NOVEL
Contamination
Attribution
Series:	The Next Generation (Pocket TNG), No. 16
Author(s):	John Vornholt
Narrator(s):	Michael Dorn
Publication information
Publisher:	Pocket Books
Published:	Paperback - March 1991
Audiobook:	May 1991 (cassette); February 1995 (cassette re-release); November 1996 (CD)
Pages:	273
ISBN:	ISBN 0-671-70561-X (Pocket Books); ISBN 1-85286-359-5 (Titan Books reprint); ISBN 0671740458 (cassette); ISBN 067151251X (cassette re-release); ISBN 0671856839 (CD)
Chronology
Date:	2366
Stardate:	44261.3[1]

Contents 1 Publisher's description 2 Summary 3 References 3.1 Characters 3.2 Starships and vehicles 3.3 Locations 3.4 Races and cultures 3.5 States and organizations 3.6 Other references 4 Appendices 4.1 Related stories 4.2 Timeline 4.2.1 Publication history 4.3 External link

Publisher's descriptionEdit

From the back cover

The U.S.S. Enterprise^TM is stunned when famed scientist Lynn Costa is murdered in one of the ship's science labs. She and her husband Emil were known as science's greatest ongoing collaboration and, together had received the Federation's highest honors for their achievements in scientific research.

SummaryEdit

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ReferencesEdit

CharactersEdit

Enterprise crew

Baylak • Cavay • Emil Costa • Lynn Costa • Beverly Crusher • Wesley Crusher • Data • Grastow • Guinan • Hamer • Kraner • Geordi La Forge • Karn Milu • Miles O'Brien • Jean-Luc Picard • William T. Riker • Shana Russell • Saduk • Singh • Deanna Troi • Worf, son of Mogh

Other characters

Akree • Efrek • Jarayn • Gretchen Kaelen • Kwalrak • Mayra • Ulree • Ishe Watanabe

Referenced only 

Nadel • Megan Terry • Ian Andrew Troi

Starships and vehiclesEdit

LocationsEdit

Races and culturesEdit

Andorian • Antarean • Betazoid • Ferengi • Kreel • Orion • Vulcan

States and organizationsEdit

Microcontamination Project

Other referencesEdit

Orion tapestry

AppendicesEdit

Related storiesEdit

• Game, Set and Match! (TNG comic) - The assassin from this novel is seen again as a flashback from Picard's memories, in this comic.

TimelineEdit

1. ↑ The given stardate in the books is 44261.3, however the Pocket Books Timeline adjusts this 43951.6 to place the book shortly after the TNG episode: "Ménage à Troi".

Published Order
Previous novel: Fortune's Light	TNG numbered novels	Next novel: Boogeymen
Previous story: Masks	Stories by: John Vornholt	Next story: Sanctuary
Chronological Order
Previous adventure: What Went Through Data's Mind 0.68 Seconds Before the Satellite Hit	Pocket Books Timeline	Next adventure: Transfigurations
Previous adventure: What Went Through Data's Mind 0.68 Seconds Before the Satellite Hit	Memory Beta Chronology	Next adventure: Transfigurations
Previous adventure: Reunion	DC Comics Timeline	Next adventure: The Lesson

Publication historyEdit

• 1991
  • March - original Pocket Books paperback release.
  • May - first Simon and Schuster Audioworks audiobook cassette release.
  • Titan Books paperback reprint.
• February 1995 - audiobook cassette re-release
• November 1996 - audiobook CD re-release

External linkEdit

• Contamination article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.