Book Review: I, Q

Reviewed By: Harriet Klausner

I, Q     Amazon US HC Amazon Canada HC
John DeLancie , Peter David
Class/Genre:   Science Fiction   Star Trek TNG
Series: Star Trek: The Next Generation
Pocket, Oct 1999, $23.00, 249 pp.

The omnipotent Q feels impotent when the multiverse appears to be at an end. His Continuum peers celebrate the beginning of the end, but he worries about his inability to stop the big crunch from happening. Q decides to enlist the help of his biggest thorn, Captain Jean-Luc Picard to save his wife and child from the Maelstrom.

After too many encounters with the merry prankster, Jean-Luc does not trust Q. However, he realizes that something is amiss in the multiverse. He reluctantly agrees to an alliance with Q to uncover who or what is causing the end and to find a way to keep the light shining even as forces seemingly more powerful than Q try to bottle up everything.

I,Q is an intriguing Star Trek adventure narrated by Q in a first person dialogue. At first ,the lead character’s meandering babble is enjoyable in a Deja Vu sort of way, but the non-stop egotistical prattle becomes irritating to anyone who is not entirely enraptured by Q. The exciting story line never slows down as the audience accompanies Q and Picard on a wild journey filled with excitement and wonderfully weird characters. John De Lancie and Peter David open up a whole new perspective to the Star Trek consortium that will please fans of the series as well as the anti-trekkie science fiction reader.

Harriet Klausner

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