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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. 1   TheMadTurtle | Oct 9, 2009 |  David ties up the loose ends remaining from the original Star Trek's petulant Trelane character by creating a fugual masterpiece with Star Trek: The Next Generation's pedantic Q. Trelane is merely a child of the continuum, and Q's godchild. However, a child with omnipotent powers can be very dangerous if he throws a temper tantrum. Trelane's tantrum leads him to decide to merge the multiverse and start it over again. The four voice fugue allows the reader to see what might have been the Star Trek universe. What if Captain Jack Crusher had never died, but Wesley had? What if Ricker and Deanna were married and parents? What if Starfleet was forced to fight a war against both the Klingons and the Romulans simultaneously? Science fiction has a long tradition of asking "What if?" or "What might have been?," and seeing favorite series characters in new, break-out roles makes this book stimulating and fun. The track changes are clearly labeled to help the reader keep up with the masterpiece Trelane is conducting. The only remaining question is how can Trelane be stopped? http://home.comcast.net/~ktoonen/summ... (  )2 ktoonen | May 18, 2008 | A well-written and thought-provoking (if often confusing) Next Generation novel which postulates that Trelayne, an all-powerful immature from an episode of the original series, is actually Q's godson. Here he finally decides to shut up Q and the Q continuum and Picard by tapping into the infinite energy of Chaos, and collapsing alternate dimensions upon each other. Peter David makes ample use of this idea to explore "what-if"'s among various crew members, but his shuttling back and forth between alternate tracks gets kind of confusing. (  )1 burnit99 | Jan 8, 2007 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0671891510, Paperback)In all of his travels Captain Jean-Luc Picard has never faced an opponent more powerful that Q, a being from another continuum that Picard encountered on his very first mission as Captain of the Starship Enterprise™. In the years since, Q has returned again and again to harass Picard and his crew. Sometimes dangerous, sometimes merely obnoxious, Q has always been mysterious and seemingly all-powerful. But this time, when Q appears, he comes to Picard for help. Apparently another member of the Q continuum has tapped into an awesome power source that makes this being more powerful than the combined might of the entire Q continuum. This renegade Q is named Trelane -- also known as the Squire of Gothos, who Captain Kirk and his crew first encountered over one hundred years ago. Q explains that, armed with this incredible power, Trelane has become unspeakably dangerous. Now Picard must get involved in an awesome struggle between super beings. And this time the stakes are not just Picard's ship, or the galaxy, or even the universe -- this time the stakes are all of creation... (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:53 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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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! (