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Gallery Books (2010), 192 pages
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WHERE THE ADVENTURE BEGAN... CAPTAIN'S LOG, STARDATE 41254.7: The U.S.S. Enterprise(tm) is en route to Cygnus IV -- the edge of the known galaxy. There, we will rendezvous with the ship's new first officer and the other command personnel and proceed with out mission: discover the truth about Farpoint Station, a starbase facility built by the inhabitants of Cygnus IV, a starbase of unparalleled size and complexity...and infinite mystery. And the success or failure of this, our first mission together, may well determine the course of human exploration across the galaxy for centuries to come...
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LibraryThing member billfl
A novelization of the first episode of "Next Generation" by famed Trek writer David Gerrold. Most of the characters ae very unformed at this point, but Gerrodl delivers with what he has.
LibraryThing member MerryMary
Pilot episode for the TV show. I read it after I had been watching for awhile, and so probably mentally added to the characters more than was there, but I enjoyed reliving the episode.
LibraryThing member DarthDeverell
While D.C. Fontana and Gene Roddenberry's "Encounter at Farpoint" storyline set up many of the ideas that drove The Next Generation, it feels tonally disjointed compared with much of the rest of the series. David Gerrold's novel continues this, serving more as a promotion for the then-new Star Trek
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series than as a novel in its own right. Encounter at Farpoint reads more like high-concept science fiction from Asimov or Bradbury than a Star Trek novel in the same series as the others that Pocket Books subsequently released in the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s. Despite having a series bible, the showrunners would not flesh out many of the characters for some time, leaving some of that for Gerrold to do on his own in the novel. The result feels out of place compared with what came later. For example, Commander William Riker goes by "Bill" (pg. 79) and is uncertain about working with Data (pgs. 111, 124-125, and 130) while Lt. Commander Data uses contractions (pg. 9) and was found on Kiron III where he was created by aliens (pg. 130). Riker never goes by "Bill" in the series and the director trimmed his initial interaction with Data down to something less prejudiced. Data used contractions in a couple of the early episodes, but the writers quickly decided he could not do this. Additionally, the first season episode "Datalore" established that a human, Dr. Noonian Soong, created Data on the planet Omicron Theta. One of Gerrold's nice additions describes Admiral Leonard H. "Bones" McCoy's decision and journey to visit the Enterprise-D on her first cruise (pg. 97). Gerrold also portrays Captain Jean-Luc Picard reading the show's opening narration into the ship's log (pg. 10), a cheesy, if enjoyable, moment. Overall, Encounter at Farpoint, liked the television episode from which Gerrold adapted it, succeeds in building interest in this new Enterprise and her crew. Show Less
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English
Original publication date
1987-10
1989
Physical description
192 p.; 8 inches
ISBN
1451623461 / 9781451623468