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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: Superb.
Review: As I've said before, Peter David is unquestionably the best author of Star Trek novels extant. This is because he is capable of telling a dramatic, moving, action-packed story WITHOUT LOSING HIS SENSE OF HUMOR. This is what separates great Trek from good Trek. It is also what is absolutely necessary to tell a good story that involves Q.I've never been fond of the character of Q, because very few of the Q stories managed to successfully walk that tightrope. Most fail to see the humor in the character entirely, but if Q is written without humor, as a "villain", then there's no explanation for why he doesn't simply wipe the Enterprise (and perhaps humanity) out of existence. And those stories that saw the humor inherent in the character generally lost all sense of drama. Leave it to Peter David to be able to tread that very thin line, and write a dramatic, compelling story involving Q without losing a bit of the potential for humor. If you're not a Star Trek fan in good standing, you'll miss a great many of the references to various episodes, but that shouldn't detract from your enjoyment of the story being told here. But if you ARE, it will be truly amazing how David manages to tie in so many existing stories that were (apparently) unrelated, remaining true to all of them, but making it all work. "Where No Man Has Gone Before" and "Squire of Gothos" from the original series, "Yesterday's Enterprise" and "Encounter At Farpoint" from TNG, are only the most obvious examples.
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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: The Power of Infinite Possibilities!
Review: I must say that I particularly enjoyed this complex and intriquing Star Trek novel. It gives an all-new window into the world of the Starship Enterprise... Jack Crusher. He is, very simply, the one character most mentioned that we have never "really" met. This story opens up a world in which Jack Crusher was not killed in the line of duty. I felt this was one of the most compelling aspects of the adventure. However, there are too many "compelling aspects" to enumerate. This novel is literally filled with interesting possibilities and interwoven storylines. If there was something you had thought should or might happen while watching episodes like "Yesterday's Enterprise," they are probably addressed in "Q-Squared." The characters are well developed in each of the three parallel universes, and you get a real sense of the fragility of the universe. Throughout this novel I was reminded of the episode, "Tapestry" in which Picard meets Q during an artificial heart transplant. That episode made the same point as this book. Namely, you cannot second-guess every decision of your life. You must simply live it, and hope everything works out. Peter David does an excellent job of conveying that enormity, that urgency and that infinitesimal quality which is our universe.
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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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Summary: Best Star Trek novel, period.
Review: If you are a true fan of Star Trek's first two incarnations, you cannot miss this book. If you loved the Next Generation finale, you will REALLY love this book. If you loved Q and wondered why they never brought the Trelane character back you will REALLY REALLY... well, guess what I'm going to say.
This is, by far, the best Star Trek book, and I've read a bunch of them. Alternate timelines, insight into the characters, loose threads you NEVER thought would come together all unite in what would be an excellent book by any measure, but is an absolute must-have delight for Star Trek fans.
Q'll get ya if you miss this one.
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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: 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: STNG Q-Squared - Absolutely Q-tastic!
Review: Of the many great Star Trek authors that have been published, one of them consistently rises above them all with thought provoking, humorous and intriguing stories in this genre, that being Peter David. With Q-Squared being Peter David's second Q story, after STNG #18 - "Q-In-Law," he again proved that he perfectly captured the character of Q and put to print a true masterpiece involving this extremely intriguing character. The premise: Q-Squared is nothing short of brilliant as Peter David deftly weaves this tale involving characters from both The Original Series and past characters from Star Trek The Next Generation. Many a fan will remember Trelane from The Original Series episode "The Squire of Gothos." As Captain Kirk dealt with him, he was an extremely powerful but ultimately impetuous character that at the end of that wonderful episode he was proven to be a young character from an unknown race of beings. As you will quickly learn, the powerful race of beings that Trelane comes from is the Q-Continuum and guess who has recently taken on the responsibility for his growth and development, you guessed it, Q. As it happens, Q finds this responsibility to be somewhat taxing so he seeks out his good old "pal" Captain Jean Luc Picard, more affectionately known by Q as "Mon Capitan," to aid in this great burden. Here is where Peter David also firsts introduces the notion of the multiverse as he tracks us along in three different "universes," three different crews of the Enterprise and their dealings with Q and Trelane. I believe this to be the most appealing plot device in the entire story. What follows is as stated above, one of the best Star Trek novels to ever grace the printed page as we follow along on Trelane's bent to destroy the universe and Q's amazing trials and tribulations while he's attempting to stop him. I highly recommend this superb Star Trek novel to any and all who enjoy a great Star Trek story and to those who are just casual fans of the genre as this one does not disappoint in the least. Additionally, I highly recommend the audio tape or CD if you can get your hands on it as it is a great way to spend three hours on the highway, especially with Q himself, John De Lancie reading it. {ssintrepid}
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Summary: The best Star Trek book ever written!
Review: One of the unfortunate aspects of the star trek phase of my life was that I read this work before reading most other star trek books that preceded it. Compared to thsi masterpiece, most books about the Enterprise crew seem almost to be written on a 4th grade level. Peter David took Star Trek's most witty, intriguing and mysterious character (Q), and combined his story with that of an oddity from a horrible Original series episode (Trelane). The souce of Trelane's power and his species were a couple of those mysteries left unanswered by the star trek creator. In this book, we find out that Trelane is a Q and that Q is his godfather and mentor. This in itself would make for a delightfully entertaining story. But David adds a few parallel universes to the equation, the reality seen in Yesterday's Enterprise and a reality in which Jack Crusher was not killed when the Stargazer battled the Ferengi. Trelane is gallavanting around parallel universes causing disturbances (temporal and otherwise) as Q struggles to tame him. David uses what can best be described as a stream of conscousness style, constantly switching from universe to universe following the adventuries of his powerful and mischevious characters. There is one particularly excellent chapter (which cannot possibly be transplanted into film) descrbing Trelane's experience at the center of pure inanity. One drawback this book may have is that it does incorporate a lot of information from both the ORiginal Series and The Next Generation. I was a little disappointed the first time I read the book because at that time, I had not seen the Squire of Gothos and David did not go into detail describing Kirk's past encounter with Trelane. However, this is at worst a minor weakenss and informed Star Trek fans will see it as a strength as David seems to incorporate everything from Gary Mitchell to Rachel Garrett. Indeed, as one character informs another at the beginning of the work, "Son there is nothing we are not going to do today". Read this book!
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