The Genesis Wave, Book Three
They thought the menace was over. They were wrong.

The Genesis Wave, Book Three is a Pocket TNG novel – the third novel in The Genesis Wave series – written by John Vornholt. Published by Pocket Books, it was first released in hardback in .

Summary 
From the book jacket
The fearsome progeny of forbidden technology, the Genesis Wave swept across the Alpha Quadrant, creating new life at the expense of everything that lay in its path. Only through the valiant efforts of Captain Picard and his crew was the Wave halted, and the cataclysmic threat to the Federation averted. Or so it seemed.

In the harrowing aftermath of the crisis, the Genesis Device falls into the hands of a dangerous religious zealot. But that disaster may pale beside an even more dire emergency, as Data develops a disturbing theory regarding the full cosmic consequences of the Genesis Effect: Can life truly be created from nothing, or must the entire galaxy pay a terrible price for what Genesis has wrought?

Background information 
 Author John Vornholt compared the relationship between this novel and the previous two with that between  and , calling it "a sequel dealing with putting the genie back in the bottle". ()
 The Science Fiction Book Club released a special edition of the hardback in .
 The audiobook version was abridged by George Truett.

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Characters 
Jean-Luc Picard
Data

Teska previously featured in Vornholt's Pocket TOS novel, Mind Meld.

References 
; Genesis Project

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