Douglas Adams is the author of The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy. This is a great book certainly but it's not one I expected to find a reference to in a Star Trek book. Yes in this story the crew of the USS da Vinci discover an infinity improbability drive.
Well not quite. In this they call it an Uncertainty Drive. (p590) Strange things start to happen to crew such as - "The lift doors opened and...a kangaroo hopped onto the bridge..." (609) This is the best story in the Grand Designs collection. As I said in a previous post the other stories were meh. They had some interesting parts but on the whole they weren't so good. Although I enjoyed Sargasso Sector I feel it is misplaced in the Star Trek universe. The science in Star Trek has never exactly been great but in universe it is, theoretically, supposed to make sense. As this is not a holodeck story there is no real justification for the strange goings on. Perhaps this is just me being pernickety.
Nevertheless this was a good story and made some interesting statements about probability.
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