NOVEL
Ghost Ship
Attribution
Series:	The Next Generation (Pocket TNG), No. 1
Author(s):	Diane Carey
Publication information
Publisher:	Pocket Books
Published:	Paperback - July 1988
Pages:	254
ISBN:	ISBN 0671746081
Chronology
Date:	2364 & 1995

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

SummaryEdit

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-D 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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ReferencesEdit

CharactersEdit

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

Starships and vehiclesEdit

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

LocationsEdit

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

Races and culturesEdit

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

States and organizationsEdit

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

Science and technologyEdit

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

Ranks and titlesEdit

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

Other referencesEdit

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

AppendicesEdit

BackgroundEdit

• Like the first season episode TNG episode: "The Naked Now", this novel was - in a manner which could scarcely have been imagined when it was published - rendered historically inaccurate only a few years later, as the Soviet Union no longer existed in 1995.
• 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.

QuotesEdit

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

- Alfred North Whitehead

TimelineEdit

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

External linkEdit

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