Reunion (Star Trek: The Next Generation) [Hardcover]

Michael Jan Friedman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 1991 | Series: Star Trek the Next Generation

A thrilling new era begins for Star Trek: The Next Generation, as this New York Times bestselling series makes its hardcover debut. Captain Picard's past and present meet when he is reunited with the crew of the U.S.S. Stargazer, but a ruthless assassin has horrific plans for all aboard Picard's first ship.

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From Publishers Weekly

Once an officer on Jean-Luc Picard's first starship, the Stargazer , and now captain of the U.S.S. Excalibur , the Daa'V Morgan must resign and return to his homeworld Daa'Vit to become its ruler. Starfleet sends the Enterprise to escort Morgan and his honor guard, fellow Stargazer officers selected by him. But someone is trying to assassinate Morgan; the Romulans may be involved; the Enterprise is caught in a subspace disturbance and may miss the ceremony. In an impressive demonstration of multilevel writing, veteran Star Trek author Friedman ( Fortune's Light ) neatly ties this new book into the series, but also enables it to stand on its own: the patience of longtime fans is not tried by boring synopses, but neophytes will find everything they need in order to understand the people and events. The two plots dovetail nicely, with developments in each heightening tension in the other. New characters from the Stargazer are well drawn, while the familiar crew members of the Enterprise gain depth in their new adventure.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From School Library Journal

YA-- Captain Picard and his former crew of the exploration ship Stargazer are being escorted to the coronation of Morgan, an ex-Stargazer officer and ruler of Daa'v. During the voyage, a killer stalks the corridors of the Enterprise , bent on their assassination. Reunion abounds with subplots, but the novel falls logically into place, bridging Picard's past and present while remaining true to the Star Trek universe. Characters are not just ``Next Generation'' holograms, but real flesh-and-blood individuals experiencing life's joys and pains. While Reunion does not boldly go where no one has gone before, the writing is lively and entertaining and it is one of the better ``Next Generation'' novels. A surefire hit, especially as 1992 is the series' fifth anniversary.
- John Lawson, Fairfax County Pub . Lib . , VA
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 343 pages
• Publisher: Star Trek; First edition (November 1, 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671748084
• ISBN-13: 978-0671748081
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,152,220 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not bad., October 19, 2001

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James Yanni (Bellefontaine Neighbors, Mo. USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Reunion (Star Trek: The Next Generation) (Hardcover)

The book is well-crafted, its characters -- both previously established characters and newly created ones -- well-developed and for the most part plausible, the exception being the "villain" of the piece, whose motivations are too cardboard and trite to be plausible. The dialogue works, and the plot, while it starts somewhat slowly, becomes compelling as the story moves along. Unfortunately, the ending is somewhat unsatisfactory; the story is, essentially, a detective murder mystery in Star Trek's clothing, and I do not feel that the answer to "whodunnit" had been adequately foreshadowed in the earlier storyline. In retrospect, there WAS some attempt at foreshadowing, but it simply didn't ring true when the actual would-be murderer was revealed.

Definitely a good read, but just as definitely flawed.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The 1st Entry in the Stargazer Series!, February 14, 2008

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picardfan007 (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Reunion (Star Trek: The Next Generation) (Hardcover)

Reunion teams Picard with his former Stargazer crew to solve a murder mystery. One of the crew is picking off Enterprise crew members one by one. Picard and his staff must discover who the culprit is before the Enterprise is destroyed. Star Trek is hardly the place for a mystery. However MJF makes the book work with solid pacing and characterization. This book sets Friedman's Stargazer series into motion. We get to see interesting characters, prior to the Next Generation. I wish Friedman were still writing Trek fiction because his characters were always true to their TV roots.

In the new fiction all the interesting characters are gone! B4, Riker,Troi, are no longer part of the crew. They were replaced by characters that aren't quite as compelling to read.

5.0 out of 5 stars A well crafted, tightly wrapped story, September 26, 2009

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Charles Ashbacher (Marion, Iowa United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Reunion (Star Trek: The Next Generation) (Hardcover)

As a consequence of one of them ascending the Daa'Vit throne, several members of Captain Picard's former crew aboard the Stargazer are on the Enterprise and traveling to the coronation. The Daa' Vit and Klingon Empires had been at war for some time before the interjection of the Federation caused a cessation of hostilities. Despite the years of peace, the hostility remains and it is very difficult for the Klingon Worf and the Daa' Vit Morgen to occupy the same room. All of their instincts are to fight to the death, yet Morgen is a Captain in Starfleet and a close friend of Picard so both of them must bury their instincts and learn to tolerate each other.
That tolerance must quickly be turned into a working relationship, as there is an assassin on board the Enterprise that is determine to kill Morgen. The assassin is extremely competent in the technical sense, able to reprogram a holodeck into a killing machine as well as reprogramming food synthesizers and also extremely skilled in hand-to-hand combat. The situation is made even worse by the Enterprise inadvertently entering a subspace slipstream that moves them along at warp 9.5 and seems impenetrable. A secondary subplot is the effort that Dr. Crusher must make to keep her dead husband from her thoughts, for Jack Crusher served on the Stargazer and was killed rescuing the ship.
The action is fast, furious and consistent with the usual actions of the Next Generation crew. All perform admirably, Worf is the gruff Klingon that puts duty over personal feelings, Geordi is a miracle worker in engineering and Riker manages to woo and bed a female. Picard's former shipmates prove to be quite talkative to the point of insubordination yet in general they are all appealing, their conversations are much more open and honest, something that the Enterprise crew cannot do given their positions. Of course, the Enterprise is saved, the assassin discovered and disarmed and Morgen ascends the throne and galactic peace is preserved.
Some of the best stories are those where you know the literary destination beforehand yet the path there is so engaging that the foreknowledge is rendered irrelevant. This is one such story.