Gemworld, Book One

An artificial world battles a natural disaster!
Gemworld, Book One is a Pocket TNG novel – #58 in the numbered series, and the first novel in the Gemworld duology – written by John Vornholt. Published by Pocket Books, it was first released in .
== Summary ==
;From the book jacket
:Dazzling to behold, Gemworld is one of the wonders of the Federation: an artificial world composed entirely of crystal, its atmosphere held in place by a sophisticated network of force fields. Home to a half dozen different sentient races, this singular world is a low-gravity playpen of mammoth spires, endless fractal staircases, gemstone arcs, and dazzling prisms, all carefully nurtured by the planet's many inhabitants – until now.
:Lieutenant Melora Pazlar, who previously served on Deep Space Nine, is currently stationed aboard the Starship where an urgent telepathic summons alerts her to the danger threatening her homeworld.
:The crystals that once sheltered her people, and several other alien species, are now growing at a vastly accelerated and uncontrollable rate, wreaking havoc throughout the planet. Captain Picard orders the Enterprise on a rescue mission to Gemworld, but they arrive to find a world in chaos – and an unexpected menace that traps the crew of the Enterprise along with the fragile civilization they hoped to save!
== Background information ==
* This novel contained Chapter Seven of the serialized novel Starfleet: Year One.
* An extract from this novel appeared in .
== Characters ==
; Jean-Luc Picard
; Data
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; Reginald Barclay
:Although this novel depicts Barclay as still being a member of the Enterprise crew in 2375, , set a year later, would establish him having been on Earth for almost two years.
; Deanna Troi
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