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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: 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: 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: 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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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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Summary: STNG #16 Contamination - Murder on the Enterprise!
Review: Star Trek The Next Generation #16 Contamination is John Vornholt's second Star Trek novel and though it's not his best work in the Star Trek genre, it's still a pretty good book and well worth the time to read! Once you get used to his writing style, you will find it be fairly fluid, in his "own" way. Of interest in this particular novel is the premise of murder on the Enterprise, something of which is not supposed to happen in the twenty fourth century which lends heavily to the shock factor among the Captain and crew. John Vornholt deals with the issue fairly well throughout the book, delivering another good Star Trek novel. The premise: The crew of the Enterprise is quite shocked to find that a famous scientist named Lynn Costa who was visiting the ship is murdered. Captain Picard must see justice done so he assigns the task of discovering the murderer to Lieutenant Worf and Counselor Deanna Troi. Our erstwhile heroes soon find themselves embroiled in a web of deceit and betrayal all while an assassin is aboard the Enterprise... I highly recommend this novel to any and all Star Trek fiction fans who are interested in reading a fairly well written Star Trek story by one of Star Trek's top ten authors. {ssintrepid}
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Summary: A great murder mystery-action book.
Review: The first half of this book is a murder mystery. Worf and Troi are trying to find the killer and getting nowhere. It might irritate them, but it is very well plotted and written and entertaining for us. Then the action starts: more murders, attempted murders, and a hijacking. Then we go to a trial, which of course has the wrong person accused. Worf finally figures it all out, and gets kidnapped. More action ensues. The action and character interaction and the trial are all very well done and immensely entertaining. This is one of my favourites in the Next Generation books.
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Summary: What happens when scientists get greedy with their projects
Review: This book describes the activities of a group of scientists involved in microbiological research aboard the Enterprise. What's intriguing is a murder mystery with several elements: another Betazoid aboard the Enterprise besides Troi; a disagreement about a scientific discovery that the Betazoid wants to sell to a higher bidder;an angry young woman seeking revenge; a revisitation from the Kreel (from "Strike Zone"); murder and a trial with Worf as a prosecutor. In short, a nice novel you can absorb on a plane to California. Here's a neat tie-in to another STTNG novel: If readers wonder about why the transporter complained of infection in "The Last Stand," the answer is that the transporter was fitted with the biofilter that was invented by a "Contamination" character!
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