Q-Squared

Peter David

Aug 1995 · Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

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...

Ratings and reviews

A very good read (or in my case, audiobook) with believable characters. What more could you ask for in a Star Trek TNG book? It was sometimes confusing, I imagine that Peter David was doing his best with the plot at hand. But keeping track of all of the different time lines (multi-verses or what have you) in the story was hard at times. If you are prepared to re-read a few pages every once and a while to enjoy this book to its entirety, then go for it.

Maybe a little tricky at times to figure out what is going on, but true Trek fans should have no problem.

The combination of references and characters from TOS and TNG made this a truly enjoyable book.

About the author

Peter David is a prolific writer whose career, and continued popularity, spans more than twenty-five years. He has worked in every conceivable media—television, film, books (fiction, nonfiction, and audio), short stories, and comic books—and acquired followings in all of them.