There she witnesses her grandma whipping up miracle cures with the local produce, and before she knows it she’s on her way to med school. Still in historical mode, Friedman shows us a young Beverly Howard, living on Arvada III.
We can assume from there he and his comrades go about the thankless task of retro-fitting Tom Hardy into Picard’s persona. Since the good old method of plucking a hair from a hairbrush really wasn’t an option when acquiring a sample of Jean-Luc Picard’s DNA, the waiter pinches his champagne flute instead.
The book opens with an intriguing scene featuring a Romulan spy, posing as a waiter, attempting to steal a small sample of Picard’s DNA. TNG, DS9, VOY, the spinoff Titan and a few others would now share a common literary timeline and universe.Īt this point the Star Trek book writers were given a lot more freedom then they had in the past. In regards to the shared continutiy amongst the relaunch novels, supposedly, this new fangled “relaunch” timeline would work as a single continuity because Simon & Schuster organized a writers room with a managing editor who acted like a showrunner. However the story would eventually pivot towards a Romulan heavy cast, with the Picard/Crusher plot humming away in the background. Initially Friedman hadn’t necessarily thought to directly involve the Romulans or set the book in amongst the political and social fallout from Nemesis. It seems they wanted to get that ambiguoty out of the way, so other events could then proceed. An interview with Friedman revealed that managing editor Margaret Clark came to him and stated that the story was to wrap up the Picard and Beverly relationship once and for all.
Given his extensive work with a young Picard (as well quite a few Picard focused TNG books), Friedman must have seemed like a safe pair of hands to kick off the “relaunch” book phase. This was his 37th and final Star Trek book. Death In Winter was originally published in 2005 (hardback) and then paperback in 2007. Can author Michael Jan Friedman maneuver the Star Trek TNG books into this new era?īefore writing Death In Winter, author Michael Jan Friedman had just wrapped up his 6th Stargazer book, a spinoff book series focusing on a young Jean Luc Picard aboard his previous ship, the Stargazer. DNA thieves, Beverly Crusher’s maiden name and a few guest appearances from the USS Stargazer.
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