Ghost Ship

The USS Enterprise encounters a million lost souls - trapped on an endless interstellar voyage!

Summary

 * From the book jacket : In 1995, a Soviet aircraft carrier is destroyed by a mysterious creature that just as mysteriously disappears thereafter. Over three hundred years later, Counselor Deanna Troi awakens in her quarters from a nightmare in which she senses the voices of the crew of that Russian ship, whose life-essences were somehow absorbed by the creature that destroyed them. And the nightmare heralds a danger to the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) itself, for if Picard can't discover a way to communicate with the creature, it could absorb his crew just as it did the Russians.

Memorable Quotes
"Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the universe."

Characters
Jean-Luc Picard • William Riker • Data • Beverly Crusher • Worf • Deanna Troi • Geordi La Forge • Argyle • Natasha Yar • Wesley Crusher • Sarah MacDougal • Arkady Reykov • Timofei Vasska • Myakishev • Feklenko • Leon Ruszkowski • David Galanter • Annalise Drumm • Compton • Harper • F. Palmer • Mitchell • unnamed Soviets • Laura

Starships and vehicles
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) • USS Yorktown (NCC-2033) • Sergei G. Gorshkov ( aircraft carrier) • USS Theodore Roosevelt ( aircraft carrier) • SS (steamship) • Edmund Fitzgerald (tanker) • Queen Elizabeth II (passenger liner) • HMS (battleship) •  (cruiser) • research dinghy (Federation shuttlecraft) • Vladivostok • USS George Washington ( refit  aircraft carrier) • USS Forrestal (CV-59) • USS Dwight D. Eisenhower

Shipboard locations

 * USS Enterprise-D : bridge • quarters • shuttlebay

Planetary locations
Athens • Paris • Los Angeles • Black Sea • Nikolayev

Outposts and stations
Starbase 18

Planets and planetoids
Betazed • Canis IV • Epsilon Indii VI • Klinzhai

Races and cultures
android • Betazoid • Human (American • Greek • Russian • Ukrainian) • Klingon

States and organizations
Starfleet • Soviet Union • Soviet Navy • United States • United States Navy • Federation • Klingon Empire

Technology and weapons
sensor • VISOR • EMP weapon • shuttlecraft

Ranks and titles
captain • commanding officer • commander • first officer • second officer • lieutenant commander • operations manager • chief medical officer • lieutenant junior grade • counselor • flight controller • engineer • lieutenant • security chief • acting ensign • chief engineer • officer • executive officer • air wing commander • crewman • admiral • doctor • petty officer

Other references
restaurant • maître d' • drydock • weapon • electromagnetic pulse • government

Timeline

 * 1995 (20th century)
 * 2360
 * 2364

Background

 * According to a timeline released by DC Comics, this novel takes place shortly after the events of.
 * The ship on the cover of this novel appears to be an upside down image of the titular vessel from . The only other ship this could have been meant to represent is the research dinghy that Riker chases Data's shuttlecraft in.
 * Data is erroneously portrayed on three pages as being able to use contractions when speaking, this novel was written before established he definitely could not.
 * This is one of two novels where Riker is referred to as "Bill"; the other is.