NOVELIZATION
Descent
Attribution
Series:	The Next Generation
Author(s):	Diane Carey
Publication information
Published:	Paperback - 1 October 1993
Pages:	288
ISBN:	ISBN 0-671-88267-8
EPISODE
Story by:	Jeri Taylor (Part 1 only)
Teleplay by:	Ronald D. Moore (Part 1) René Echevarria (Part 2)
Directed by:	Alexander Singer
Episode no.:	6x26 and 7x01
Production no.:	252 and 253
First aired:	21 June 1993
Chronology
Date:	2369
Stardate:	46982.1

Contents 1 Publisher's description 2 Summary 3 References 3.1 Characters 3.2 Starships 3.3 Locations 3.4 Species 3.5 States and Organizations 3.6 Other 4 Appendices 4.1 Related stories 4.2 Images 4.3 Connections

Publisher's descriptionEdit

The Borg are back -- and nastier than ever. No longer mindless, inhuman drones but cyborg soldiers on a mission to assimilate all intelligent life, their new goal is the complete destruction of the Federation. And in the midst of facing the Borg again, Captain Picard learns that he may be the cause of the change.

Commander Data is changing as well. For the first time in his life, Data feels a genuine emotion -- and that emotion is deadly, destructive rage. When it is revealed that the Borg are commanded by an old enemy out of Data's past, Data must choose between his allegiance tot he Federation and the one thing he wants above all else...

SummaryEdit

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ReferencesEdit

CharactersEdit

Albert Barnaby • Bosus • Corelki • Crosis • Beverly Crusher • Data • Goval • Harlock • Hugh • Kalin • Geordi La Forge • Lore • Alynna Nechayev • Jean-Luc Picard • Andrew Powell • Remmis • William Riker • Salazar • Solario • Zandra Taitt • Tayar • Torsus • Towles • Deanna Troi • Trossin • Wallace • Worf

Holograms

Albert Einstein • Stephen Hawking • Isaac Newton

Referenced only 

Brooks • Nicolaus Copernicus • Galileo Galilei • Adolf Hitler • Johannes Kepler • Locutus • Michelangelo • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart • Noonien Soong • H. G. Wells

StarshipsEdit

Borg Type 03 • USS Enterprise-D (Galaxy-class) • USS Gorkon (Excelsior-class) • USS Saladin (Nebula-class)

Referenced only 

USS Agamemnon • USS Crazy Horse

LocationsEdit

Ohniaka III

Referenced only 

Devala Lake • Finala • Mercury • New Berlin colony • Starbase 295

SpeciesEdit

Bajoran • Betazoid • Borg • Human • Klingon

Referenced only 

Ferengi • Vulcan

States and OrganizationsEdit

Liberated • Starfleet • United Federation of Planets

Referenced only 

Borg Collective • Cambridge University • English Parliament

OtherEdit

acting captain • admiral • Amish • android • assimilation • atmosphere • brain • British • captain • carrier wave • cochrane • combadge • cyborg • EM field • emotion chip • ensign • ethical program • flux inhibitor • German • heart • holodeck • hologram • inertial damper • kedion • kilometer • log • metaphasic shielding • meter • Negro • neural net • phaser • phaser rifle • photon torpedo • poker • positronic matrix • robot • sailing • shield • sublight • swimming • star • tachyon • torpedo • transporter • transwarp • transwarp conduit • tricorder • ventricle • VISOR • warp nacelle

AppendicesEdit

Related storiesEdit

• Avatar (DS9 novel) - While experiencing flashbacks induced by the Orb of Memory Data recalls deactivating Lore, from this episode.
• The novel Greater Than the Sum and the Strange New Worlds II short story "Seventh Heaven" feature Hugh after the events of this episode.

ImagesEdit

ConnectionsEdit

• Descent (episode) article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
• Descent, Part II (episode) article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
• Descent (novel) article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.

published order
Previous episode: Timescape	TNG episode produced	Next episode: Liaisons
Previous episode: Timescape	TNG episode aired	Next episode: Liaisons
Previous novelization: Relics	TNG novelizations	Next novelization: All Good Things...
chronological order
Previous Adventure: The Farewell Gift	Pocket	Next Adventure: In the Hands of the Prophets
Previous Adventure: The Farewell Gift	Voyages of the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D)	Next Adventure: Engines of Destiny