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Star Trek (1991), Mass Market Paperback
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The "U.S.S. EnterpriseTM is stunned when famed scientist Lynn Costa is murdered in one of the ship's science labs. She and her husband Emil were known as science's greatest ongoing collaboration and, together had received the Federation's highest honors for their achievements in scientific research. Determined to see the culprit brought to justice, Captain Picard assigns Lt. Worf and Counselor Deanna Troi to the case. Their routine investigation of the ship's science lab soon reveals a dangerous web of deceit, betrayal, and madness. Now, Worf and Troi find themselves struggling against a ruthless assassin set on revenge, for whom murder is only the beginning.
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English
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LibraryThing member DanieXJ
I think that this is only the second Star Trek The Next Generation novel that John Vornholt wrote, and only the 16th STTNG novels and that is very obvious when I read the book.
At the beginning of the series (early 90s, Contamination was published in '91). Most of the writers hadn't solidified how
I do have to say that all the clean room, contaminate stuff was interesting, though again, it was very rooted in the twentieth century, not the twenty third.
For the most part it was an okay mystery. I'm probably just too used to mysteries written by mystery authors who weave much more intricate plots. Still, even though it was a simply, straightforward mystery, I wasn't totally sure what the final answer was until it was revealed.
It was a solid Star Trek novel, but not Vornholt's best offering, he got better as he wrote more of them for sure. Oh, but, hey, it had Wesley Crusher in it, and in a prominent role too, and, that doesn't seem to happen a ton in the books, so that's a positive in my mind.
At the beginning of the series (early 90s, Contamination was published in '91). Most of the writers hadn't solidified how
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to write the futuristic tech yet and so most of the technospeak leans towards the most futuristic science of the time, like Electron Microscopes, semiconductor research and tanks, pumps, and piping.I do have to say that all the clean room, contaminate stuff was interesting, though again, it was very rooted in the twentieth century, not the twenty third.
For the most part it was an okay mystery. I'm probably just too used to mysteries written by mystery authors who weave much more intricate plots. Still, even though it was a simply, straightforward mystery, I wasn't totally sure what the final answer was until it was revealed.
It was a solid Star Trek novel, but not Vornholt's best offering, he got better as he wrote more of them for sure. Oh, but, hey, it had Wesley Crusher in it, and in a prominent role too, and, that doesn't seem to happen a ton in the books, so that's a positive in my mind.
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LibraryThing member Cheryl_in_CC_NV
All I remember is that this is one of the ones I thought good enough to save and pass on to my kids, should they choose to read the series.