title: Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Space Between
author:  David Tischman 
description: "The <i>Reservoir Dogs</i>-esque opening line from Riker, when he tells Worf, Lets getto work, had me snared for the rest of this issue. The dialogue is immaculatelyattuned to the characters, and the grandly one-upped deus ex machina by the villainat the end had me belting out laughs of appreciation..." <i>Wizard Magazine</i>
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  ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  David Mack performs his own stunts.  
  Learn more at his website:  
  [www.davidmack.pro](http://www.davidmack.pro)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  My thanks to my wife, Kara, for her support and patience. I could not have
  done this
  
  
  without her.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  I also wish to offer my sincere gratitude to writer-producer René Echevarria,
  whose
  
  
  teleplay for the third-season Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “The
  Offspring” served as the direct inspiration and springboard for this
  
  
  novel’s prologue and epilogue, and to acknowledge the work of writer-producer
  Jerome
  
  
  Bixby, whose third-season Star Trek episode “Requiem for Methuselah” gave us
  the character of the Immortal. A tip of
  
  
  the hat also goes out to Alan Dean Foster and Harold Livingston, the writers
  of Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), from which I borrowed the concept of
  the Machine Race.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Heartfelt thanks also go out to author Christopher L. Bennett (who served as
  my sounding
  
  
  board a