All Good Things...

Introduction (blurb)
In the last seven years, Captain Picard and the crew of the Starship Enterprise have visited strange new worlds, encountered life in all its galactic diversity, and faced deadlier enemies than man has ever known. They have truly gone where no one has gone before, and in the process made Star Trek: The Next Generation into the most successful syndicated dramatic program of all time. Now, after seven years, their television journey is coming to a close. Pocket Books is proud to present the novelization of the classic final episode.

Seven years ago, Captain Jean-Luc Picard first faced the judgment of the Q Continuum -- a race of beings with godlike powers over time and space who presumed to gauge humanity's fitness to exist in the Galaxy. Seven years ago they suspended judgment, but now their decision has been reached: The human race will be eliminated, not only in the present, but throughout time. Humanity will never have existed at all.

The only chance to save mankind lies with Captain Picard. An old enemy has granted him the power to revisit his life as it was seven years before, and to experience his life twenty-five years in the future. With the help of friendships that span time and space, Picard struggles to defeat the plans of the Q Continuum. But even as he fights to save the human race from total extinction, he has been set up to be the unwitting agent of Mankind's destruction.

In his effort to save humanity, Picard must sacrifice himself and all those he loves... perhaps more than once. And if their sacrifice fails, all Mankind is doomed.

Summary
Picard bounces between 3 time periods in this episode that features the ever helpful Q. Q sits in judgement of mankind, while providing behind the scene assitance to Picard in allowing him to shift in time. Picard of the future has a sickness that causes him to create a break in time and creates an anti-time rift. The effect of anti-time run backwards so the Picard is responsible for the destruction of the entire human species.

Main

 * Jean-Luc Picard
 * William T. Riker
 * Worf, son of Mogh
 * Data
 * Geordi La Forge
 * Beverly Crusher
 * Deanna Troi
 * Natasha Yar

Recurring

 * Q
 * Miles O'Brien
 * Alyssa Ogawa
 * Tomalak
 * Mamoru Nakamura

Novelization only

 * Guinan
 * Katherine Pulaski
 * Keiko O'Brien
 * Alexander Rozhenko
 * Lwaxana Troi
 * Wesley Crusher
 * Reginald Barclay
 * The Traveler
 * Sonya Gomez
 * Robin Lefler
 * Mot
 * Elizabeth Shelby
 * Sam Lavelle
 * Ben Prieto
 * Ben
 * Calon
 * Sutcliffe
 * Mayhew
 * Munoz
 * Lee (Enterprise D)
 * Collins
 * Fletcher (Enterprise D)
 * Ensign Calan
 * Garvin
 * Genovese
 * Lieutenant McBurney
 * Rippert

Other

 * Nell Chilton
 * Gaines
 * Jessel
 * Kellogg

Referenced

 * Jack Crusher | Robert DeSoto | Alidar Jarok | K'Ehleyr | Benjamin Maxwell | Ro Laren | Norah Satie | Sito Jaxa

Starships and small craft
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) | Galileo | USS Pasteur (NCC-58925)  | USS Bozeman (NCC-1941)  | USS Concorde (NCC-68711)  | IRW Terix  | Negh'Var-class vessels

Locations
Referenced: Bajor
 * Earth
 * Cambridge University
 * Earth Station McKinley
 * France
 * Romulan Neutral Zone
 * Devron system
 * Starbase 23

Species
Referenced: Cardassian | Ferengi Tholian
 * Bajoran
 * Betazoid
 * Human
 * Klingon
 * Romulan

States and organizations
Referenced: Bajoran Resistance
 * Klingon Empire
 * Q Continuum
 * Romulan Star Empire
 * Starfleet
 * United Federation of Planets

Others
Batlh | Occupation of Bajor

Information

 * Other final episode novelizations include "What You Leave Behind" (DS9) and "Endgame" (Voyager). The back of the WYLB novelization describes it as "a powerful novel in the classic tradition of All Good Things..."

Related Stories

 * In the alternate future depicted in the DS9 novel miniseries Millennium, Picard develops Irumodic Syndrome.
 * The Devron system, introduced in this episode, was again featured in the video game Star Trek: Away Team, where it served as a meeting place for the USS Incursion and a Borg cube.