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Mervi2012
Posted 2017-05-11 10:17 AM (#15709 - in reply to #14868)
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I finished the six book Star Trek: the Next Generation series "Double Helix". They were different from what I expected because most of the books barely had any Next Gen characters at all. The third book, "Red Sector" was actually quite well written but the main character was a new, original guy, Ensign Eric Styles who is captured by a hostile race during his first serious mission. Spock and McCoy are called in to rescue him.

The next book "Quarantine" didn't have any of the regular TNG cast. Instead, it focused on Thomas Riker, who is Will Riker's "twin" through a transporter accident. Thomas and a small Marqui crew (Chakotay, B'Elanna Torres, and Tuvok) try to help a planet on the Demilitarized Zone. The planet is suffering from a more virulent version of the previous plague.

In "Double or Nothing" William Riker and the crew of Excalibur (from Peter David's New Frontier books) are trying to find a secret Romulan base outside Federation space. Meanwhile, Excalibur's captain Mac Calhoun is sent undercover to try to find who is behing the recurring disease.

In the final book, "First Virtue" we're shown how the conflict started years before the TNG era. Picard and the crew of Stargazer try to stop two interstellar societies from going to war.

The books were interesting and some of them better written than I expected. Unfortunately, they didn't give me TNG fix I was looking for, so I'm going to read some more TNG books at some point. Next, however, I'll try a book which was described as "three musketeers with dragons", Pierre Paval's Cardinal's Swords.

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