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Summary: Disappointing
Review: This book dangles the possiblity of completely explaining Data's origin, including why there are no other androids made. Instead, it confuses things further by entangling him in complex plot with three different factions fighting over a new android. There is just too much that you have to accept on faith in this story. E.g. that Data would have the authority to shut down an entire planet's computer network, or that life pods would have warp drives, or that two people could infiltrate changeling-paranoid Starfleet that easily. People keep popping out of the woodwork and explaining what's going on in huge expository chunks. We also get the Trek cliche of a new crewmember a regular character falls in love with, but must leave at the end of the story. It could also do with being at least 20 per cent shorter to speed up the pace and get rid of extraneous stuff. Data deserves a better story than this. And for that matter, what's the story behind Mudd's androids?
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Summary: The one of the best Trek books!
Review: This book introduced a plot that tied a few lose ends to some of the original series episodes. It seemed to get a little boring in the middle, but there's a lot of action. You get to see Data do things he normally wouldn't do (like falling in love or meeting other androids, even if they were paranoid). It also has parts in it about Dr. Noonien Soong, which fit into the story perfectly. It's a must for a TNG fan. I've read it four times.
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Summary: Fun Read for TNG Fans
Review: This is one of the better Star Trek books. The author tried really hard (perhaps too hard!) to pull together lots of plot lines from TOS and TNG, and succeeded for the most part. It's readable and enjoyable.
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Summary: Wow! Great story!
Review: This is the best Next Generation paperback I've read in years! I couldn't put it down. As good as any written by Peter David or John Vornholt. Great heart as well as believable action, all very well rolled into a great story! Terrific, Mr. Lang...more please?
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Summary: entertaining
Review: This Star Trek book is similar to most of the others I have read. It was an easy read and it kept my interest throughout.
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Summary: STNG - Immortal Coil
Review: Whoa Nellie, what a read! Get yourself a comfortable seat, something to drink and fasten your seat belts, this is a Sci-Fi mystery, action backed, love story and an intrepid adventure. This is a single volume story the way Trek should be written, not multi-books. A story that starts seventy years back on the planet Exo III in this genre's time frame. Three men looking at what Starfleet doesn't want anyone to know about. A planet now on the ebb of its life with a mystry of the "Old ones." Ira Graves, Noonien Soong, and Dr. Emil Vaslovik find an astonishing discovery. Something only rumors and heresay eluded to, but now was born to fact. A laboratory dedicated to the copying of androids with the insertion of humanoid conscience. After this discovery, the three men make a hasty exit after finding out they awoke the resident androids after thousands of years of rest, and leaving an android on the duplication/repair table. We next go to the mystery of a lab in the Daystorn Institute Annex on Galor IV and find the the lab is destroyed, one man injured and in a coma, another "murdered" and an android pinned under the building support. The work of Maddox, the man in the coma, Barclay and Dr. Vaslovik a break through in holotronic technology. Ah, but the game is afoot. Data's name is spelled out on the floor in blood and now enters Jean-Luc Picard and the Enterprise to solve this misdirection of guile. Data and the new security member Rhea McAdams are teamed up to solve this cunning mystery. This book is captivating and you won't want to put it down. We have good androids, bad ones and a man of immortality who transcends the ages. There are twists and turns and when we find
out, we are surprised to say the least. This is a very well written story with great character development... even the love story between Rhea and Data, which carries throughout the book is finely crafted. There are references to Capt. Kirk and Dr. McCoy and even old M-5 makes a come back of sorts. Read this and enjoy Trek at its best...I did and I was fascinated.
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