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 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."
References
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-D • USS Yorktown (Excelsior-class) • Sergei G. Gorshkov (Lenin-class aircraft carrier) • USS Theodore Roosevelt (Nimitz-class aircraft carrier) • SS Great Britain (steamship) • Edmund Fitzgerald (tanker) • Queen Elizabeth II (passenger liner) • HMS Dreadnought (battleship) • Aegis-class (cruiser) • research dinghy (Federation shuttlecraft) • Vladivostok • USS George Washington (Nimitz-class aircraft carrier) • USS Forrestal • USS Dwight D. Eisenhower
Locations
Shipboard locations
- USS Enterprise-D
- bridge • quarters • shuttlebay
Planetary locations
Athens • Paris • Los Angeles • Black Sea • Nikolayev
Outposts and stations
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
Appendices
Background
- According to a timeline released by DC Comics, this novel takes place shortly after the events of TNG episode: "Heart of Glory".
- The ship on the cover of this novel appears to be an upside down image of the titular vessel from Battlestar GalacticaWP. 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 TNG episode: "Datalore" established he definitely could not.
- This is one of two novels where Riker is referred to as "Bill"; the other is TNG novelization: Encounter at Farpoint.
Connections
| published order | ||
|---|---|---|
| Previous novel: First numbered novel |
TNG numbered novels | Next novel: The Peacekeepers |
| Previous novel: Encounter at Farpoint |
TNG novels | Next novel: The Peacekeepers |
| chronological order | ||
| Previous Adventure: Where No One Has Gone Before |
Next Adventure: The Last Outpost | |
| Previous Adventure: Where No One Has Gone Before |
Voyages of the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) |
Next Adventure: The Last Outpost |
| The above chronology placements are based on the primary placement in 2364. The Pocket Books Timeline places events from this story in one other timeframe: | ||
| Previous Adventure: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, Volume 2 Chapter 21 |
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.