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"They want you to kill them." - Rated
Titan Books continue their series of novels based on Star Trek: The Next Generation with #01: Ghost Ship by Diane Carey.
The events of the story take place just after the events of `Where No One Has Gone Before' so it is set very early on in the series.
Troi experiences some truly vivid nightmares of men on a military vessel who are attacked and `killed' by an alien life form. Soon after, the Enterprise encounters a strange energy field in space which attacks them and drains the power reserves to critical levels. Troi keeps seeing images from the past of sailors, military ships and certain men in particular. As they investigate what is happening to her, Riker sees a man in the corridor, dressed in old style military clothing and screaming silently at him.
The crew soon discover that what they are seeing are the souls of life forms that have `gone missing' over the last three centuries and are now trapped in some sort of anomaly. Troi is getting repeated images of Captain Arkady Rekhov, the Russian commander of an aircraft carrier which disappeared in 1995!
With both Data and Troi trying to make contact before the entity absorbs the souls of the crew from the Enterprise, time is running out.
Diane Carey is usually an excellent writer and always brings good characterisation in all her stories but unfortunately, this novel is probably her weakest to date. This is not primarily her fault, she is only writing the characters as they had been portrayed and written in the first few episodes of the show.
The crew are a surly, argumentative lot, prone to emotional outbursts and irrational snapping. Reading the novel any time after viewing season three of the show, the dialogue jars and you feel that the characters would not behave like that at all. It is very much grounded in season one and as such, is a bit of an anachronism.
The story itself moves along at a fair pace and there is a battle with the entity in the middle to liven things up but it never really makes you desperate to read the next chapter and find out what happens next. The final resolution reads very much like the mediocre scripts that dominated the shows first season and there is no twist or surprise which makes it all very predictable.
Humourous note: the artist who did the cover image tried to paint and alien ship but those of us with a sharp eye will easily recognise it as another famous starship - only painted upside down :)
Not a bad book but after the lacklustre `Encounter At Farpoint' it's not an auspicious start either. Star rating is just for Diane Carey as she's a good writer, no matter what she's been handed.
great - Rated
Set during series 1 of the next generation, this is the story of how the enterprise encounters a strange life form capable of capturing other life forms!! This is one of the better storys set in the early series, Diane Carey writes it wondefully and it's something that could be read again and again.
A good read - Rated
This book is quite a good read, although nowhere near the excellent level of Peter David's "Imzadi" and "Q Squared". If you're a fan of TNG, you'll want to read all the books in the series.
