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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: A fun read, but not as good as expected
Review: This was a fun read, but not as thoroughly entertaining as I thought it would be. The story started off well with the first book. Cox has Q's voice down pat (the older Q that we are familiar with that is), and the inclusion of Q (Q's wife seen in the Voyager episode "The Q and the Grey") and q (their baby) was very entertaining. Moving into the second book, the story slows down a lot. Overall the story is interesting, but not absorbing. I found that I had trouble focusing on it, but I can't say for certain why that was. The background on the Tkon Empire is interesting as is the previously unseen history of Q. The third book, of course, wraps up the story. Despite the grave struggle that Picard, Q, and company went through to resolve things, I didn't feel the excitement of it all. Again, I can't put my finger on any particular reason, but the series was a bit of a disappointment, though it was still fun. There are three major problems with the Q Continuum series: The first is too much of a reliance on references to events in past episodes of the TV series. An occasional reference is OK but these books, especially the first one, are littered with them. There are so many of these that it becomes distracting. It is a great way to take up space and make the book longer, but it does nothing for the story since the people reading these books are already Star Trek fans and are already familiar with all of these events. The second problem is spotty editing. This has been a problem with Star Trek novels, especially the Voyager books, but this series is, in this respect, the worst that I have read so far. The problems are mainly in the form of entire words missing from sentences, or duplicate words. One or two such mistakes in a 275-page book may be understandable, but when there are as many as there are here it just becomes distracting. There are 32 such occurrences in the third book alone! The third problem that I had with the series is that even near the end of the second book Picard was asking himself why Q had brought him on the journey and what it had to do with the barrier. This is ridiculous. The reason is obvious to the reader as soon as 0 commits his first transgression and Picard would have probably figured it out even before that. To think that he still didn't know after all that he had seen is stretching believability. But in the end this is an entertaining story and if you are a fan of Q then you should like it very much. They're not the best Trek books out there, but they are worth reading.
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Summary: Great book reveals stuff about Q you wouldn't have expected
Review: This was an excellent book, Q becomes more complex and more real as you read about his life. The points I really liked were how the book showed the life of Q but kept up with the Enterprise crew as well. The rough spots was the confusion sometimes created when the storyline switched. Altogether a great book and very informitive about the star trek universe.
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Summary: Slower pace, lots more information.
Review: This was great. Reading about how 0 and the others caused the fall of the Tkon empire makes you wonder about the fall of Earths own civilizations. It was also really cool to read about the effects the barrier had on the telepaths, as someone too young to have watched the original series.
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Summary: Too much Tkon!
Review: Too much story about the Tkon and Q and not enough about the Enterprise and her crew. It seemed that this whole book could have been paraphrased in one chapter at the end of the last book or the beginning of the next. Disappointing at best.
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Summary: A slow, gooey midsection
Review: Unlike the first book in the trilogy, the second book drags on. The author, contrary to what every sci-fi fan knows, continually confuses the concepts of "universe" and "galaxy". Attempting to torture Classic Trek and Next Gen villians (like Gorgon) into the Q biography is sometimes too contrived to bear. And the Betazed scientist -- please! Shove him out the nearest airlock already!
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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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