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Summary: All potential left unused
Review: The second book in the Q-Continuum trilogy is even worse than the first one.We get a novel with as much potential as any novel can have, and it's left completely unused. "Q-Zone" centeres around Q's past, showing us Q's and Picard's journey through space and time. Unfortunately we don't get to witness the ultimate, surreal, fantastic Q-adventure, like the later released "IQ" by Peter David and John DeLancie, but insted we get to see tons of boring, irrelevant scenes, that are structured badly. Meanwhile on the Enterpprise, things progress absolutely nowhere, giving us pages of nothing intellectually, or even emotionally appealing. Irrelevant.
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Summary: If you like Q, you'll probably like this.
Review: This entire trilogy is a gold mine for those of us who are fascinated by Q. Unfortunately, it is probably not going to appeal to those who find Q annoying, or those looking for a classic Picard-centered adventure (even though he appears on the cover). In this book, Q, having kidnapped Picard right off the bridge of the Enterprise-E, begins sharing parts of his past with Picard in typical Q fashion... by transporting them both back in time to witness the events first-hand. As he does this, he shows us a completely different being, in attitude at least, than the smug, self-assured Q we are used to seeing on the TV series. We also see that Q was at least indirectly behind several of the adventures of Kirk and his Enterprise.
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Summary: Disappointed
Review: Well, being a long-time Trekkie (TNG is my favorite), I was quite disappointed with this book. Liked the premise, liked the characters, did not like the execution. This book, the 2cd of a 3 book trilogy had way too much talk and background info for my liking. It appears the author took 1 exciting book and split it into 3 much weaker parts. Profits are the only reason I can think of why this was done.
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Summary: All potential left unused
Review: The second book in the Q-Continuum trilogy is even worse than the first one. We get a novel with as much potential as any novel can have, and it's left completely unused. "Q-Zone" centeres around Q's past, showing us Q's and Picard's journey through space and time. Unfortunately we don't get to witness the ultimate, surreal, fantastic Q-adventure, like the later released "IQ" by Peter David and John DeLancie, but insted we get to see tons of boring, irrelevant scenes, that are structured badly. Meanwhile on the Enterpprise, things progress absolutely nowhere, giving us pages of nothing intellectually, or even emotionally appealing. Irrelevant.
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Summary: The middle volume is an overlong trilogy on how Q went bad
Review: "Q-Zone" is the middle volume in Greg Cox's trilogy which has Q telling Picard the immensely long story of how he was led astray as a callow youth. The first book made it clear that Q's story of how he became interested in testing lesser species has something to do with why he is trying to dissuade Picard from allowing Professor Faal of Betazed to pierce the great galactic barrier. It also becomes equally clear that this is not going to happen until the final volume, so "Q-Zone" is pretty much a holding action as the pieces slowly fall into place. The Enterprise is dealing with an attack by aliens who are trying to pay Q back for an earlier affrontery. Just to make things really interesting, Q's wife (Q) and precocious child (Q) are proving to be bigger nuisances that Q himself. "The Q Continuum" would work much better as a novel rather than as a mini-series. Furthermore, both of the main ideas of the series have already been done. The idea that there is something not worth tampering with beyond an impenetrable barrier was done in "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier," while incorporating powerful alien characters from previous Trek episodes was already done in Peter David's "Q-Squared." If Cox could have reduced these three volumes into a single one, it would be a much better story. Dragging it out to three books just makes the whole thing drag too much.
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Summary: ST: TNG - The Continuum: Q-Zone
Review: Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Continuum: Q-Zone written by Greg Cox is a book that unfolds more of puckish omnipotent troublemaker Q's past. This is the second book in a trilogy that began with "Q-Space" and will conclude with the third installment "Q-Strike." This book slows down a little from the fast pace of the first book, but all that means is this book is more reflective and we get to know Q's past or part of it. As Q is chased throughout the galaxy... as a callow youth... we see Q's rather enigmatic past and encounter Q's enemies. Along for the ride, Jean-Luc Picard must find out what secrets are hiding within all of this. As we are taken on an odyssey of time, space and travel on transcedenatal planes only reserved for the omnipotent. We get a closer look at Q, his "wife" Q, and their child q all being an omnipotent pain-in-the-rump as the Enterprise continues to battle one of Q's enemies. We see more of the omnipotent world as unrest and untrustworthyness seem to bring this astounding journey to a finalaty that would spell the end of time. As we journey from our universe's center to the galaxtic barrier, we meet some strange beings indeed, all in preperation for the first Q war. This trilogy is interdependent upon what was said in each of the preceeding books, so you must read them in order to make any sense out them, as they are NOT stand alone books. So far, though, I can't see why it took three books to tell this tale, as one longer novel would have done the trick. That is the only drawback, so far, other than that, this is a good book for the endangerment of the known universe Q style.
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Summary: Too Much for too little.
Review: Sometimes the best plots are the most simply to concieve. This trilogy takes great advantage of the "everything comes in three's" idea when the entire thing could have been done in two or less. Creg Cox is an excellent science fiction writer but I believe he limited his ability for imagination by chooses Star Trek as a medium. For crying out loud, he wasted nearly six chapters of the readers time with the in depth extinction of an ancient race. It was a well thought out section, but it just inturrupted the more important things going on. Also, Q stories are so difficult to write due to the fact that Q is supposed to know everything, but rarely does. If Q can do things as simple as read the minds of the crew, how was he unaware of Faal's actions in engineering?
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Summary: Unnecessary
Review: This book suffers from the Star Trek "2nd Book" curse. Any time they put out a trilogy, almost inevitably the second book is just a lot of filler to justify calling it a trilogy ("Dark Victory" is another classic example). This whole trilogy would have made an excellent hardcover, and they could have disposed of almost all of this second book. Riker and the crew fight desperately and aimlessly against the Calamarain (a fight that would have been over in 3 chapters tops in other books). Q and Picard watch the fall of the Tkon empire (again, something that merits no more than a couple of chapters...but stretches through the entirety of this book). Nothing in this book merits a whole book. You'll have to skim through it to keep up with what happens in the third (go straight to the last few chapters - it's where the important stuff comes in), but you'll have to fight to let it keep your interest. Fortunately, the next book is the best of them and really keeps things going like a great ST book should. Hey, I'm a huge Q fan, and that's all that kept me reading this one to the end.
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Summary: A great contiuation of the first book
Review: For those of you who like Q, space battles, and mystery, you'll like this book. Read the first one too!
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Summary: Good continuation, but drags on the Tkon history
Review: In this second book of this trilogy, we see a great deal of the Tkon Empire history, which ruins were found by the Enterprise in the first season episode, "The Last Outpost." In my opinion it drags on way too long and could have been shorten combined in parts with the other two books of this trilogy. We see what caused the fall from power of this great empire.
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