Rating: 
Summary: Thankfully, I got it on the bargain pyramid...
Review: This was, well, awful.It seems like the author bit off more than she could chew. She drew together plots with Captain Bateman and his crew (from the TNG Episode "Cause and Effect,"), brought in the brand new Enterprise-E, tied in Scotty, the Gul that tortured Picard in "Chain of Command,", some previous-century Klingons, and - oh yes - a holodeck recreation of Kirk. And tribbles. The result is an alarmingly out-of-character mash of crossovers that leaves you feeling like you're reading a comedy, not a science fiction novel. The only thing that redeemed this book at all to me was the plight of Captain Bateman and his crew, stranded far ahead of their own timeline. They were interesting. The rest was not. Skip this one, unless you'd like to know more about the crew of the USS Bozeman. But go to a library.
Rating:
Summary: Has its moments, but falls short...
Review: When I started reading this book I thought to myself, "wow, I actually like this book." But soon after, I decided it wasn't as good as I thought it was.
It has some excellent moments, namely, Riker's attitude toward Bateson and his "old style" of thinking, and Picard's identity crisis is a real plus.
I don't think it was very realistic to have given Morgan Bateson, a man from ninety years in the past (oh wait, ninety- THREE!), command of the new Enterprise, (granted, they WOULD try to promote Picard to admiral, so I'm not complaining about that), but I think command would most certainly have gone to someone who knew how the current world worked... and the way Bateson botched the Klingon encounter, it was obvious he didn't know what he was doing. I was going to give it 3 stars (it was a descent book after all) but the ending ruined the ENTIRE book. Man, Diance Carey slapped an ending on it just to end it. The book could easily have been another 100 pages, if not two... That would have been sweet. There was still so much story to tell, and she didn't give the book its due. Diane Carey has never been one of my favorite writers, but she had something with this one, but it fell short of it's potential. 2 stars. Recomended read, but only if you want to be dissapointed
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