Since I just looked at a pretty sub-par Trek novel, I think
it’s time to head back to the man known as Peter David. He probably does good
Trek novels, right? I found today’s paperback novel a few years ago in a used
book store in Columbia. It’s a small store but they pack a lot of books in
there. I’ve gotten a few from there and I still go there sometimes to see what
they have. The cover called out to me. I mean, it has Picard, Q, and the original
“Flim-flam” man known as Trelane.
Q-Squared was released in 1994. I had known about Peter
David as a comic writer, but I had not been introduced to his Trek writing
until I read this book. As you can tell by the cover, it involves the TNG crew.
I’m not sure on when this is supposed to take place. I know it has to take
place after the episode “Parallels” (for some reason I want to call it
“Parallax”) since the events of that episode is mentioned here. I know it
doesn’t take place after the end of the show since some stuff doesn’t get
mentioned. I’ll get to that later.
Star Trek: The Next Generation – Q-Squared
Writer: Peter David
BRIEF BLURB: Picard and the crew get a visit from Q and he
has brought along Trelane to keep him out of trouble. Unfortunately, things go
south with Trelane and the entire universe gets put in danger.