Star Trek: The Next Generation — Forgiveness
{5/5} “And yet, almost a century has passed since the Palami plagues. Their present generation had no part in the disaster. I cannot help wondering if we are compounding their crime by insisting on this harsh curtain of permanent separation.”
Star Trek: The Next Generation — Forgiveness by David Brin, published in 2001
Decades ago the Palami unleashed a devastating plague, they say accidentally. Now they are requesting their quarantine be lifted. Captain Picard and the Enterprise-E are taking an ambassador who is prepared to say no.
Hundreds of years ago a scientist working on teleportation is accidentally beamed away. The Enterprise has snatched that beam and he’s woken up in a world he can’t fathom.
This is a graphic novel. The artwork is within that common realm where in most panels the characters sort-of look like themselves and in some panels they look exactly like themselves.
As for the story, it magnificently presents a theme that is rare in a graphic novel, or novel.
Brin knows the TNG characters very well — it’s too bad he didn’t write anything else in this universe.
I’ve read 12 novels by Brin and this is the 1st graphic novel I’ve read by him. I previously reviewed The Practice Effect.