Following the six-issue limited series, TNG: Beginnings, DC launched its second, longer Star Trek run with even more adventures featuring Picard and his crew. The series kicks off with the Enterprise-D arriving on the planet Raimon where Captain Picard is invited to take part in an important celebration. Riker is suspicious, though, fearing that his captain might be walking into a trap. Set between the second and the third season of The Next Generation, these stories feature all the favorite characters from the TV show while also introducing crew members unique to the comics.
Michael Jan Friedman is an author of more than seventy books of fiction and nonfiction, half of which are in the Star Trek universe. Eleven of his titles have appeared on the New York Times Best Seller list. Friedman has also written for network and cable television and radio, and scripted nearly 200 comic books, including his original DC superhero series, the Darkstars.
This was OK. You can definitely tell that DC didn't really know what to do with the characters and the universe. Everyone is really jacked - which is funny because Picard looks like a bodybuilder. Somehow data can feel, and Troy can feel him having feelings, and there is a married couple on the bridge that keeps bickering. Why? Despite this, the stories weren't bad.