I love Star Trek, although I tend to read more than watch these days. I've had this book for a while, but am just getting round to registering it. Can't wait to read it.

I never expect literary gold from TV tie-in novels and this one was no exception - a bit of entertainment that at least kept the characterisation pretty much on point. My only real issue with this is that the crew of the Enterprise really didn't do much - got kidnapped, tortured and had things happening to them, but you can't say that they did ANYTHING to get themselves out of trouble. With the exception of Geordi and the rest of the Engineers - they did work on solving the problem, but not enough time was spent with them. However, I don't remember Troi being quite such a wet blanket in the TV show.

I can't say that I found the ending hugely satisfactory - I'm not sure I followed the explanations as to WHY the planet was so dead against the imagination, and the whole ambassador / film thing didn't seem to make a lot of sense. But, despite the moans, I did like it enough to keep reading and I did LOVE Data's poetry.

Chosen from the sci-fi bookbox.