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Summary: The middle volume is an overlong trilogy on how Q went bad
Review: "Q-Zone" is the middle volume in Greg Cox's trilogy which has Q telling Picard the immensely long story of how he was led astray as a callow youth. The first book made it clear that Q's story of how he became interested in testing lesser species has something to do with why he is trying to dissuade Picard from allowing Professor Faal of Betazed to pierce the great galactic barrier. It also becomes equally clear that this is not going to happen until the final volume, so "Q-Zone" is pretty much a holding action as the pieces slowly fall into place. The Enterprise is dealing with an attack by aliens who are trying to pay Q back for an earlier affrontery. Just to make things really interesting, Q's wife (Q) and precocious child (Q) are proving to be bigger nuisances that Q himself."The Q Continuum" would work much better as a novel rather than as a mini-series. Furthermore, both of the main ideas of the series have already been done. The idea that there is something not worth tampering with beyond an impenetrable barrier was done in "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier," while incorporating powerful alien characters from previous Trek episodes was already done in Peter David's "Q-Squared." If Cox could have reduced these three volumes into a single one, it would be a much better story. Dragging it out to three books just makes the whole thing drag too much.
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Summary: The middle volume is an overlong trilogy on how Q went bad
Review: "Q-Zone" is the middle volume in Greg Cox's trilogy which has Q telling Picard the immensely long story of how he was led astray as a callow youth. The first book made it clear that Q's story of how he became interested in testing lesser species has something to do with why he is trying to dissuade Picard from allowing Professor Faal of Betazed to pierce the great galactic barrier. It also becomes equally clear that this is not going to happen until the final volume, so "Q-Zone" is pretty much a holding action as the pieces slowly fall into place. The Enterprise is dealing with an attack by aliens who are trying to pay Q back for an earlier affrontery. Just to make things really interesting, Q's wife (Q) and precocious child (Q) are proving to be bigger nuisances that Q himself. "The Q Continuum" would work much better as a novel rather than as a mini-series. Furthermore, both of the main ideas of the series have already been done. The idea that there is something not worth tampering with beyond an impenetrable barrier was done in "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier," while incorporating powerful alien characters from previous Trek episodes was already done in Peter David's "Q-Squared." If Cox could have reduced these three volumes into a single one, it would be a much better story. Dragging it out to three books just makes the whole thing drag too much.
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Summary: Breathing Room
Review: After the frentic pace of the first novel of the series, this one slows down a bit and allows the characters to breath and really explore the situation--not only of the Enterprise being in danger, but also of Q's past. It's an interesting journey and one that I really hope pays off in the final installment of this trilogy. However, the book does lag a bit towards the middle and end with Q's friends actions being described far too long and little or no reaction from Picard. I only hope part three can put all the pieces that are floating around together into a rocking, rollicking conclusion.
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Summary: The ultimate Q story
Review: For absolutely anyone who was intrigued with Q and the Q Continuum when they first appeared in Encounter at Farpoint. Although a bit lacking in developing the secondary plot of the Enterprise's troubles, the novel more than made up for it in its developement of Q. Greg Cox truly brings Q to a new light, and shows us a side of the super-being we have never seen. Watching Q struggle through witnessing his own past is an emotional experience at the least. A great read. The only problem is, can the final installment live up to the expectations formed by reading the first two?
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Summary: A great contiuation of the first book
Review: For those of you who like Q, space battles, and mystery, you'll like this book. Read the first one too!
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Summary: A refreshingly original Star Trek read.
Review: Greg Cox again proves his skills at writing an original story that avoids the stale plots and repetitiveness of most recent Star Trek books. Cox manages to weave in details of Q's life that seem plausable given Q's history. The characters are solid and the action is gripping--especially the scenes revolving around the Tkon empire.
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Summary: agony from start to finish
Review: I was expecting a lot from this trilogy, but I found the story stretched beyond measure to fill up 3 books, the characterization very flawed (how could Mrs Q not realize that her son was in danger until the last minute??, that's just an example), and the interaction between characters very poor. The Enterprise crew was just there to play host but to what? The Q family was more like a weird offshot of the Addams family than a group of omnipotent beings. It was all played for laughs and the ending was more of a relief than a letdown simply because by that time I had grown tired of the whole thing and glad that it was finally over. What a charade! Thumbs definitely down.
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Summary: The fall of the Tkon Empire....
Review: In "The Last Outpost," Picard discovered the ruins of an interplanetary empire that was destroyed 600,000 years ago by a supernova. But what were the Tkon like in their heyday? In this book, Picard finds out.
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Summary: Good continuation, but drags on the Tkon history
Review: In this second book of this trilogy, we see a great deal of the Tkon Empire history, which ruins were found by the Enterprise in the first season episode, "The Last Outpost." In my opinion it drags on way too long and could have been shorten combined in parts with the other two books of this trilogy. We see what caused the fall from power of this great empire.
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Summary: Good continuation, but drags on the Tkon history
Review: In this second book of this trilogy, we see a great deal of the Tkon Empire history, which ruins were found by the Enterprise in the first season episode, "The Last Outpost." In my opinion it drags on way too long and could have been shorten combined in parts with the other two books of this trilogy. We see what caused the fall from power of this great empire.
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