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Summary: A Great Start to a Great Series!
Review: I originally bought the first two Double Helix books sometime when they first came out. I was kind of intimidated by the cover of Infection! Infection is a wonderful, should I say, mystery book. Suspense never stops in this one!
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Summary: Very interesting mystery
Review: I thought that the mystery behind the Virus that the crew faces was very interesting indeed. Don't worry, I won't tell you how it ends...A very good read and should be added to the collection.P.S. For those readers who search out books featuring certain characters (I admit I am one of them) This book has very little to do with Data and Tasha who are featured on the cover. Their part doesn't even begin until the middle of the book and I would estimate is only four pages long.
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Summary: Very interesting mystery
Review: I thought that the mystery behind the Virus that the crew faces was very interesting indeed. Don't worry, I won't tell you how it ends...A very good read and should be added to the collection. P.S. For those readers who search out books featuring certain characters (I admit I am one of them) This book has very little to do with Data and Tasha who are featured on the cover. Their part doesn't even begin until the middle of the book and I would estimate is only four pages long.
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Summary: One of the better TNG novels
Review: Infection keeps the reader entertained with an interesting, though not too original, plotline, a genuinely baffling riddle and a credible resolution. Long time fans of The Next Generation will enjoy this trip back to season 1, to a time when the characters were relatively unacquainted with each other. The quasi-religious sect of the Purity League, which wants to kill everyone who is the result of human/alien mating, makes for some interesting, though obvious social commentary. Infection's treatment of sexual prejudice would have been more compelling if it had included brief discussion of examples of sexual bigottry in Earth's past, including the one that Star Trek itself is and remains unable to confront: homophobia. Star Trek's ongoing refusal to firmly establish that respect for different sexual orientations is part of the Federation's value system continues to compromise its moral credibility. Despite this minor (and for those who are not sensitive to the issue negligible) flaw, Infection is thorougly enjoyable, and wets the appetite for further installments of the series.
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Summary: Most Brilliant!
Review: Infection was a nice change for me. I hardly ever read next generation Books. This was really good. I found that the characters were portrayed in their true light and the story sounded real. A must for any star trek reader!
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Summary: Most Brilliant!
Review: Infection was a nice change for me. I hardly ever read next generation Books. This was really good. I found that the characters were portrayed in their true light and the story sounded real. A must for any star trek reader!
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Summary: Good, but not Great
Review: It was interesting but kinda predictable and it was annoying how the Enterprise characters just happened to be in the right place at the right time and then just happened to notice the plauge culprit and then just happened to suspect him. I think there should have been some real work involved to discover the culprit! Other than that it was a pretty good book, but i hope the second one is better than this one.
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Summary: An average beginning to a potentially great series.
Review: Mr. Betancourt had the unfortunate task of beginning the Double Helix saga, and it doesn't look like he had very much material that he could work with this early in the saga. The primary function of this book is setting up the plague virus plot, and it doesn't succeed in doing much else. It seems as though Mr. Betancourt wrote this book very quickly, not bothering with too many details (although the explanation of "Bill" Riker was a nice detail). The book moves very quickly. The plague virus is introduced, the Enterprise arrives, Dr. Crusher and the rest of the crew take care of the plague virus and the culprit who spread it very efficiently, and there is a very vague look at the mastermind behind the virus. It plays through like a forgettable TNG episode. All in all, it's an average beginning to the Double Helix saga.
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Summary: Quite Intriguing
Review: Mr. Betancourt has written a fine Star Trek novel, a phenomena hard to come by as of late. I certainly was interested from the very beginning, and remained so until the very last page. This is the mark of a very good book. Now I want to read the rest of the series and see what happens! Trust me - this book is worth your time.
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Summary: A disappointing start
Review: Overall, this book seems a rather disappointing start to the promising Double Helix series (any series that features novels by Diane Carey and Peter David has to be a good thing in my mind). Part of it may be that it tries too hard to capture the feel of the first season of the show and it doesn't. Having people feel awkward and maybe not get along doesn't seem to really work here. Also, the characters are given each a little chapter or so of development and it never seems to come together as a cohesive novel. Yes, there's a virus plotline in there somewhere, but there are several plotthreads that come into it an a rather unsatisfying finish. I'm willing to give this one a bit more credit that I normally would as it may be constrained as being set-up for the entire Double Helix saga. Hopefully when I finish the last book I'll look back and realize what the author was trying to do here and my evaluation will change. As for now, it's middle of the road for Trek fiction...
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