{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.”<\/p>\n
Star Trek: The Next Generation — Forgiveness<\/strong> by David Brin, published in 2001<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n As for the story, it magnificently presents a theme that is rare in a graphic novel, or novel.<\/p>\n