Star Trek: The Next Generation: Stargazer: Enigma

Informationen zum Autor Michael Jan Friedman is the author of nearly sixty books of fiction and nonfiction, more than half of which bear the name Star Trek or some variation thereof. Ten of his titles have appeared on the New York Times bestseller list. He has also written for network and cable television, radio, and comic books, the Star Trek: Voyager® episode “Resistance” prominent among his credits. On those rare occasions when he visits the real world, Friedman lives on Long Island with his wife and two sons. Klappentext "Based upon Star Trek: the Next Generation created by Gene Roddenberry." Leseprobe Chapter One As Jean-Luc Picard made his way down the long, curving corridor on his way to Transporter Room One, he saw Lieutenant Urajel coming from the other direction. "Lieutenant," he said, favoring the Andorian with a nod. "Captain," she returned. But she wasn't looking him in the eye. She was looking at his head -- a common problem of late, as he had been compelled to shave it weeks ago in a place called Oblivion, and his hair was growing back more slowly than anyone had expected. At the moment, it was little more than stubble, and itchy stubble at that. Rather a nuisance all around, the captain reflected, as he passed Urajel and continued on his way. Unfortunately, his hair was the least of his problems. At the end of the corridor, he found a set of double doors, which hissed open at his approach. Beyond them, two of his people were waiting for him. No, he thought, amending his observation. Just one of them is still mine. That was Goetz, the red-haired junior operator on duty in the ship's primary transporter room. She was standing behind the enclosure's lone control console, awaiting the captain's authorization to proceed. The other figure in the room -- the one who was no longer Picard's to command -- was standing on the slightly raised transporter platform, dressed in a brown tunic with gray pants and a shirt of the same color. He had left all his cranberry-and-black Starfleet uniforms hanging in his quarters, as it was no longer appropriate for him to wear any of them. Picard met the man's eyes. "Mister Nikolas," he said. The ensign -- no, the captain reminded himself, former ensign -- inclined his head. "Captain." Andreas Nikolas appeared relieved, as if a great weight had been lifted from his shoulders. And no doubt it had been. A couple of days earlier, he had come to Picard with a haunted, hollowed-out look in his eyes -- the same look the captain had seen lurking there for the last several weeks. Ever since Gerda Idun Asmund had left them. She had arrived on the Stargazer in an apparent transporter accident, one that had shot her from her original timeline into Picard's own. As it turned out later, her transit was actually part of an elaborate plan to kidnap Phigus Simenon, the Stargazer's chief engineer, and put him to work for a rebel cause. Gerda Idun was foiled -- with Nikolas's help, as fate would have it -- and she was returned to her proper universe empty-handed. But that was only after Nikolas had done himself the disservice of falling in love with her. From that point on, the ensign's life on the Stargazer had been a little bit of hell. After all, Gerda and Idun Asmund, who looked exactly like Gerda Idun, were still serving alongside him on the ship. And every time Nikolas bumped into one of them, in a corridor or a lounge, he was painfully reminded of what he had lost. Picard had been aware of Nikolas's discomfort. However, he had assumed that Nikolas would get over it, as Picard had gotten over his own lost loves. So he was surpr...

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• Autori: Michael Jan Friedman
• Editore: Pocket Books USA
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 03.07.2011
• EAN: 9781451646351
• ISBN: 978-1-4516-4635-1
• Pagine: 272
• Serie: Star Trek, The Next Generation; Star Trek: The Next Generation
• Categoria: Narrativa > Science Fiction, Fantasy