- Mass Market Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Pocket Books; First Edition edition (Feb 1993)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0671797476
- ISBN-13: 978-0671797478
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.4 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,930,236 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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When the Enterprise becomes infected with a mysterious alien life-form, Starfleet is forced to order its evacuation and destruction to prevent the dangerous infection from spreading throughout the galaxy. But Captain Picard, defying Starfleet, formulates a plan to save his crew and ship.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
All in all an entertaining read. I'll try to avoid giving to much away but to sum up the Enterprise after investigating a colony gone silent, is put in danger by a lifeform which may prove to be the ships undoing. Most of the character development was very good: especially Data's interactions with the socially inverted Ensign. My only criticism of the book is the lack of action when the Enterprise may be decommissioned. Most of the book was takin up by the events leading up to the the order of decommisioning. The effort to prevent it is only covered in a few chapters, i would have prefered it to be more developed. Its over in a flash. However that aside, it was a good book, one i will definitely read again in the future.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
AWFUL!
10 Jan 2002
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I've never read a Star Trek book this bad. I don't think the author had ever seen the show, or had a clue who the characters were. I kept trying to give it a chance, but a few chapters in I finally gave up and threw it away. Awful, awful, awful.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
ST-TNG: Grounded
29 Jun 2003
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Star Trek - The Next Generation: Grounded written by David Bichoff is a mildly adventurous book that could have been written better. There are errors throughout the book and others on this review page have pointed them out. But as for the general overall story, it could have been better.
The alien in this novel is a clay-based life form that takes over the Enterprise and transforms inorganic materials to it's own form as it spreads thoughout the Enterprise endangering the crew. All of this happens in a remote part of the galaxy as the clay entity makes it's way piggy-back on the Enterprise.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard has a feeling that something isn't quite right with his ship and does a level one diagnostic as the crew is involved they begin to find the extent of the problem. This book has a subplot that mixes with the primary plot as Data is the dance partner to an autistic child, and that part of the story drags on as the real problem seems to get worse by the minute for the Enterprise and her crew.
The ending to this story is the confrontation with this malevolent alien force and there is a clever way of making this alien compliable. The book, as mentioned before, could have been written better. The story was clever but it fell flat.
This book is a 3 star book and that was generous... the editing had a lot to do with it. Whomever was the editor, needed to be more familuar with TREK cannon and the book would have flowed better and would have been a more pleasant read.
The alien in this novel is a clay-based life form that takes over the Enterprise and transforms inorganic materials to it's own form as it spreads thoughout the Enterprise endangering the crew. All of this happens in a remote part of the galaxy as the clay entity makes it's way piggy-back on the Enterprise.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard has a feeling that something isn't quite right with his ship and does a level one diagnostic as the crew is involved they begin to find the extent of the problem. This book has a subplot that mixes with the primary plot as Data is the dance partner to an autistic child, and that part of the story drags on as the real problem seems to get worse by the minute for the Enterprise and her crew.
The ending to this story is the confrontation with this malevolent alien force and there is a clever way of making this alien compliable. The book, as mentioned before, could have been written better. The story was clever but it fell flat.
This book is a 3 star book and that was generous... the editing had a lot to do with it. Whomever was the editor, needed to be more familuar with TREK cannon and the book would have flowed better and would have been a more pleasant read.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Just couldn't get into the story.
12 Jan 2000
Format:Mass Market Paperback
After forcing myself to read 30 pages I couldn't get into the story. I wasn't made to care about the characters or their dire situation. I was familiar with the characters, but I didn't see the characters I knew from the TV show. I felt the crew frequently calling Captain Picard 'Jean-Luc' was inappropriate and out of character. The dialog was written as if only one person was speaking for everyone. During a wardroom discussion, Data refers to Commander Riker as 'Captain', which indicated to me that I could expect other distracting inacurracies were I to continue reading. I plan to donate my copy of this book to the local library's fifty-cent sale bin.
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