Encounter at Farpoint
by:
David Gerrold (author)
The U.S.S. Enterprise is en route to Cygnus IV, home of the technologically illiterate Bandi and their mysteriously advanced Farpoint Station. After adding to its crew complement from Deneb IV they are harassed and prosecuted by an omnipotent being named Q, who claims that humanity has not...
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The U.S.S. Enterprise is en route to Cygnus IV, home of the technologically illiterate Bandi and their mysteriously advanced Farpoint Station. After adding to its crew complement from Deneb IV they are harassed and prosecuted by an omnipotent being named Q, who claims that humanity has not progressed beyond barbarism. Captain Picard and the crew of the Enterprise must defend themselves by solving the mystery of Farpoint Station in a manner satisfactory to their newest judge and nemesis.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780671743888 (0671743880)
Publish date: April 15th 1991
Publisher: Pocket Books
Pages no: 192
Edition language: English
Series: Star Trek: The Next Generation 4
While the first adaptation of the second Star Trek series, this book is definitely one of the lesser works in the entire Trek canon. There's a little more background information than in the episode, but it's just mightily dull, even with the addition of Q and all the introductions. Much like that fi...
Made for a good fun reading at the time I read it. It's the novelization of the pilot episode. I read it pretty fast, but I had seen the TV episode.