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Summary: A good supplement to the TV episode
Review: A good book, which copies the TV episode closely, with a few additional scenes. A good book to start with for all TNG newbies, if there is such a thing.
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Summary: The Beginning
Review: After many years of reading of the novels, this is the beginning of the Star Trek on TV once again. This time under the command of Captian Picard. A man that has alot of experance, and some troubles of his own. In this book we meet the renound Q. All knowing, all seeing, pain that would come back from time to time to help, hinder, show the ways of the cosmos. Q, wants humanity on trial. This Picard will not allow, but Q does have to power to destroy all of humanity with just a thought. Would the rest of the universe care, would the Klingons, or the Romulans. They would love if Q would do this. Read on to find out.
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Summary: The Beginning
Review: After many years of reading of the novels, this is the beginning of the Star Trek on TV once again. This time under the command of Captian Picard. A man that has alot of experance, and some troubles of his own. In this book we meet the renound Q. All knowing, all seeing, pain that would come back from time to time to help, hinder, show the ways of the cosmos. Q, wants humanity on trial. This Picard will not allow, but Q does have to power to destroy all of humanity with just a thought. Would the rest of the universe care, would the Klingons, or the Romulans. They would love if Q would do this. Read on to find out.
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Summary: EXCELLENT
Review: After watching the series on TV including Encounter at Farpoint, I found that the book concentrated much more on the character development and maybe a bit less on technical details in some parts but ALOT more in other areas. The only major difference I saw in the book is that they didn't really give details on how most of the crew and famalies we're sent to the sauser section during seperation as in the TV show. Other than that it was an EXCELLENT read.
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Summary: Excellent introduction to the Next Generation characters.
Review: Although this story seemed, to the best of my memory, to conform very faithfully to the television episode that it was based on, still it seemed to do a better job of establishing characters than that episode did. Perhaps this is simply a function of the fact that I already know the characters now, as I read the book, whereas I didn't yet know them when I first saw the episode on television. But I don't think so; I believe that once again, this book demonstrates that a book can do a better job of character development than the screen can; the screen can give us visual impact that even the best written description can't, but a book will win when it comes to character development every time. Although I WILL admit that, had I not seen John Delancy's portrayal of Q, I might not have truly appreciated just how obnoxious he was merely from the book; his superciliousness seemed a bit understated.
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Summary: Great novelization!
Review: David Gerrold did a wonderful job with the novelization of the episode that started The Next Generation! After purchasing the first season of TNG on DVD and watching Encounter at Farpoint I thought it would be interesting to go back and read this book again. If you want to get the few details of episode that weren't in it, read this. This is the Genesis of Star Trek The Next Generation!
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Summary: Great novelization!
Review: David Gerrold did a wonderful job with the novelization of the episode that started The Next Generation! After purchasing the first season of TNG on DVD and watching Encounter at Farpoint I thought it would be interesting to go back and read this book again. If you want to get the few details of episode that weren't in it, read this. This is the Genesis of Star Trek The Next Generation!
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Summary: David Gerrold fleshes out the "STNG" pilot episode(s)
Review: I have the original edition of the "Encounter at Farpoint" paperback with procliams this to be "The extraordinary novel based on the television episode wirtten by D.C. Fontana and Gene Roddenberry, Created by Gene Roddenberry," which pretty much tells you that the Great Bird of the Galaxy had a hand in determining what went on the cover. David Gerrold, who earned his permanent reputation in the "Star Trek" universe by writing the script for "The Trouble with Tribbles" and then writing about his experience in getting his episode produced, has the honors here for adaptation the script of the pilot episode for "Star Trek: The Next Generation." The nice thing about having Gerrold do this is that he is one sentence into the second paragraph of the book's prologue when he puts his own stamps on the proceedings. This is not Captain Kirk's "Star Trek," boys and girls.
"Encounter at Farpoint" introduces us to the new crew of the new starship "Enterprise" as they come together for the first time on "Star Trek: The Next Generation." One advantage of reading this adaptation of the script is that you miss out on seeing how dated the first episodes of the series looked (you can take pictures of Worf for each season and have little problem laying them out in chronological order). With the depth that Gerrold provides to the script in many ways this is a stronger story than what we saw on television, plus we can change the way they looked back then to the way they looked once they grew into their roles (none of this "Spock as he looked then" nonsense from when the original "Star Trek" took their original pilot and worked it into a new story with the new crew).
The "Enterprise" is visitng Cygnus IV to rendezbous with the ship's new first officer and other command personnel as Captain Jean-Luc Picard takes command. However the Farpoint Station, so named because it is on the edge of the known galaxy, has a deep dark secret that has to be discovered. But that pales into significance when Picard and the "Enterprise" have their first encounter with Q, who puts the crew and all humanity for crimes against ominipotent super beings. Of course, in the end this trial would provide both the beginning and the end for "STNG."
Gerrold provides an above average adaptation, arguably the best of those of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" episodes. This is pretty impressive when you take into account that when Gerrold wrote this it was early on in the process when "STNG" epsidoes seemed to be going out of their way to be reminiscent of specific episodes of the original series. Yes, Gerrold tries out some things that do not pan out in terms of the rest of the series, but the attempts are interesting and so is noting these as you read merrily along.
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Summary: David Gerrold fleshes out the "STNG" pilot episode(s)
Review: I have the original edition of the "Encounter at Farpoint" paperback with proclimas this to be "The extraordinary novel based on the television episode wirtten by D.C. Fontana and Gene Roddenberry, Created by Gene Roddenberry," which pretty much tells you that the Great Bird of the Galaxy had a hand in determining what went on the cover. David Gerrold, who earned his permanent reputation in the "Star Trek" universe by writing the script for "The Trouble with Tribbles" and then writing about his experience in getting his episode produced, has the honors here for adaptation the script of the pilot episode for "Star Trek: The Next Generation." The nice thing about having Gerrold do this is that he is one sentence into the second paragraph of the book's prologue when he puts his own stamps on the proceedings. This is not Captain Kirk's "Star Trek," boys and girls. "Encounter at Farpoint" introduces us to the new crew of the new starship "Enterprise" as they come together for the first time on "Star Trek: The Next Generation." One advantage of reading this adaptation of the script is that you miss out on seeing how dated the first episodes of the series looked (you can take pictures of Worf for each season and have little problem laying them out in chronological order). With the depth that Gerrold provides to the script in many ways this is a stronger story than what we saw on television, plus we can change the way they looked back then to the way they looked once they grew into their roles (none of this "Spock as he looked then" nonsense from when the original "Star Trek" took their original pilot and worked it into a new story with the new crew). The "Enterprise" is visitng Cygnus IV to rendezbous with the ship's new first officer and other command personnel as Captain Jean-Luc Picard takes command. However the Farpoint Station, so named because it is on the edge of the known galaxy, has a deep dark secret that has to be discovered. But that pales into significance when Picard and the "Enterprise" have their first encounter with Q, who puts the crew and all humanity for crimes against ominipotent super beings. Of course, in the end this trial would provide both the beginning and the end for "STNG." Gerrold provides an above average adaptation, arguably the best of those of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" episodes. This is pretty impressive when you take into account that when Gerrold wrote this it was early on in the process when "STNG" epsidoes seemed to be going out of their way to be reminiscent of specific episodes of the original series. Yes, Gerrold tries out some things that do not pan out in terms of the rest of the series, but the attempts are interesting and so is noting these as you read merrily along.
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Summary: David Gerrold fleshes out the "STNG" pilot episode(s)
Review: I have the original edition of the "Encounter at Farpoint" paperback with proclimas this to be "The extraordinary novel based on the television episode wirtten by D.C. Fontana and Gene Roddenberry, Created by Gene Roddenberry," which pretty much tells you that the Great Bird of the Galaxy had a hand in determining what went on the cover. David Gerrold, who earned his permanent reputation in the "Star Trek" universe by writing the script for "The Trouble with Tribbles" and then writing about his experience in getting his episode produced, has the honors here for adaptation the script of the pilot episode for "Star Trek: The Next Generation." The nice thing about having Gerrold do this is that he is one sentence into the second paragraph of the book's prologue when he puts his own stamps on the proceedings. This is not Captain Kirk's "Star Trek," boys and girls. "Encounter at Farpoint" introduces us to the new crew of the new starship "Enterprise" as they come together for the first time on "Star Trek: The Next Generation." One advantage of reading this adaptation of the script is that you miss out on seeing how dated the first episodes of the series looked (you can take pictures of Worf for each season and have little problem laying them out in chronological order). With the depth that Gerrold provides to the script in many ways this is a stronger story than what we saw on television, plus we can change the way they looked back then to the way they looked once they grew into their roles (none of this "Spock as he looked then" nonsense from when the original "Star Trek" took their original pilot and worked it into a new story with the new crew). The "Enterprise" is visitng Cygnus IV to rendezbous with the ship's new first officer and other command personnel as Captain Jean-Luc Picard takes command. However the Farpoint Station, so named because it is on the edge of the known galaxy, has a deep dark secret that has to be discovered. But that pales into significance when Picard and the "Enterprise" have their first encounter with Q, who puts the crew and all humanity for crimes against ominipotent super beings. Of course, in the end this trial would provide both the beginning and the end for "STNG." Gerrold provides an above average adaptation, arguably the best of those of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" episodes. This is pretty impressive when you take into account that when Gerrold wrote this it was early on in the process when "STNG" epsidoes seemed to be going out of their way to be reminiscent of specific episodes of the original series. Yes, Gerrold tries out some things that do not pan out in terms of the rest of the series, but the attempts are interesting and so is noting these as you read merrily along.
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