Star Trek: Gateways — What Lay Beyond
{4.5/5} “It had felt good to be passionate about something, to want to fight for a cause that was so obviously the right one. The sensation Seven felt inside was an exquisite, heady one. She understood now why revolutionaries were so often willing to give their lives for what they believed in.” (from “In the Queue”)
Star Trek: Gateways — What Lay Beyond by Diane Carey et al, published in 2002
Captain Kirk finds himself on the birthing world of the Petraw with Tasm and Luz and the cylinder that powers the gateway. He eventually gets away from his captors and rescues Luz, because the other Petraw were going to throw her to her death.
Captain Picard finds the Iconians but they are not what he imagined — they’re not the people who ruled the galaxy 200 000 years ago. They are watchers, but they do find him worthy of help — they send him to a world with the Master Resonator, which will turn off all the gateways.
This is not a novel or a book of short stories. This is the conclusion of each of the 6 previous novels in this series. Thankfully, this was the only time Pocket Books did this.
In the Voyager conclusion, our old friend Q appears.
The Next Generation conclusion is the last one, and it wraps up the miniseries in a satisfying way.
It’s about taking risks in order to solve an important problem.
The Gateways concept was created by John J. Ordover and Robert Greenberger.
The previous book in the series is Star Trek: Gateways — Cold Wars.