QinLaw, Peter David
QinLaw, Peter David
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Q-in-Law

Author: Peter David

Narrator: Majel Barrett, John de Lancie

Abridged: 1 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/01/1992


Synopsis

A celebration of love between two powerful rival families is cut short when the all powerful being called Q arrives and challenges the very concept of love.

When two powerful rival families of the spacefaring merchant race called the Tizarin are to be joined through marriage, the U.S.S. Enterprise is chosen as the site for the wedding. Though Captain Picard is pleased by the happy duty, his pleasure is cut short by the arrival of the Federation delegate from Betazed: Lwaxana Troi—the mother of ship's counsellor, Deanna Troi.

Despite Lwaxana Troi's romantic overtures toward the captain, the celebration seems to go smoothly until the situation is further complicated by the arrival of the notorious and all powerful being called Q—who has come to examine and challenge the human concept of love. Suddenly, the festivities are in turmoil, the powerful Tizarin families are on the verge of war, and Lwaxana Troi is determined to teach Q a lesson in love that he will never forget...

About Peter David

Peter David is a prolific writer whose career, and continued popularity, spans more than twenty-five years. He has worked in every conceivable media—television, film, books (fiction, nonfiction, and audio), short stories, and comic books—and acquired followings in all of them.

About John de Lancie

John de Lancie brought Q to life in the very first episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation and has since appeared as Q in numerous episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Star Trek: Voyager®. In addition, he has starred on such series as Legend and Days of our Lives. He has also collaborated with author Peter David on Q's recent "autobiography", I, Q.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Louie the Mustache on October 22, 2023

Q-In-Law by Peter David is a Star Trek: The Next Generation Novel #18. Full disclosure: I love Peter David as a writer, but I loathe Q as a villain. Give me Klingons, and Romulans, or even the Borg, but in this novel, there is neither hide nor hair of those races. On the other hand, the Tizarin are......more

Goodreads review by Jamie on February 09, 2020

What a blast! Q comes to the Enterprise to "examine" the human concept of love, while it's hosting a wedding from two rival alien factions. While there Q meets his match in Lwaxana Troi, perhaps the only other being in all the galaxy as self-righteous as himself. Conflict and comedy ensue. Superb au......more

Goodreads review by Jerry on May 31, 2024

I haven't really watched the Star Trek shows, but, from what I've read about him, Q is a quite interesting character. Q-in-Law makes for good reading, but only if you're familiar with the character of Q. Those who are unfamiliar with that one-letter being should at least read The Q Continuum trilogy......more

Goodreads review by Octavia on April 11, 2021

I'm reading through the numbered TNG novels this year as part of a reading challenge to myself. (God only knows why, but the beginning of a year sees me grabbing at lists of random reading material in the hope of I don't know what.) This is, I believe, #18 in the series, and it's been an interesting......more

Goodreads review by Wayne on January 28, 2025

This is one of the only Star Trek books that had me laughing continuously once you got into the story arc. Anyone who has watched Star Trek Next Gen or Deep Space 9 knows who Lwaxanna Troi is and who Q is. Picture the two of them together with their unique personalities and abilities and you have a......more