Review: 3.5 Stars
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 30, 2013
I'm just going to warn you now, I grew up watching Next Gen.That experience colors this review.For the first half of the book, I was disappointed. Again, thanks to my aforementioned nostalgia for all things Next Gen. Okay, not so much disappointed, but there was so much blah blah blah with new names and explaining different races and effe-all if the federation isn't effing annoying in text format when you have to describe all the effing bone ridges instead of just being able to see it.I was left thinking I'd made a terrible mistake.Actually, I was left muttering "I shouldn't have come, I'm endangering the mission" because I always quote Star Wars while I'm upset with Star Trek.Then you get to the point where characters have been described down to their belly buttons and things get good. Meaning there's a plot. And it's a good plot. I mean, there's a saboteur, another saboteur, deplorable orders, Worf, and the Nexus. Oh yes... the Nexus...I love me some the Nexus.(I don't care what anyone says, Generations was an awesome movie...)Basically, in the end, it was like an episode of Next Gen, for my mind. Which totally works for me. Especially since it didn't feature Wil Wheaton in any redonkulous sweaters. Something I can't say for the first season of Next Gen which hubs and I are watching on Netflix. And any book that makes you go "gd, I need to watch me some 180 episodes of an hour long show" is worth at least the 3.5 stars I'm giving it.And in case you missed it in my mini wall o' text:3.5 stars