Spoilers TNG: Headlong Flight by Dayton Ward Review Thread

[Daddy Todd]

Just finished the audiobook on my drive home tonight. Loved it! It was a great listen after the slog through the Prey trilogy, which I stopped enjoying midway through book 2.

Loved seeing all the "missing" characters again.

Great work!

Now I want a sequel telling how Alternate Riker uses the

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tech

Picard gifted him with...

 

[JWolf]

You might want to continue reading Prey as it's referenced a lot in books that come after.

 

[20fridge]

I finally got around to reading this one and I loved it. I really enjoyed the alternate Enterprise-D. I was afraid this would be a rehash of Voyager's Echoes but it turned out to be just as good, partially because it used a similar conceit but took it in a different direction. Riker's arc was one of the best sub-plots in recent trek lit and the poker game in the epilogue reminded me of "All Good Things."

 

[tomswift2002]

I'm just reading this now.

 

[thribs]

Just finished it. It was pretty good. Felt like a typical TNG episode.
Reminded me of the latest Orville episode which is funny since it’s usually the other way round.
And yes I know this came out first.

 

[thribs]

Just finished the audiobook on my drive home tonight. Loved it! It was a great listen after the slog through the Prey trilogy, which I stopped enjoying midway through book 2.

Loved seeing all the "missing" characters again.

Great work!

Now I want a sequel telling how Alternate Riker uses the

Spoiler: Spoiler

tech

Picard gifted him with...

You know in the episode, “Parallels” you see that Enterprise which is badly damaged from the Borg and its Riker refuses to go back? That’s this Riker.

 

[Burning Hearts of Qo'nos]

You know in the episode, “Parallels” you see that Enterprise which is badly damaged from the Borg and its Riker refuses to go back? That’s this Riker.

Even as a joke, this hit me in the heart. I'm laughing about it now, tho

 

[Dayton Ward]

 

[Burning Hearts of Qo'nos]

I always wondered if our Worf was the only one being displaced with another single Worf at any given time or if that every Worf in every parallel universe was being switched out with another. Either way, it certainly sucks for the Worf that was stuck on that Enterprise.

 

[Jinn]

I always wondered if our Worf was the only one being displaced with another single Worf at any given time or if that every Worf in every parallel universe was being switched out with another. Either way, it certainly sucks for the Worf that was stuck on that Enterprise.

IIRC Q & A established/implied that the Worf parallels thing happened due to Q because he wanted to prepare Worf or something like that, so it was probably only our Worf.

 

[Burning Hearts of Qo'nos]

IIRC Q & A established/implied that the Worf parallels thing happened due to Q because he wanted to prepare Worf or something like that, so it was probably only our Worf.

It's been a hot minute since I've read it, but that does sound vaguely familiar. That book said pretty much all those weird space/timey whimey episodes were thanks to Q more or less, if I am vaguely remembering correctly, yes?

 

[Jinn]

It's been a hot minute since I've read it, but that does sound vaguely familiar. That book said pretty much all those weird space/timey whimey episodes were thanks to Q more or less, if I am vaguely remembering correctly, yes?

Yeah, sounds about right.

 

[T'Ressa Dax]

IIRC Q & A established/implied that the Worf parallels thing happened due to Q because he wanted to prepare Worf or something like that, so it was probably only our Worf.

Except... isn't there a scene toward the end with lots of Worfs on the shuttle?

 

[jaime]

Except... isn't there a scene toward the end with lots of Worfs on the shuttle?

It’s more like a multi exposure where they show lots of different Worfs taking their place on the shuttle if I remember.

 

[Enterprise1701]

IIRC Q & A established/implied that the Worf parallels thing happened due to Q because he wanted to prepare Worf or something like that, so it was probably only our Worf.

Yep. In Q & A, Q tells the main reality's Worf that he caused the events of "Parallels" to prepare Worf for helping Picard in Q&A.
But in Q & A, various Enterprise captains from multiple realities recall that their Worf experienced the events of "Parallels", citing Worf's experience as an explanation for current happenings. Also a reality-jumping character in DTI - Watching the Clock stated that "Parallels" happened to his reality's Worf too.

It's been a hot minute since I've read it, but that does sound vaguely familiar. That book said pretty much all those weird space/timey whimey episodes were thanks to Q more or less, if I am vaguely remembering correctly, yes?

What? Do you refer to all time travel episodes in the TNG TV series? I thought in Q & A, Q was only referring to "Parallels".

 

[David cgc]

What? Do you refer to all time travel episodes in the TNG TV series? I thought in Q & A, Q was only referring to "Parallels".

I think it was more than that. I'm pretty sure the weird whirlpool thingy in "Time Squared" was explained, possibly along with Picard's inexplicable need to murder future-Picard.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

a reality-jumping character in DTI - Watching the Clock stated that "Parallels" happened to his reality's Worf too.

Really? What character was that?

 

[Christopher]

I think it was more than that. I'm pretty sure the weird whirlpool thingy in "Time Squared" was explained, possibly along with Picard's inexplicable need to murder future-Picard.

I think that comes from Peter David's Q Squared, not Q & A. I gave the "Time Squared" anomaly a different explanation in Watching the Clock.

 

[David cgc]

I think that comes from Peter David's Q Squared, not Q & A. I gave the "Time Squared" anomaly a different explanation in Watching the Clock.

WTC must have been what I was thinking of. Q-Squared argued that the E-D's high incident of anomalies was because Trelane was infatuated with the name and his experiments with space/time, but didn't go into specifics about a reason or motivation for any given one.

 

[Mysterion]

Enjoyed this one.

Especially the sly reference to the 1970's Saturday morning TV series Space Academy as a series of stories Picard reads to his son...