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Deanna's life is threatened by a mysterious plague!
Infection is a Pocket TNG novel – #51 in the numbered series, and the first novel in the Double Helix miniseries – written by John Gregory Betancourt. Published by Pocket Books, it was first released in June 1999.
Summary[]
- From the book jacket
- Like the twisted strands of mutant chromosomes, an insidious alien conspiracy winds its way through the entire Alpha Quadrant, just as it stretches across several years of Starfleet history – beginning near the very start of Captain Picard's command of the Starship Enterprise!
- It is only the first year of the U.S.S. Enterprise-D's ongoing mission when a virulent epidemic strikes the populace of Archaria III, endangering the lives of thousands and provoking acts of mob violence against those believed responsible for the spread of the disease. While Data and Natasha Yar team up to uncover the true origins of the virus, Dr. Crusher finds the implacable sickness resists all her efforts to find a cure. The desperate quest for a cure becomes even more urgent when Deanna Troi succumbs to the dreaded plague… again and again.
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Background information[]
- An extract from this novel appeared in Star Trek Monthly issue 56.
Characters[]
- Jean-Luc Picard
- William T. Riker
- Data
- Worf
- Natasha Yar
- Geordi La Forge
- Deanna Troi
- Beverly Crusher
- Miles O'Brien
- Cherbach
- Ensign.
- Barrans
- Ensign.
- Anders
- Smith
- Ensign.
- Ian McCloud
- Icolah
- Schultz
- Wrenn
- Detek
- Clarke
- Ensign.
- T'pona
- Ensign.
- Tr'grxl-gn'ta
- Crane
- Ensign.
- Habbib
- Ensign.
- Charles Ehrhart
- Ensign.
References[]
External link[]
- Infection at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
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