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Summary: Q-Squared
Review: Peter David has written many books for Star Trek and all have been pheonomenal. I'm not going to say that "Q-Squared" is his best yet, for there are others that are just as good, but it is wonderful. There's lots of good stuff in this one: romance, humorous lines and situations, horror, timetravel/parallel universe confusion, and science fiction at it's best. "Q-Squared" features unforgettable characters (too bad not all of them are real). Jack Crusher and the alternate Riker and Deanna Troi are some of those. There's lots of emotional dialogue with these people like when Crusher is lamenting about his dead son, Wesley and when Riker is reunited with his "wife" Deanna. Of course the real reason this book is so good is because of Q, who is the one of the funniest and memorable characters of Star Trek. And if you thought he could be a bit cruel and nasty once in a while, wait till you read about the villain, Trelane. WARNING: This book is not one to sit down and skim through in just a few hours. There's too much happening between the character development and the alternate timelines mingling. Take your time and read slowly; let it sit for a while and read it again. You can find all kinds of funny lines and stuff you didn't see the first time. Get this book. It is one of the greatest. For those of you that aren't "Trekkers" like me, you can still enjoy it, but some stuff may evade your understanding. I recommend anyone to get "Q-Squared" and, while your at it, you can pick up Peter David's other great books "Imzadi II", "Q-In-Law", and, my favorite, "Imzadi". Happy reading!
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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: 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: Absolutely amazing!
Review: This is undoubtedly the best Star Trek novel that I have ever read! It is immesurably complex! And, as the authour himself states, assume nothing. The last part of the book is by far the best part of the book. It is simply titled "Derailment". That is a huge understatement. That part is the most insanity-turned-sense that has probably ever been written before. An excellent book!
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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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