick of the action.
Three things seem apparent about this novel. First, author Peter David had fun writing it. It's clever, if a bit too convoluted at times, and has fun making unexpected connections and arcane references to Trek history. He has a firm grip of the characters and writes their dialogue and interactions well. Second, he wrote it fast, much too fast. The prose is very sloppy, becoming at times unreadable. Third, this book is much too long. Most, if not all, of the sequences written from the perspectives of Q and Trelane should have been cut out. That would have improved the novel a great deal, because those scenes are truly awful.
Here's the problem: how can anyone, much less a guy dashing off a Star Trek novel, convincingly inhabit the perspective of an omnipotent, omniscient being? A masterful novelist might pull it off with great thought and effort, but Peter David isn't up to the task. That's not a knock against him, since almost nobody is up to that task, but he should have realized his limitations. He gives us beings who, rather than existing on a plane beyond our understanding, have mothers and fathers just like we do, act from very human motivations, and even derive their names from Latin root words! The TV series managed (just barely at times) to present the character successfully because it was always made clear that the version of Q and his universe that we saw was dumbed down to make human comprehension possible. David mistakes the dumbed down version for the real, unvarnished thing.
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Summary: David's best Trek novel...
Review: ...at least his best that I've read thus far. This book is not for the person who likes a nice, evenly paced Trek story. This book is running at top speed right out of the gate! As long as you can keep up, you'll love it.
This book might be of particular interest to those Trekkies that are also fans of TOS (The Original Series), as a fan-favorite villain - Trelane - is really the primary nemesis. David does a fantastic job of intertwining the back-stories of both Trelane and Q to come up with a very feasible and fun tale of "things that might have been..."
Realities merge, dead characters walk the halls of the Enterprise, unborn children save their parents' lives, cats and dogs sleeping together...it's everything that you would expect, or wouldn't expect, when Q is involved. So hold onto your seat when you start into this book, because it doesn't let up at all!
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Summary: A battle for power, powerfully written
Review: I couldn't put this book down, I just had to keep reading it to find out where it went next. This tells a story of a great battle of good and evil held within the charachters. A must for anyone wanting to know Q better. Q is the archtype of the trixter who may play anoying pranks, even to the point of being dangerous, but when it comes down to the line, he's on the right side. As with any story involving time, the temporal anomolies become quite interresting, but this book handles it all without becoming bogged down in techno-babble or losing the story in the midst of the confusion. Peter David is truly a master of weaving the world of Star Trek.
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Summary: Talk about planning! Peter David does it again!
Review: Man, I can only imagine the plot blue prints Peter David had to create to make this book. It was so compelling. I loved the way he made all these alternate universes and how he developed them and then he mixed them all together into one reality. Talk about WOW! This has got to be my all-time favorite book. I loved the way he brought back Jack Crusher into the Star Trek world. David did an excellent job of predicting what the universe would have been like if this or that would've happened. It was great near the end when all who knows how many realities converged onto on Enterprise. All heck breaks loose. You will be drawn in and won't be able to put this book down and after you read it once, you will read it again. Excellent abridgement of the original book. They took out the unneccesary parts and I loved the music and sound effects. All in all a great set to buy and what a nice price amazon has set before you. Don't wait, buy today!
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Summary: Love the alternte realities!
Review: I really enjoied reading this book, it was so much fun! I loved the way that first it jumped from reality to reality, then combind the realities together. It makes you wonder "what if", something all good books should do.
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