Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Genesis Wave (Book 2) FROM OUR EDITORS
As the Genesis Wave steadily overwhelms the Alpha Quadrant, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Starship Enterprise must form an uneasy alliances with former enemies.
FROM THE PUBLISHER
Like an unstoppable cosmic storm, the dreaded Genesis Wave continues to sweep across the Alpha Quadrant, transrorming entire planets on a molecular level and threatening entire civilizations with extinction. Based on the long-hidden scientific secrets of Dr. Carol Marcus, who has mysteriously disappeared, the wave of mutagenic protomatter seems to have come from nowhere, posing a cataclysmic menace to life as we know it.
To combat the rushing terror of the wave, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Starship Enterprise have been forced into an uneasy alliance with both the Klingons and the Romulan Empire, both of whom may crave the forbidden secrets of the Genesis technology for themselves. The finest engineers of three civilizations, including Geordi La Forge and his long-lost love, Dr. Leah Brahms, must race against time to devixe some way of halting the deadly wave before yet another world is transformed into something entirely alien and unrecognizable.
But even if, against all odds, the Genesis Wave can be defeated, Picard and his potentially treacherous allies must still confront the greater mystery of what unknown intelligence dared to launch the wave against an unsuspecting galaxy—and for what malevolent purpose...
FROM THE CRITICS
KLIATT
This second volume in the exciting Genesis Wave series (not in the numbered Star Trek series) provides answers to the mysteries left hanging in the first installment. The biggest mystery concerned the identity of the enemy who had kidnapped Dr. Carol Marcus and adapted the genesis matrix to a carrier wave, and had then released it toward Earth. The new enemy turns out to be a species of moss that Dr. Crusher describes as a cryptogamic parasite with telepathic abilities. Data is the only one not susceptible to the mental projections of the creatures that have released the Genesis Wave in order to colonize and propagate their species on the recreated planets hit by the transformational power of the wave. The Federation forces finally manage to turn the existing wave away from Earth and to destroy the source that created it before any more waves can be set loose. Although the source of the wave is destroyed, the information about how to create it survives, necessitating at least a third volume in this excellent Star Trek series. (Star Trek: The Next Generation) Category: Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror. KLIATT Codes: JSA—Recommended for junior and senior high school students, advanced students, and adults. 2001, Pocket Books, 294p., $6.99. Ages 13 to adult. Reviewer: Hugh M. Flick, Jr.; Silliman College, Yale Univ., New Haven, CT SOURCE: KLIATT, March 2002 (Vol. 36, No. 2)
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