Nothing that could ruin any of this wonderful novel but since the author showed an impressive knowledge and handling of a lot of episodes of The Next Generation and The Original Series, well, my inner Trekker was compelled to mention this non-essential omissions. And due to some development in the plot of the novel involving Data, I felt odd too a total omission of refering to the events in the episode "In Theory". There is an odd comment by Riker about not having brothers and while that's technically true, I felt it odd due the existence of Thomas Riker from "Second Chances" episode. And a happy reunion was that Reginald Barclay was able to interact again with the crew of the Enterprise-E. ![]() Such cases as "The Measure of a Man" and "The Offspring", specially since known characters as Commander Maddox and Admiral Haftel appear on the book. Definitely, there are some episodes that are the key structure where the novel were based on. While some references of episodes are less crutial than others. Jeffrey Lang, the author, did a marvelous job putting together and fitting in the right places and moments, the most relevant episodes about Data, but also other episodes involving the topic of artificial intelligence not only on The Next Generation, but also The Original Series, even reaching Voyager. The story is centered around the character of Data.ĭata is the only known functional positronic android and since his activation, the Federation has been trying to duplicate the experiment and/or constructing something even better.ĭuring this process, the Federation was able to came up with laws that protect the civil rights of artificial intelligence life forms. This is a novel from Star Trek: The Next Generation set between the films First Contact and Insurrection.
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