{"id":16403,"date":"2020-08-23T22:54:25","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T02:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=16403"},"modified":"2020-08-25T20:13:33","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T00:13:33","slug":"star-trek-tng-the-q-continuum-q-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/star-trek-tng-the-q-continuum-q-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek TNG: The Q Continuum &#8212; Q-Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;You can&#8217;t be rid of me so readily&#8230; I&#8217;ll be back if I have to wait a million years, just wait and see&#8230; I won&#8217;t be forgetting you, Q. We&#8217;ll meet again, count on it&#8230; I hope you like games, young Q, because I know whom I&#8217;m testing next. You, Q, you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Star Trek TNG: The Q Continuum &#8212; Q-Strike<\/strong> by Greg Cox, published in 1998<\/p>\n<p>The Enterprise has entered the galactic barrier, and a malevolent entity has merged with the telepathic Lem Faal. An entity banished millions of years ago by the Q. Meanwhile, Q is showing Captain Picard the results of the destruction of the Tkon Empire &#8212; Q and his acquaintances are on trial by the Q Continuum. When Picard and Q return to the Enterprise, they must contend with a Lem Faal who has acquired godlike powers.<\/p>\n<p>This is the sequel to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/star-trek-tng-the-q-continuum-q-zone\/\"><strong>Q-Zone<\/strong><\/a>, and concludes the trilogy in fine fashion. It&#8217;s about working together, sacrifice, and forgiveness.<\/p>\n<p>It features Quinn from <strong>VOY<\/strong> &#8220;Death Wish,&#8221; and the entity who thinks he&#8217;s God from <strong>Star Trek V<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read 12 books by Cox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;You can&#8217;t be rid of me so readily&#8230; I&#8217;ll be back if I have to wait a million years, just wait and see&#8230; I won&#8217;t be forgetting you, Q. We&#8217;ll meet again, count on it&#8230; I hope you like games, young Q, because I know whom I&#8217;m testing next. You, Q, you.&#8221; Star Trek [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,28,5,8,59],"class_list":["post-16403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-book","tag-novels","tag-review","tag-science-fiction","tag-star-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16403"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16409,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16403\/revisions\/16409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}