Star Trek: The Next Generation: Q-In-Law
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Publisher Description
When two powerful rival families of the spacefaring merchant race called the Tizarin are to be joined through marriage, the U.S.S. Enterprise™ is chosen as the site for the wedding. Though Captain Picard is pleased by the happy duty, his pleasure is cut short by the arrival of the Federation delegate from Betazed: Lwaxana Troi -- the mother of ship's counsellor, Deanna Troi.
Despite Lwaxana Troi's romantic overtures toward the captain, the celebration seems to go smoothly until the situation is further complicated by the arrival of the notorious and all powerful being called Q -- who has come to examine and challenge the human concept of love. Suddenly, the festivities are in turmoil, the powerful Tizarin families are on the verge of war, and Lwaxana Troi is determined to teach Q a lesson in love that he will never forget...
Customer Reviews
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This book is amazing and is a must read for any trekkie! I simply loved it! But the person who typed up this book really needed to check their spelling! Please Fix
Lightly Entertaining
“Q-In-Law” by Peter David was an entertaining read… The Enterprise and Captain Picard are chosen to host a wedding of two young people from rival interstellar merchant clans. Various guests arrive from all the planets the clans do business with, including an ambassador from Betazed, Lwaxan Troi.
The final guest to arrive is the self-invited “ambassador” from the Q Continuum, Q.
Picard tries to throw him off the ship, but the heads of the clans insist that he remain as their guest.
Q insists his intentions are benign and he just wants to take part in the festivities, but the crew of the Enterprise is sure he’s up to something, they just can’t figure out what. Despite their entreaties to Mrs. Troi to stay well away from Q, he succeeds in thoroughly charming her and sweeping her off her feet…
As tensions flair between the young couple about to get married as well as their clans, Mrs. Toi continues to get deeper and deeper involved with Q. And the Enterprise crew gets more sure they’re missing whatever it is that Q is up to…
By the end, we get a showdown to see whose will is stronger, an omniscient Q or a daughter of the Fifth House of Betazed, Holder of the Sacred Chalice of Rixx and Heir to the Holy Rings of Betazed…
The story was okay. The writing was fairly simplistic and despite having watched the whole Star Trek: The Next Generation TV series recently, it often wasn’t easy to imagine the characters actually saying the dialogue as written.
I won’t avoid other books by Peter David in this series, but I’m not in a tearing rush to follow up on this one yet.