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

Trent Roman said:
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...
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:devil: :guffaw:

I was just thinking...it's a good thing that Geordi ended up in the shower of the one lady crewmember who would be easygoing enough to shrug the whole thing off. Imagine if it had been Ro... :eek:
 
Yeah, that probably wouldn't have been the best place to end up. LOL.
 
Babaganoosh said:
I was just thinking...it's a good thing that Geordi ended up in the shower of the one lady crewmember who would be easygoing enough to shrug the whole thing off. Imagine if it had been Ro... :eek:
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Oh, I'm imagining...

Now I'm imagining Troi in Ro's shower...
 
Yeah - it really is.

oh, uh, right. The book. Yeah. Anywho...

It's absolutely one of my favorite novels, period. It's one I reread at least once a year, I love it that much. I love every bit of characterization in the alternate tracks (and the main one.) I love the feeling of how everyone is slip-sliding into insanity towards the end. My favorite part of the book remains the absolute gibberish that happens when Trelane finds the Heart of the Storm.

Good stuff.
 
Its one of my favourite novels as well. I remember reading it in one sitting after I bought it from the book store and just devouring it. I happen to love time travel/parallel universe novels in general but this was great! I agree one of the best things about it was how it degenerating into complete craziness and one of my favourite lines is Worf's reaction to Winnie The Pooh after Trelane creates them in one of the children's classrooms.

Admiral Young
 
I love that bit where Tasha of Track A runs into her counterpart from Track C.

Tasha-A just stands there and goes "What's with that hair? My God, I look like a boy!" :guffaw:
 
I haven't read this book since it first came out, when I was in junior high, but remember it fondly. I especially like the revelation at the end of the book about Jack Crusher, and how at the end (in the altered timeline) everyone ended up pretty much where they were at the start of TNG.

Also, the bit with the two Datas ("Tasha, we have a problem...") was hilarous.
 
I wonder how things could have gone differently in Track A such that Picard was *demoted* in rank after what happened with the Stargazer...
 
Babaganoosh said:
I wonder how things could have gone differently in Track A such that Picard was *demoted* in rank after what happened with the Stargazer...
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Well, he was court-martialled for its loss -- perhaps in that timeline he was found culpable and penalized with a reduction in rank. (Actually my first idea for the story that became The Buried Age was to have him lose the court-martial and be demoted for several years, but that didn't work out.)
 
As I recall, Picard froze and Jack Crusher drove off the Ferengi ship with his spur-of-the-moment invention of the "Crusher Maneuver" (which may or may not be the same as our Picard Maneuver).
 
Personally, I kinda like the fact that Track A was not the main Trek timeline. It was a nice change of pace(sp), since most things like it automatically have our timeline as the first.
 
My memory is faulty, but isn't there a line in the novel stating that the Enterprise is a magnet for space anomalies?

I think it's in this book.
 
There is something to that effect. I think most of the anomalies were the work of Trelane, who was subconsciously attracted to the E-D or something.
 
I read this book a long time ago, but I do remember thinking it would've been a great TNG movie. Like many of PAD's large TNG novels in my opinion.
 
^

I think it would probably be a bit like All Good Things - great for the fans, who can appreciate all the little twists on the "regular" universe and go along for the ride with a complex plot, but baffling for people trying to get their head around the basic things fans take for granted.
 
I don't know, I think if someone who knew what they were doing were to write it it could make since to everyone.
 
Man! Just finished this book. Awesome is the word! My first ST and my what a find. Just flicked this off the shelf on my holiday and whoa.. i couldnt take my eyes off it! too bad for my girl! ;) The last Sci-Fi that had me bound like this was Ron Hubbards' Battlefield Earth 3001!

Are all ST books this way? By the posts it looks like it was outagisworld even by ST standards!

I just loved the part where tracks A,B and C started overlapping. Total cacophony. Exhilarating!

Trelane - Q ominpotent beings.... Wat a thought!

I would like catch a few more of these. Can you lot suggest a few more good readings from here.

Thanks
Raz
 
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