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Summary: Could there be love in the air.
Review: Counselor Troi and Lt. Worf working together? Sure they do it everyday, but not like this. This alone could have set the stage for their relationship in All Good Things. Talk about things that make you go Hmm
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Summary: Really Impressed with Michael's Dorn's Audio Reading!
Review: I listened to the audio cassette recording of John Vornholt's book and I enjoyed it and was really impressed with Michael Dorn's audio reading, I have listened to many audio recordings in many dfferent generes, Scince Fiction, Romance, Classic Literature, mystery and Supsense etc, but out of all of the ones that I have listened to I was most impressed with his reading, as usual he was great as Worf the character he played but he did a great job with all the other voices too, I especially liked his voice for Emil Costa, I also liked the sound effects they used in this audio and though maybe it wasn't the most challenging mystery I really did enjoy it and I would reccomend this audio cassette recording to any fan of Michael Dorn! This is a keeper!
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Summary: It had the potential
Review: I read the back cover and was intrigued to know more, but was soon disappointed. Although it says that Lt. Worf and Counselor Troi are doing the investigating, but the extremely annoying Wesley Crusher is brought in to the picture half way through the book and manages to screw up the rest of the story. Not to mention the ending was very predictable. Not at all like previous books by Vornholt. I recommend Genesis Wave, if you want something good by this author.
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Summary: It had the potential
Review: I read the back cover and was intrigued to know more, but was soon disappointed. Although it says that Lt. Worf and Counselor Troi are doing the investigating, but the extremely annoying Wesley Crusher is brought in to the picture half way through the book and manages to screw up the rest of the story. Not to mention the ending was very predictable. Not at all like previous books by Vornholt. I recommend Genesis Wave, if you want something good by this author.
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Summary: A poor job by Vornholt
Review: I would say that this story is weak, a surprise from Vornholt. His work is usually much better than this, as he is one of my favorite ST authors. War Drums #23 was great! This story is also poorly read by Michael Dorn. Very predicatble story and nothing exciting to keep those pages turning. I'd pass on this one folks!
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Summary: Classic murder mystery.
Review: In this book, although the characterizations are not too far off the mark from those established for the characters, much is sacrificed in order to fit a classic murder mystery plot. One must accept, for instance, that it is possible to fire a phaser on board the Enterprise without the computer being immediately aware of the occurrence, and signalling security; that it is, in fact, possible for a member of the ship's complement to replicate a loaded phaser without clearance or any record of the transaction, that there is no high-tech way to establish the identity of the person who fired the phaser, or even whether a particular phaser was the one fired at a particular time, and many other very dubious propositions.Still, the book is well-written, and if you enjoy detective and mystery fiction as well as Star Trek-style space opera, it should provide an enjoyable read. It uses a very Agatha Christie-esque method of maintaining suspense and uncertainty as to the question of "whodunnit" by making almost all of the non-regular characters behave suspiciously at one point or another. Not really my style, but well done if you like that sort of thing.
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Summary: Who Killed All the Lawyers?
Review: Nobody should expect 24th century jurisprudence to be the same as that in the early 21st, but the "courtroom drama" of Contamination is a farce. Vornholt tries to excuse an apparent ignorance of the law by saying that Federation law is "Solomon-like" - simple and without mumbo-jumbo. Fair enough. But then he describes procedures that no rational law-maker would have tolerated: 1. Data as defense lawyer. Data represents the accused, even though once the trial is concluded he will have to testify as a victim against the accused for another (although related) crime. Any modern attorney who participated in such a conflict of interest would be disbarred. Well, okay, this is *Data*, so maybe we can forgive this. But not: 2. Worf as prosecutor. Where's the JAG corp when you need it? As lead investigator, Worf has no business acting as prosecutor; he is a fact witness and a lawyer may not act as both counsel and witness; he is supposed to be a disinterested advocate. 3. Compelling defendant to testify. One would have thought that the right to not be compelled to testify would be sacrosanct in the enlightened Federation, yet the judge twice calls the defendant to the stand, once at Worf's prompting. (Worf: I'd like to know where he got the phaser. Judge: Yeah, me, too. Take the stand!) 4. Wesley giving his opinion on the defendant's guilt. A witness is not, and should not be, allowed to opine on the ultimate issue in a case. That is for the fact-finder (judge or jury) alone. Wesley's opinion is completely irrelevant and would never have seen the light of day in a true courtroom (and not just because it's Wesley, either!). And so on. In "Measure of a Man" we were told that Riker and Picard had to act as attorneys solely because there were none around; it was an emergency measure only. Here, we are given no such excuse. Modern Navy ships have a JAG officer on board; why doesn't the Enterprise? And yet, despite all of that, I found Contamination to be an enjoyable read. Nothing gripping or moving, but a good read to help while away a few hours. Exactly what one should expect from a Star Trek novel.
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Summary: Characters written well...but the mystery is weak
Review: Spoiler Alert........ All the characters act as they would in the series. However the mystery was weak. Why? It's the basic disgruntled scientist story. A discovery is stolen from a scientist and another gets all the fame. The career actual person who made the discovery is a mess. The scientist sues unsuccessfully. So their offspring resorts to a drastic solution. I thought in the 24th century humans were more advanced? Well for the sake of a good story you have to forget that. I never bought the perfect view of humanity from Roddenberry. The story would have been better had the suspect not been so obvious. If she was someone unrelated to the circle of scientists on the Enterprise it might have been more believable. We see Worf as a prosecutor in this one. Shades of his relative in Star Trek 6.
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Summary: Characters written well...but the mystery is weak
Review: Spoiler Alert........ All the characters act as they would in the series. However the mystery was weak. Why? It's the basic disgruntled scientist story. A discovery is stolen from a scientist and another gets all the fame. The career actual person who made the discovery is a mess. The scientist sues unsuccessfully. So their offspring resorts to a drastic solution. I thought in the 24th century humans were more advanced? Well for the sake of a good story you have to forget that. I never bought the perfect view of humanity from Roddenberry. The story would have been better had the suspect not been so obvious. If she was someone unrelated to the circle of scientists on the Enterprise it might have been more believable. We see Worf as a prosecutor in this one. Shades of his relative in Star Trek 6.
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Summary: ST-TNG: Contamination
Review: Star Trek - The Next Generation: Contamination written by John Vornholt is for all intents and purposes is a murder-mystery that occurs on the Starship Enterprise. This is a classic Worf and Deanna Troi book as Captain Jean-Luc Picard assigns Worf to investigate a murder on the Enterprise of a prominant research scientist, Lynn Costa. As the book goes into detail, we the reader get a better look into the ship's science labs and we are exposed to betrayal, madness and down right deceit as Worf investigates. We get to see Worf's investigative skills emerge as all parties are guilty until a confession is beaten out of them... but of course Captain Picard wants Worf to use more refined skills and we get to see how good Worf can be. I enjoyed this book, but I must say, that the true murderer was revealed too early on in the book and it made for an anticlimatic ending. Too bad the author couldn't of hidden the identiy for a little while longer. Other than that the book was a very good read and it warrants a 5 stars for the mystery, intrigue, and for excellent charter developmet of Worf.
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