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Peter David's Q-SQUARED reviews/discussion thread....

Emperor-Tiberius, you are hotlinking that image, which is against board rules. Please turn into a link.
 
I don't get it... Could you PM me and tell me WHY is it against the rules.

Also, will you post a review/thought on the novel, or did you just stop by to correct me?
 
I read the book years ago and then again about a year ago. really enjoyable. I always like the peeks into alternate universes. I still wonder- Is the same Q in all of them at once or is a different set of Q in each?
 
I don't get it... Could you PM me and tell me WHY is it against the rules.
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Because it steals bandwidth from other sites. You're only allowed to hotlink to your own site. For example, I can hotlink to something on DeCandido.net, but I can't from StarTrek.com.


Also, will you post a review/thought on the novel, or did you just stop by to correct me?
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EMH is one of the two moderators of this board. His job is to stop by and correct people. :)
 
Two posts on the image of the book, and one comment completely irrelevant, stuck apparently with one little mis-used word of mine. How great a thread this has become.

Anyway, I really loved the TOS and TNG connections. I feel this is a nice, complemantary story to ALL GOOD THINGS, as it explores choices again, of the past.

Also, its extremely well written, and Q has never been more important as a character.
 
Q-Squared is one of the few Trek novels that I rate as a 10/10. It's a rip-roaring adventure for everyone, but it also rewards those who pay attention and who know the episodes well. David makes great use of the characters and their histories, and the Q have not been better to date.
 
Ah, Smiley... Always brings a smile on my face! :D

Anyway, I gotta agree with the Q have never been better, and I said so myself. Whats more, its those other stories, about Crusher and that what-if with Jack Crusher and his relationship with Beverly and Picard.

Also, you gotta love Trelane as a Q... He's exactly the same with Trelane from SQUIRE OF GOTHOS. Peter David's nailed the characterization, and I think that one was the hardest to translate to paper.

Overall, thats one TOS-TNG tie-up that I enjoyed, and felt natural and was brilliant, all the way.
 
I thoroughly enjoyed it when it first came out, but it's not one novel that I remember all the details for.

At a ST convention here in Australia, John deLancie once said he'd done a Simon & Schuster Audioworks reading of "Q-Squared" after having met Bill Campbell at a US ST convention - I think they may have got the two of them up on stage to play at being Q and Trelane for a bit. (William Campbell had just made his return as Koloth in DS9's "Blood Oath".)

But when the audio came out it only had deLancie on it. Sigh. It made me wonder if I'd msunderstood deLancie's anecdote or if S&S Audio decided Campbell's delivery wasn't what they wanted for the production.
 
I read it a while back and enjoyed it. I've always enjoyed parallel universe stories and this is definitely one of Trek's best.

Aso for the first few posts, that stuff happens. You just gotta say o well and hope that the thread moves on.
 
It is, quite simply, the book that got me into Trek literature. Indeed, it greatly heightened my interest in Trek in general. I owe a lot to that book. :(
 
I haven't read it for years but I really enjoyed it. Wasn't in the novel in which Q teleported Geordi into a female crew member's shower? Something like that?
 
^I think that might have happened, though it's been a while since I read the novel as well. The bit of "hijinks" that sticks out in my mind the clearest is Trelane bringing the Winnie the Pooh characters to life in the Enterprise classroom. I seem to remember Worf making a crack about the bear having very little brain. :p

This is definitely one of my all-time favorites, both from PAD and as a Trek novel in general. This, Vendetta, and Q-in-Law were the three novels I would have loved to see adapted for the big screen.

Emperor-Tiberius said:
Two posts on the image of the book, and one comment completely irrelevant, stuck apparently with one little mis-used word of mine. How great a thread this has become.
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You did something wrong and got corrected by the moderator. Oh no. What is the world coming to. :borg:
 
Jack Bauer said:
I haven't read it for years but I really enjoyed it. Wasn't in the novel in which Q teleported Geordi into a female crew member's shower? Something like that?
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Troi's shower, actually. And because the shower was, obviously, wet, he slipped and tried to grab on to the nearest thing, which was...

Well. Let us not upset the anti-meretriciousness faction. :angel:

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman
 
I really don't think I'm a fast reader...the typical 275 page Trek book takes me about a week (reading on the train and before bed) but Q-Squared I read in about 6 hours. Great book.
 
Like others in this thread, Q-Squared is one of my favorite Star Trek books (it's in my top five) and was in fact the first Star Trek book I read, which got me interested in reading others. Before that, I had been buying books for my mom for her birthday and Christmas while not being all that interested in reading them myself, until I heard about this book featuring Trelane and Q. That got my attention. :D
 
Nardpuncher said:
I really don't think I'm a fast reader...the typical 275 page Trek book takes me about a week (reading on the train and before bed) but Q-Squared I read in about 6 hours. Great book.
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As PAD notes, he's actually counting on readers to get through it in one go. His comments in VoI are quite amusing - it sounds like a heck of a challenge to keep it all together towards the end of the book.
 
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