Ghost Ship

Ghost Ship
Attribution
Series:	The Next Generation (Pocket TNG) No. 1
Author(s):	Diane Carey
Publication information
Publisher:	Pocket Books
Published:	Paperback - July 1988
Pages:	254
ISBN:	ISBN 0671746081
Chronology
Date:	2364 & 1995

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

Ghost Ship is a 1988 Star Trek: The Next Generation novel by Diane Carey. It was the first novel in Pocket Books' TNG numbered novel line, and was the first original prose TNG story.

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-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.

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References

Characters

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

Referenced only

Borka • Cleopatra • Alexandre Dumas • Feklenko • Francis of Assisi • Harper • Kryo • Laura • Herman Melville • F. Palmer • Helena Rozhenko • Sergey Rozhenko • Stervasney • Bram Stoker • Ian Andrew Troi • Lwaxana Troi • Alfred North Whitehead • Yorktown captain • Yorktown second officer

Starships and vehicles

USS Enterprise-D • research dinghy (Federation shuttlecraft) • Sergei G. Gorshkov (Lenin-class aircraft carrier) • USS Theodore Roosevelt (aircraft carrier) • Vladivostok

Referenced only

Aegis-class (cruiser) • HMS Dreadnought (battleship) • USS Dwight D. Eisenhower • Edmund Fitzgerald (tanker) • USS Forrestal • USS George Washington (Enterprise-class aircraft carrier) • SS Great Britain (steamship) • Queen Elizabeth II (passenger liner) • USS Yorktown (Excelsior-class)

Locations

battle bridge • Black Sea • bridge • Nikolayev • quarters • shuttlebay

Referenced only

Athens • Betazed • Canis IV • Epsilon Indi VI • Klinzhai • Los Angeles • Paris • Starbase 18

Races and cultures

android • Betazoid • Human (American • Greek • Lithuanian • Russian) • Klingon

States and organizations

Federation • Soviet Navy • Soviet Union • Starfleet • United States Navy • United States

Referenced only

Federation Science Bureau

Science and technology

drydock • electromagnetic pulse • EMP weapon • phaser • photon torpedo • sensor • shields • shuttlecraft • turbolift • VISOR • weapon

Ranks and titles

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

Other references

1906 • 1955 • 1975 • 1992 • 1995 • 2360 • 2364 • 20th century • antimatter • asteroid • AU • blindness • cloaking device • coffee • command chair • euthanasia • gas giant • ghost • government • maître d' • Prime Directive • red alert • restaurant • saucer separation • solar sail • stimulant • Superman • titanium • The Wizard of Oz • zero-g

Appendices

Background

• Like the first season episode TNG episode: "The Naked Now", this novel was - in a manner which could scarcely have been imagined when it was published - rendered historically inaccurate only a few years later, as the Soviet Union no longer existed in 1995.
• The ship on the cover of this novel appears to be an upside down image of the titular vessel from Battlestar Galactica^WP. The only other ship this could have been meant to represent is the research dinghy in which Riker chases Data's shuttlecraft.
• Data is erroneously portrayed on three pages as being able to use contractions when speaking. This novel was written before TNG episode: "Datalore" established that he could not.
• This is one of two novels where Riker is referred to as "Bill"; the other is TNG novelization: Encounter at Farpoint.

Quotes

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

- Alfred North Whitehead^WP

Images

Cover image.

German language edition cover image.

German language reprint edition cover image.

German language reissue edition cover image.

Research dinghy.

Data.

William T. Riker.

Geordi La Forge.

EMP aurora over the Black Sea.

The moon.

Timeline

The majority of the book takes place in 2364, chapter one is on the 24th of April 1995.

Published Order
Previous novel: First in the series	TNG numbered novels	Next novel: The Peacekeepers
Previous story: Final Frontier	Stories by: Diane Carey	Next story: Best Destiny
Chronological Order
Previous adventure: Where No One Has Gone Before	Pocket Books Timeline	Next adventure: The Last Outpost
Previous adventure: Where No One Has Gone Before	Memory Beta Chronology	Next adventure: The Last Outpost
Previous adventure: Heart of Glory	DC Comics Timeline	Next adventure: Survivors
The above chronology placements are based on the primary placement in 2364. The Pocket Books Timeline and Memory Beta Chronology place events from this story in 1 other timeframe(s):
Previous adventure: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, Volume 2 Chapter 21	24 April 1995 Chapter 1	Next adventure: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, Volume 2 Chapter 22

External link

• Ghost Ship article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.