 "The "Heart of the Storm" unleashed!" | 2009-02-18 |
| - Reviewed By User: AXRSKNDTK0WXP |
"Q-Squared" is another great Peter David offering that goes above and beyond your average "Star Trek" novel. You can never go wrong with Q, a member of the Q Continuum, a race of godlike beings with omnipotent powers who are nevertheless very annoying. David goes even further and adds parallel universes, a good helping of chaos theory, and Trelane, a bratty child Q who is tired of being told what to do. Apparently, even the all-mighty Continuum can seriously screw up, because some omnipotent genius has put Q in charge of Trelane. Oh, at first it's amusing (Picard even laughs in Q's face) but then Trelane makes Winnie-the-Pooh come to life in the Enterprise school and things rapidly deteriorate.
"Worf looked up from his station and said, 'Captain . . . security reports that they are under assault by . . .' He paused in confusion. '. . . a plush yellow bear.'"
Petulant and upset at being subsequently thrown off the ship, Trelane builds a machine that will allow him to tap into the chaos that holds together the multiverse. The result, of course, is pure anarchy. The story had also been following two other plots in two different Star Trek timelines, including one in which Captain Jack Crusher is still alive and divorced from Beverly (after Wesley's death), who has just entered into a secret relationship with First Office Commander Picard. As the three universes collide together and all hell breaks loose, Jack Crusher's ensuing insanity effectively mirrors the chaos that lurks within all systems, from chemical reactions to planetary weather to ecological population growth and fluid dynamics, to molecular vibrations and plate tectonics, to economics, the multiverse, and the human heart.
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| "The greatest book in all of Star Trek!" | 2008-07-13 |
| - Reviewed By User: AEX4BM6L3TRNF |
I have been reading Star Trek books since I was probably 10 years old. 15 years later, and a heck of a lot of novels later, "Q-Squared" remains my favorite.
It is not only full of suspense, but uses Star Trek history in a completely believable fashion and to tell a great story. Peter David also does a good job at creating charcters and plotlines that both boggle the mind and entertain. It's not a quick read at all, it is a very deep one.
He creates characters such as Jack Crusher that people familiar with the show have heard of, but makes them come alive as if you had seen them on the actual show. David also is masterful at using the existing characters exactly as they would behave, and blows your mind with dialogue and narration. His use of serious drama and humor all intertwined is remarkable.
I have read this book about 3-4 times, and this is coming from someone who almost never re-reads a book. Get your hands on a copy! |
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| "The Hype about this book.... is totally deserved!!!!!!!!!" | 2008-04-20 |
| - Reviewed By natureboytab |
As I am writing this there has been 87 reviews and a remarkable 68 of those reviews are 5 stars. Now it is officially 69 5 stars reviews!!!
This book was excellent. Peter David knows the Star Trek universe better than any other writer of Star Trek. He has 3 different story lines going at once. However he keeps them all seperate, as long as you pay attention you will have no problem keeping them all straight. Universe "B" is the universe that we all know. I would say somewhere right before the conclusion to TNG TV series. Universe "A" seems to be about the same time frame but is very very different. No reason to go over all the differences. If you've read it and just want to see what other people think then you know the differences. If you haven't read the book the fun in reading it is to find out about this universe and seeing the differences. I will tell you that Jack Crusher is Captain of the Enterprise with Jean Luc Picard being his #1. Plus Picard and Beverly, not to mention Riker and Troi's relationships are very different. The 3rd universe is set from the episode of "Yesterdays Enterprise" were the Federation is at war with the klingons.
There is an old enemy that is back. Peter David writes in Trelene from the TOS "Squire of Gothos" as a member of the Q, and it is Q's job to be his guardian. Of course that doesn't go according to plan. Trelene wants to combine all 3 universes and after he gets the upper hand on Q and sends him away it is up to Captain Picard and the rest of the crew or crews of the Enterprises to stop him.
This is easily the best Star Trek book that I have read. A must for any Next Generation fan.
Next for me I am staying with the whole idea of an alternate universe. I am going back to the "Shatnerverse". Avenger is next for me. |
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 "Trelane returns!" | 2007-06-16 |
| - Reviewed By leroyneiman |
| Greetings and felectations! It's wonderful to see Trelane back again. The paralles between the Q and Trelane are uncanny. David has done a wonedrful job of bringing together two Trek generations. |
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| "Pretty much strictly for Trek nerds" | 2005-12-20 |
| - Reviewed By jdodds |
| But you knew that already, right? It follows three different alternative timelines. One is the "normal" one, one is an alternative where Jack Crusher is alive, and Picard is his first officer on the Enterprise, and one is the alternate from "Yesterday's Enterprise," in a losing war with the Klingon Empire. Along comes Trelane, of an original-series episode, to mess things up. Turns out that Trelane is a young Q, and Q himself is his guardian, trying (with very limited success) to guide Trelane to adult Q-hood. Trelane becomes petulant (as he was with Kirk), and all hell breaks loose as he crashes the timelines together and sends Q into near-oblivion. Sorting it all out is a fun ride, but this is definitely a book I feel no need to keep after reading it. |
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| ""Tally-Ho!!!"" | 2005-08-13 |
| - Reviewed By erikld |
General Trelane (retired) returns in this book. The former Squire of Gothos is a Q, as it turns out. And Guess who is Trelane's mentor? That's right, that lovable imp known as Q. This is a blending of The Orginal Series and of The Next Generation, as it has James Kirk in it, albeit briefly.
A must for any Star Trek fan. |
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