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Summary: Another wacky adventure
Review: This story has many different moiving parts--a bit more than most STNG novels. The author attempts to tie everything together at the end but falls just short of being a really neat story. I wouldn't read it again but find myself no worse off for reading it once.
Rating:
Summary: Another wacky adventure
Review: This story has many different moiving parts--a bit more than most STNG novels. The author attempts to tie everything together at the end but falls just short of being a really neat story. I wouldn't read it again but find myself no worse off for reading it once.
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Summary: Improper thinking will be punished
Review: When I read this NG novel I expected another run of the mill story with the politically correct message. I was very surprised and wrong about my assesment by the back cover. In this one any creativity or wrong thinking is fatal. A lost starship crashes on this planet only for it's captain to survive. His mind was wiped of any reference to Starfleet and his former life. While I know the major characters would not meet their demise....it's was very exciting to see how Picard escaped the mind wipe intact. The scenes with the all knowing "one eye" cameras/assault units were the best. Especially when Geordi and Wes had to figure out how they worked. It would have played well as a television episode. A lot of the novels are very often superior to the TV scripts and this was one of them.
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Summary: This book is boring.
Review: Where is this book going? Somehow Picard and others get on a planet, that is in a midst of a war. Then some of them are taken prisoner. Dr. Pulaski does make an appearence in this book, but she is only medicore, not the quick witted doctor that we met in the series. This book is boring and confusing, I do not recommend it. Anyways, what does Gulliver's Fugitives mean, I never understood that.
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Summary: Seriously flawed.
Review: Which is a shame, because the basic idea had potential: Star Trek meets Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451". And the writing wasn't completely hopeless; as the story progressed, I did find myself caring what happened next, and moved by the fate of the characters. But there were too many flaws for a high rating; the entire subplot of Deanna Troi's visions/hallucinations was superfluous and pointless, and the concept that the planetary culture that the Enterprise was in conflict with could have provided as much of a challenge as they did required too much supension of disbelief for my taste. Not the worst Star Trek book I've ever read by a long shot, but definitely on the weak end of the scale.
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Summary: Not quite literature
Review: While I thought the 1984-ish culture was an interesting (and impossible) one, the story gets bogged down in psychadelics as Troi and others hallucinate mythological creatures. The surprise at the end makes for a good (and again, highly unlikely) climax, and the supporting characters are fun, if superfluous. A good little romp, but you'll have to suspend disbelief a little more than usual.
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