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Plot Summary of All Good Things...
"Picard travels back and forth in time in order to help solve the mystery (created by Q) as to how the end of the human race will come about. In the meantime, he reunites new friends and family, and Troi and Worf embark on a bit of a romance."
Portia, Resident Scholar



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Plot

Composition of Book
Descript. of chases or violence - 10%
planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 40%
Descript. of society, phenomena (tech), places - 10%




Tone of book - very upbeat
FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION? - science fiction story
Time Travel: - into past and future equally
Tech./$$$/Info hunt Yes
Stealing/recovering/destroying - info about lifeform(s)/society/phenomena
Kind of series - Star Trek
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Time Travel story? Yes
Family relations Yes
Star Trek or Star Wars book? Yes

Main Character
Identity: - Male
Profession/status: - explorer
Age: - 60's-90's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
How sensitive is this character? - middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - average physique

Main Adversary
Identity: - magical being
Age: - long-lived adults
Profession/status: - mastermind
Has magical powers? Yes
Eccentric: Yes
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - a moderate amount
Sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence - Genius (really!)
Physique - average physique

Setting
Takes place on Earth? Yes
Takes place in spaceship? Yes

Style
Person? - rotating 1st
Accounts of torture and death? - no torture/death
scientific jargon? (SF only) - a moderate amount of scientific explanation
How much dialogue? - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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