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==Summary== |
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+ | :''Eric Baldwin is the [[Federation]]'s premier [[xenology|exologist]], a [[specialist]] in all manner of [[alien]] [[lifeform]]s -- and one of [[Captain]] [[Jean-Luc Picard|Picard]]'s oldest, most trusted friends. But Baldwin's discoveries have made him enemies across [[the galaxy]], and now he wants Picard to help protect him by erasing all traces of his existence. |
:''But Picard soon finds himself with little time to worry about Baldwin's problems. For the [[USS Enterprise-D|''Enterprise'']] has suddenly become a strange, dangerous place -- a ship where assassins lurk around every corner, and even old trusted friends are not what they seem. Threats all masterminded by the strangest [[races and cultures|race]] of aliens Picard and [[USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) personnel|his crew]] have yet encountered... |
:''But Picard soon finds himself with little time to worry about Baldwin's problems. For the [[USS Enterprise-D|''Enterprise'']] has suddenly become a strange, dangerous place -- a ship where assassins lurk around every corner, and even old trusted friends are not what they seem. Threats all masterminded by the strangest [[races and cultures|race]] of aliens Picard and [[USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) personnel|his crew]] have yet encountered... |
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| Author: | Mel Gilden |
| Illustrator: | Keith Birdsong |
| Publisher: | Pocket Books |
| Series: | Pocket TNG #17 |
| Published: | June 1991 |
| Pages: | 244 |
| Year: | 2366 |
| Stardate: | 43747.3 |
| Reference #: | ISBN 0671709704 |
Wesley's childhood fears come to life... and take over the Enterprise!
Summary
- From the book jacket
- Eric Baldwin is the Federation's premier exologist, a specialist in all manner of alien lifeforms -- and one of Captain Picard's oldest, most trusted friends. But Baldwin's discoveries have made him enemies across the galaxy, and now he wants Picard to help protect him by erasing all traces of his existence.
- But Picard soon finds himself with little time to worry about Baldwin's problems. For the Enterprise has suddenly become a strange, dangerous place -- a ship where assassins lurk around every corner, and even old trusted friends are not what they seem. Threats all masterminded by the strangest race of aliens Picard and his crew have yet encountered...
- Excerpts of copyrighted sources are included for review purposes only, without any intention of infringement.
Background
The poem that Captain Picard recites to Wesley Crusher on age 144 is by poet James Thompson (1834-1882).
Characters
- Jean-Luc Picard
- Captain.
- William Riker
- Executive officer.
- Data
- Operations manager.
- Worf
- Tactical officer and security chief.
- Geordi La Forge
- Chief engineer.
- Beverly Crusher
- Chief medical officer.
- Wesley Crusher
- Acting ensign, flight controller.
- Deanna Troi
- Counselor.
- Guinan
- Ten Forward bartender.
- Miles O'Brien
- Chief.
- Barbara Winston-Smyth
- Ensign.
- Shubunkin
- Lieutenant
- Mont
- Commander.
- Eric Baldwin
- Professor.
Tasha Yar.
- Tasha Yar (illusory)
- Image of deceased lieutenant.
- Effie
- Rhonda Howe
- Howe
- Ward
- Birnberg
- Perry
- Ensign.
- Hiller
- Lieutenant.
- Sandra Borders
- Mentioned, as creator of the Borders Scale, and senior exobiology librarian at Memory Alpha.
- Chuang Tzu
- Mentioned, Chinese philosopher, 4th century BCE.
References
- Trilg
- d'Ort'd
- Orma
- Kobayashi Maru scenario
- Memory Alpha
- Professor Baldwin would catalogue his findings here
- Omega Triangulae
- Starbase 123
- The Enterprise-D took on Specialist Shubunkin from the Starbase a month prior to Stardate 43747.3
- Tantamon IV
- M-Class planet from which Professor Baldwin was retrieved
- Randy Yeoman
- Drink with a red, smoky head.
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