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I finished this book the other day, unusually for me it was mostly done in one sitting (a 4 hour train ride from Edinburgh to Stafford) and I enjoyed it greatly. Before starting it I'd made a point to watch every Q appearance in TNG and Voyager, and in a way I was slightly disappointed - watched back to back in this fashion Q swings from a proper villain in the likes of Farpoint and Q-Who into a comedy character and ends playing family with Janeway in the latter Voyager episodes. Watched years apart this might have felt like natural progression but watched back to back the personality and motivation of the character just seemed confused and inconsistent.
Q & A basically ties it all together, explaining exactly what motivated Q and why he acted in the ways he did. Every question I had was answered, such as the meaning behind the "Don't provoke the Borg" line in Q2 and why the civil war started and so forth.
I don't normally do book reviews or write ups or anything like this, because I'm not what I'd consider well read and really lack the critical faculties for that sort of thing but what I really did appreciate in Q & A was how the narrative did intertwine and tie up all the Q appearences in Trek in this beautiful fashion - while I feel unqualified to judge the writing (beyond: I like it) the structure and concept for this book really were a work of art.
I would hugely suggest people watch through the Q episodes before reading this as you'll appreciate it so much more.
I finished this book the other day, unusually for me it was mostly done in one sitting (a 4 hour train ride from Edinburgh to Stafford) and I enjoyed it greatly. Before starting it I'd made a point to watch every Q appearance in TNG and Voyager, and in a way I was slightly disappointed - watched back to back in this fashion Q swings from a proper villain in the likes of Farpoint and Q-Who into a comedy character and ends playing family with Janeway in the latter Voyager episodes. Watched years apart this might have felt like natural progression but watched back to back the personality and motivation of the character just seemed confused and inconsistent.
Q & A basically ties it all together, explaining exactly what motivated Q and why he acted in the ways he did. Every question I had was answered, such as the meaning behind the "Don't provoke the Borg" line in Q2 and why the civil war started and so forth.
I don't normally do book reviews or write ups or anything like this, because I'm not what I'd consider well read and really lack the critical faculties for that sort of thing but what I really did appreciate in Q & A was how the narrative did intertwine and tie up all the Q appearences in Trek in this beautiful fashion - while I feel unqualified to judge the writing (beyond: I like it) the structure and concept for this book really were a work of art.
I would hugely suggest people watch through the Q episodes before reading this as you'll appreciate it so much more.
