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They thought the menace was over. They were wrong.
The Genesis Wave, Book Three is a Pocket TNG novel – the third novel in The Genesis Wave series – written by John Vornholt. Published by Pocket Books, it was first released in hardback in January 2002.
Summary[]
- From the book jacket
- The fearsome progeny of forbidden technology, the Genesis Wave swept across the Alpha Quadrant, creating new life at the expense of everything that lay in its path. Only through the valiant efforts of Captain Picard and his crew was the Wave halted, and the cataclysmic threat to the Federation averted. Or so it seemed.
- In the harrowing aftermath of the crisis, the Genesis Device falls into the hands of a dangerous religious zealot. But that disaster may pale beside an even more dire emergency, as Data develops a disturbing theory regarding the full cosmic consequences of the Genesis Effect: Can life truly be created from nothing, or must the entire galaxy pay a terrible price for what Genesis has wrought?
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Background information[]
- Author John Vornholt compared the relationship between this novel and the previous two with that between Star Trek III: The Search for Spock and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, calling it "a sequel dealing with putting the genie back in the bottle". (Voyages of Imagination, p. 221)
- The Science Fiction Book Club released a special edition of the hardback in March 2002.
- The audiobook version was abridged by George Truett.
Cover gallery[]
Audiobook cover
Characters[]
- Jean-Luc Picard
- Data
- Teska (β)
- Teska previously featured in Vornholt's Pocket TOS novel, Mind Meld.
References[]
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan; Genesis Project
External link[]
- The Genesis Wave, Book 3 at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
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