The Genesis Wave, Book One
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An awesome weapon from the past returns to menace a new generation!
The Genesis Wave, Book One is a Pocket TNG novel – the first novel in The Genesis Wave series – written by John Vornholt. Published by Pocket Books, it was first released in hardback in August 2000.
Summary
- From the book jacket
- Intended to create life from nothingness, the Genesis Device had the potential to become a weapon of awe-inspiring destructiveness, capable of rearranging matter and life energy on a planetary scale. After the cataclysmic explosion of the Genesis Planet, and the Klingon Empire's attempt to steal the top-secret technology, Starfleet wisely decided to destroy all data and records on Project Genesis, hoping to bury its deadly secrets forever.
- But now a mysterious wave of energy is sweeping across the Alpha Quadrant, transforming matter on a molecular level to create bizarre new landscapes and life-forms. Billions of living beings and hundreds of inhabited worlds lie in the path of the mutagenic wave, which is expanding outward toward Earth.
- To discover the origin of the wave, Captain Picard and his crew must probe long-buried mysteries. But even if he can uncover the shocking history of the Genesis Wave, is there any way to save the future from its unleashed fury?
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Background information
- The audiobook version was abridged by George Truett.
- This novel, along with its follow-up, was collected in a Science Fiction Book Club-exclusive omnibus, The Genesis Wave.
Cover gallery
Audiobook cover, US cassette edition
Audiobook cover, CD edition
Audiobook cover, digital download edition
Characters
- Jean-Luc Picard
- Starfleet captain of the USS Enterprise-E.
Leah Brahms
- Leah Brahms
- Federation scientist.
- Tejeda
- Captain of USS Sovereign.
- Landwaring
- Captain of Neptune.
- Baldoru
- Captain of freighter Rich Prize.
Tomalak
- Tomalak
- Romulan commander.
- Jagron (β)
- Romulan commander.
- Damarkol
- Romulan commander.
- Horek
- Romulan commander.
- Carol Marcus
- Maltz
References
- Balboa
- Enterprise-E shuttle (Stellar-class).
- D'Arvuk
- Romulan D'deridex-class warbird, commanded by Commander Jagron.
Enterprise-E
The Terix
- USS Enterprise-E
- Sovereign-class Federation starship.
- USS Farragut (β)
- G'Anohok
- Romulan warbird, commanded by Commander Damarkol.
- HoS (β)
- Klingon attack cruiser. Leah Brahms was given command.
- Jaj (β)
- Klingon starship.
- Livex
- Romulan warbird, commanded by Commander Horek.
- USS Neptune (β)
- Defiant-class starship, commanded by Captain Landwaring, destroyed.
- Rich Prize
- Ferengi freighter, commanded by Baldoru.
- USS Sovereign (β)
- Sovereign-class.
- IRW Terix (β)
- Romulan warbird, commanded by Commander Tomalak.
External link
- The Genesis Wave, Book 1 at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
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