Infection (novel)
Deanna's life is threatened by a mysterious plague!

Infection is a Pocket TNG novel – #51 in the numbered series, and the first novel in the Double Helix miniseries – written by John Gregory Betancourt. Published by Pocket Books, it was first released in .

Summary 
From the book jacket
Like the twisted strands of mutant chromosomes, an insidious alien conspiracy winds its way through the entire Alpha Quadrant, just as it stretches across several years of Starfleet history – beginning near the very start of Captain Picard's command of the Starship Enterprise!

It is only the first year of the U.S.S. Enterprise-D's ongoing mission when a virulent epidemic strikes the populace of Archaria III, endangering the lives of thousands and provoking acts of mob violence against those believed responsible for the spread of the disease. While Data and Natasha Yar team up to uncover the true origins of the virus, Dr. Crusher finds the implacable sickness resists all her efforts to find a cure. The desperate quest for a cure becomes even more urgent when Deanna Troi succumbs to the dreaded plague… again and again.

Background information 
 An extract from this novel appeared in .

Characters 
Jean-Luc Picard
William T. Riker
Data
Worf
Natasha Yar
Geordi La Forge
Deanna Troi
Beverly Crusher
Miles O'Brien
Cherbach  Ensign.
Barrans  Ensign.
Anders
Smith  Ensign.
Ian McCloud
Icolah
Schultz
Wrenn
Detek
Clarke  Ensign.
T'pona  Ensign.
Tr'grxl-gn'ta
Crane  Ensign.
Habbib  Ensign.
Charles Ehrhart  Ensign.

References

External link 
 

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