Ghost Ship

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The USS Enterprise encounters a million lost souls - trapped on an endless interstellar voyage!

Ghost Ship is a 1988 Star Trek: The Next Generation novel by Diane Carey. It was the first novel in Pocket Books' TNG numbered novel line, and was the first original prose TNG story.

Contents 1 Summary 2 References 2.1 Characters 2.2 Starships and vehicles 2.3 Locations 2.4 Races and cultures 2.5 States and organizations 2.6 Science and technology 2.7 Ranks and titles 2.8 Other references 3 Appendices 3.1 Background 3.2 Quotes 3.3 Timeline 3.4 External link

[edit] Summary

From the book jacket 

In 1995, a Soviet aircraft carrier is destroyed by a mysterious creature that just as mysteriously disappears thereafter. Over three hundred years later, Counselor Deanna Troi awakens in her quarters from a nightmare in which she senses the voices of the crew of that Russian ship, whose life-essences were somehow absorbed by the creature that destroyed them. And the nightmare heralds a danger to the USS Enterprise itself, for if Picard can't discover a way to communicate with the creature, it could absorb his crew just as it did the Russians.

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[edit] References

[edit] Characters

Jean-Luc Picard • William Riker • Data • Beverly Crusher • Worf • Deanna Troi • Geordi La Forge • Argyle • Natasha Yar • Wesley Crusher • Sarah MacDougal • Arkady Reykov • Timofei Vasska • Myakishev • Feklenko • Leon Ruszkowski • David Galanter • Annalise Drumm • Compton • Harper • F. Palmer • Mitchell • unnamed Soviets • Laura

[edit] Starships and vehicles

USS Enterprise-D • USS Yorktown (Excelsior-class) • Sergei G. Gorshkov (Lenin-class aircraft carrier) • USS Theodore Roosevelt (Nimitz-class aircraft carrier) • SS Great Britain (steamship) • Edmund Fitzgerald (tanker) • Queen Elizabeth II (passenger liner) • HMS Dreadnought (battleship) • Aegis-class (cruiser) • research dinghy (Federation shuttlecraft) • Vladivostok • USS George Washington (Enterprise-class/Nimitz-class aircraft carrier) • USS Forrestal • USS Dwight D. Eisenhower

[edit] Locations

Athens • Betazed • Black Sea • bridge • Canis IV • Epsilon Indii VI • Klinzhai • Paris • quarters • Los Angeles • Nikolayev • shuttlebay • Starbase 18

[edit] Races and cultures

android • Betazoid • Human (American • Greek • Russian • Ukrainian) • Klingon

[edit] States and organizations

Starfleet • Soviet Union • Soviet Navy • United States • United States Navy • Federation • Klingon Empire

[edit] Science and technology

drydock • weapon • electromagnetic pulse • sensor • VISOR • EMP weapon • shuttlecraft

[edit] Ranks and titles

captain • commanding officer • commander • first officer • second officer • lieutenant commander • operations manager • chief medical officer • lieutenant junior grade • counselor • flight controller • engineer • lieutenant • security chief • acting ensign • chief engineer • officer • executive officer • air wing commander • crewman • admiral • doctor • petty officer

[edit] Other references

1995 (20th century) • 2360 • 2364 • restaurant • maître d' • government

[edit] Appendices

[edit] Background

• The ship on the cover of this novel appears to be an upside down image of the titular vessel from Battlestar Galactica. The only other ship this could have been meant to represent is the research dinghy that Riker chases Data's shuttlecraft in.
• Data is erroneously portrayed on three pages as being able to use contractions when speaking, this novel was written before TNG episode: "Datalore" established he definitely could not.
• This is one of two novels where Riker is referred to as "Bill"; the other is TNG novelization: Encounter at Farpoint.

[edit] Quotes

"Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the universe."

- Alfred North Whitehead

[edit] Timeline

The majority of the book takes place in 2364, chapter one is on the 24th of April 1995.

Published Order
Previous novel: First in the series	TNG numbered novels	Next novel: The Peacekeepers
Previous story: Final Frontier	Stories by: Diane Carey	Next story: Best Destiny
Chronological Order
Previous adventure: Where No One Has Gone Before	Pocket Books Timeline	Next adventure: The Last Outpost
Previous adventure: Where No One Has Gone Before	Memory Beta Chronology	Next adventure: The Last Outpost
Previous adventure: Heart of Glory	DC Comics Timeline	Next adventure: Survivors
The above chronology placements are based on the primary placement in 2364. The Pocket Books Timeline and Memory Beta Chronology place events from this story in 1 other timeframe(s):
Previous adventure: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, Volume 2 Chapter 21	24 April 1995 Chapter 1	Next adventure: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, Volume 2 Chapter 22

[edit] External link

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