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NOVELIZATION
All Good Things...
Attribution
Series:	The Next Generation
Author(s):	Michael Jan Friedman
Publication information
Published:	Hardcover - June 1994
Reprint(s):	Paperback - April 1995
Pages:	248
ISBN:	ISBN 0671521489
EPISODE

Written by:	Ronald D. Moore & Brannon Braga
Directed by:	Winrich Kolbe
Episode no.:	7x25 and 7x26
Production no.:	277 and 278
First aired:	23 May 1994
COMIC ADAPTATION
Cover by Sonia Hillios

Introduction (blurb)

In the last seven years, Captain Picard and the crew of the Starship Enterprise have visited strange new worlds, encountered life in all its galactic diversity, and faced deadlier enemies than man has ever known. They have truly gone where no one has gone before, and in the process made Star Trek: The Next Generation into the most successful syndicated dramatic program of all time. Now, after seven years, their television journey is coming to a close. Pocket Books is proud to present the novelization of the classic final episode.

Seven years ago, Captain Jean-Luc Picard first faced the judgment of the Q Continuum -- a race of beings with godlike powers over time and space who presumed to gauge humanity's fitness to exist in the Galaxy. Seven years ago they suspended judgment, but now their decision has been reached: The human race will be eliminated, not only in the present, but throughout time. Humanity will never have existed at all.

The only chance to save mankind lies with Captain Picard. An old enemy has granted him the power to revisit his life as it was seven years before, and to experience his life twenty-five years in the future. With the help of friendships that span time and space, Picard struggles to defeat the plans of the Q Continuum. But even as he fights to save the human race from total extinction, he has been set up to be the unwitting agent of Mankind's destruction.

In his effort to save humanity, Picard must sacrifice himself and all those he loves... perhaps more than once. And if their sacrifice fails, all Mankind is doomed.

Summary

Picard bounces between three time periods in this episode that features the ever helpful Q. Q sits in judgement of mankind, while providing behind the scene assitance to Picard in allowing him to shift in time. Picard of the future has a sickness that causes him to create a break in time and creates an anti-time rift. The effect of anti-time run backwards so that Picard is responsible for the destruction of the entire human species.

References

Characters

Jean-Luc Picard • William T. Riker • Worf, son of Mogh • Data • Geordi La Forge • Beverly Crusher • Deanna Troi • Natasha Yar • Q • Miles O'Brien • Alyssa Ogawa • Tomalak • Mamoru Nakamura • Guinan • Katherine Pulaski • Keiko O'Brien • Alexander Rozhenko • Lwaxana Troi • Wesley Crusher • Reginald Barclay • The Traveler • Sonya Gomez • Robin Lefler • Mot • Elizabeth Shelby • Sam Lavelle • Ben Prieto • Ben • Calon • Sutcliffe • Mayhew • Munoz • Lee • Collins • Fletcher • Calan • Garvin • Genovese • McBurney • Rippert • Nell Chilton • Gaines • Jessel • Kellogg

Referenced only 

Jack Crusher • Robert DeSoto • Alidar Jarok • K'Ehleyr • Benjamin Maxwell • Ro Laren • Norah Satie • Sito Jaxa

Starships and vehicles

USS Enterprise-D (Galaxy-class) • Galileo • USS Pasteur (Olympic-class) • USS Bozeman (Soyuz-class) • USS Concorde (Freedom-class) • IRW Terix (D'deridex-class) • Negh'Var-class vessels

Locations

Earth • Cambridge University • Earth Station McKinley • France • Romulan Neutral Zone • Devron system • Starbase 23 • Bajor

Species

Bajoran • Betazoid • Human • Klingon • Romulan • Cardassian • Ferengi • Tholian

States and organizations

Klingon Empire • Q Continuum • Romulan Star Empire • Starfleet • United Federation of Planets • Bajoran Resistance

Other

Batlh • Occupation of Bajor

Information

• Other final episode novelizations include "What You Leave Behind" (DS9) and "Endgame" (Voyager). The back of the WYLB novelization describes it as "a powerful novel in the classic tradition of All Good Things..."

Related Stories

• In the alternate future depicted in the DS9 novel miniseries Millennium, Picard develops Irumodic Syndrome.
• The Devron system, introduced in this episode, was again featured in the video game Away Team, where it served as a meeting place for the USS Incursion and a Borg cube.
• In the TNG novel: Death in Winter Captain Picard recalled meeting the Beverly Crusher from the future alternate timeline seen in this episode.

Images

The USS Pasteur (NCC-58925)	Captain Picard with Tasha Yar approaching the newly completely USS Enterprise-D	Prehistoric France	Natasha Yar
The Enterprise in 2395

Connections

• All Good Things... (novel) article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
• All Good Things... article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.