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| Author: | Peter David |
| Illustrator: | Cintron |
| Publisher: | Pocket Books |
| Series: | Pocket TNG #5 |
| Published: | March 1989 |
| Pages: | 275 |
| Year: | 2365 |
| Stardate: | Unknown |
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A hidden cache of superweapons -- a deadly race to prevent galactic war!
Summary
- From the book jacket
- Deep in the uncharted regions of our galaxy, the Kreel, a primitive, warlike race have stumbled upon weapons powerful beyond their wildest imagination. The Kreel have used those weapons to attack their most bitter enemies, the Klingons.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the USS Enterprise are called in to mediate the dispute by ferrying diplomatic teams from the two warring races to the source of their conflict, the mysterious planet where the weapons were discovered, in an attempt to find a peaceful solution to the conflict, and discover the origins of the super-powerful weapons.
- Before the galaxy erupts into full-scale war...
- Excerpts of copyrighted sources are included for review purposes only, without any intention of infringement.
Background
- This is author Peter David's first in a long series of Star Trek novels.
- Data is erroneously protrayed on four pages as being able to use contractions when speaking.
Characters
- Jean-Luc Picard
- Enterprise-D captain.
- William Riker
- Enterprise-D first officer.
- Data
- Android Enterprise-D operations manager.
- Geordi La Forge
- VISOR-sighted Enterprise-D chief engineer.
- Katherine Pulaski
- Enterprise-D chief medical officer.
- Deanna Troi
- Enterprise-D counselor.
- Wesley Crusher
- Acting ensign, Enterprise-D flight controller.
- Worf
- Enterprise-D security chief.
- Guinan
- Enterprise-D bartender.
- Budian
- Kreel.
- Aneel
- Kreel.
- Tron
- Klingon.
- Spyre
- Klingon.
- Deni
- Klingon commander
- Commander in charge of the Kothulu.
- Bobbi Chase
- Named for Star Trek (Marvel) editor Bobbi Chase.
- Marks
- Lieutenant.
- Taka Nagai
- Ambassador
- Kobry
- Klingon ambassador. Kobry's backstory indicates he may be the unnamed Klingon boy named "Bernie", seen in Star Trek (DC volume 1) comic book stories penned by Peter David.
- Westerby
- Admiral
- Jaan Baat-Utuul-Bayn-Devin
- A Selelvian "elf".
- Gava
- Bors
- Tom Chafin
- Starfleet ensign who served a relief flight controller on the Enterprise-D. Chafin vocalized a disrespectful comment about Wesley Crusher during a conference on the bridge. Picard took the out-of-turn remak as a sign the ensign needed a change of scenery, and reassigned Chafin to security. Chafin was later tricked by Jaan into abandning his guard post. Chafin would appear again as a lieutenant, in "Vendetta".
- Sklar
- Derl
- Tuttle
- LaVelle
- Palmeiro
- Dykstra
- Meyer
- Enterprise-D security.
- Boyajian
- Enterprise-D security.
- Amy
References
- Cantos V
- Cognoscente
- Daedalus IV
- DQN1196 ("Hellhole")
- flarg
- Expletive used by the Kreel, "How the flarg do we get though there?", for example.
- Gamma Origi III
- Klingons
- IKS Kothulu
- Klingon battlecruiser. Possibly named for the Cthulhu stories created by horror master H.P. Lovecraft.
- Kreel
- The Kreel appear again in later novels by David, and are even used by other authors.
- Selelvians
- Selelvians would appear again in the Star Trek: New Frontier series. (See: Star Trek: New Frontier characters)
Timeline
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