Summary

References

Characters

B-4 • Data • Geordi La Forge • Leonard McCoy • Jean-Luc Picard • Shinzon • Symek • Deanna Troi

Referenced only

Philip K. Dick • Sigmund Freud • James T. Kirk • Lore • John Milton • William T. Riker • Montgomery Scott • Noonien Soong • Spock • Sybok • Lewis Zimmerman

Starships and vehicles

USS Enterprise-D (Galaxy-class) • USS Enterprise-E (Sovereign-class) • Scimitar (Scimitar-class) • USS Titan (Luna-class)

Races and cultures

Android • Betazoid • Human • Reman • Vulcan

States and organizations

Order of Sybok

Other references

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep • Earl Grey • Emergency Transport Unit • tea • fal-tor-pan • Genesis incident • katra • Scrolls of Surak • Thalaron radiation • The Collected Works of Philip K. Dick

Appendices

Related media

• TNG movie & novelization: Star Trek: Nemesis

Background

• This story takes place after Star Trek: Nemesis.

Connections

Star Trek: The Next Generation collected short stories, novellas and short novels
Strange New Worlds	I: ("What Went Through Data's Mind 0.68 Seconds Before the Satellite Hit" • "The Naked Truth" • "The First" • "See Spot Run" • "Together Again, for the First Time" • "Civil Disobedience" • "Of Cabbages and Kings") • II: ("I Am Klingon" • "Reciprocity" • "Calculated Risk" • "Gods, Fate, and Fractals" • "I Am Become Death") • III: ("Whatever You Do, Don't Read This Story" • "A Private Victory" • "The Fourth Toast" • "One of Forty-seven" • "A Q to Swear By" • "The Change of Seasons" • "Out of the Box, Thinking") • IV: ("Flight 19" • "The Promise" • "Flash Point" • "Prodigal Son" • "Seeing Forever") • V: ("Bluff" • "The Peacemakers" • "Efflorescence" • "Kristin's Conundrum" • "The Monkey Puzzle Box" • "The Farewell Gift" • "Dementia in D Minor") • VI: ("The Soft Room" • "Protecting Data's Friends" • "The Human Factor" • "Tribble in Paradise") • VII: ("Life's Work" • "Adventures in Jazz and Time" • "Future Shock" • "Full Circle" • "Beginnings" • "Solemn Duty") • 8: ("Morning Bells Are Ringing" • "Passages of Deceit" • "Final Flight") • 9: ("Staying the Course" • "Home Soil" • "Terra Tonight" • "Solace in Bloom") • 10 ("Wired" • "A Dish Served Cold" • "The Very Model") • 2016 ("A Christmas Qarol" • "The Sunwalkers" • "The Seen and Unseen")
The Sky's the Limit	"Meet with Triumph and Disaster" • "Acts of Compassion" • "Redshift" • "Among the Clouds" • "Thinking of You" • "Turncoats" • "Ordinary Days" • "'Twould Ring the Bells of Heaven" • "Friends With the Sparrows" • "Suicide Note" • "Four Lights" • "'Til Death" • "On the Spot" • "Trust Yourself When All Men Doubt You"
Star Trek: Explorer	"Q and False" • "Quality of Life" • "Broken Oaths" • "Prey" • "Growing Pains" • "Pulaski 2.0" • "The Disavowed" • "Paghabi" • "The Expert" • "Scramble" • "Dignified Transfer" • "Attempted Break-in" • "The Simulation" • "Family History" • "Into the Cardassian Quagmire"
Misc. short stories	"The Captain and the King" • "Last Words" • "Bedside Matters" • "On the Scent of Trouble" • "Life Itself is Reason Enough" • "What Dreams May Come" • "Twilight's Wrath" • "Eleven Hours Out" • "Darkness" • "The Sacred Chalice" • "For Want of a Nail"
Misc. novellas & short novels	"The Other Side" • "The Worst of Both Worlds" • "Brave New World"

Timeline

published order
Previous story: Passages of Deceit	Strange New Worlds 8	Next story: Trek
Previous story: Passages of Deceit Strange New Worlds 8	TNG short stories	Next story: Staying the Course Strange New Worlds 9
Previous story: A Girl for Every Star Strange New Worlds V	Stories by: John Takis	Next story: most recent work
chronological order
Previous adventure: Improvisations on the Opal Sea: A Tale of Dubious Credibility Tales from the Captain's Table	Pocket Books Timeline	Next adventure: Taking Wing chapters 2 - 4
The above chronology placements are based on the primary placement in 2379. The Pocket Books Timeline and Memory Beta Chronology place events from this story in 1 other timeframe(s):
Previous Pocket adventure: Star Trek: Nemesis Previous MB adventure: The Very Model Strange New Worlds 10	2379 sections 1, 3, 5 & 8	Next adventure: Death in Winter