Can't remember novel title

[Leprechaun]

Hi all - I'm not sure if this is the right forum, so apologies if it's in the wrong place!

I've just got this nagging memory of reading a TNG novel, once upon a time, where the Enterprise was on its way to some routine mission when *something* happens, and the Enterprise itself ends up outside of time in some kind of pocket/parallel universe, sans crew. To try to get back home, the ship's computer splits into two halves to try to mimic a brain, and becomes self-aware. There's some combat with other ships, the crews of which are trying to capture the Enterprise as it's much more advanced, but eventually the ship figures out a way of returning through space and time to the regular universe, at exactly the point it left. As it does so, it reconnects the computer back to normal, hiding the evidence that anything ever happened, but saves the events and the mind it loses as a holodeck program fronted by Picard.

Does this book exist, or am I going mad? :P Sorry I can't provide any more detail; this was years ago, if my mind's not playing tricks on me.

Thanks!

 

[RoJoHen]

If that is a real book, it sounds absolutely terrible.

 

[Christopher]

That's not a novel, it's a Strange New Worlds story, "Of Cabbages and Kings" by Franklin Thatcher, the second-prize winner in the inaugural edition of SNW. It's one of my favorite stories in that volume.

 

[iguana_tonante]

It was in the first Strange New Worlds collection, 1998. Short story Of Cabbages and Kings, by Franklin Thatcher. I happen to have this book on my bookshelf just here.

Well, it was mostly terrible. The idea was kinda interesting, but the execution bored me to tears.

EtA: D'oh, ninja-ed by Christopher.

 

[Leprechaun]

That was unbelievably quick :P Thanks all; now I know I'm not crazy. Might try to find it somewhere and see how much of it is as I remember!

 

[RoJoHen]

That's not a novel, it's a Strange New Worlds story, "Of Cabbages and Kings" by Franklin Thatcher, the second-prize winner in the inaugural edition of SNW. It's one of my favorite stories in that volume.

Okay, I can see it working much better as a short story. I was trying to figure out who would read a full novel where the only character is the ship!

 

[Stevil2001]

I remember liking it.

 

[Relayer1]

That was unbelievably quick :P Thanks all; now I know I'm not crazy.

Not necessarily !

 

[Starbreaker]

I know I've read it but I don't remember it at all. I guess I didn't like it or hate it.