This was an (abridged) audiobook experience for me.



Listening to Jonathan Frakes' narration, augmented with cheesy sound effects and some proper '90s softcore porno music cues during the loooooove scenes had me grinning non-stop, though I honestly don't know how someone who didn't grow up loving the Star Trek: TNG series would find it, but I imagine the word to describe it would start with "cr" and rhyme with "hinge"...


Because '90s.

This was supposedly a huge bestseller back in the day (1992). I gotta say, I don’t really get it. I think I missed the boat here.A while back I went looking for people’s favorite Star Trek novels and then found some of them in my local used bookstores. This was one of the three I ended up picking up, and as my first Star Trek tie-in novel, I could probably have done better. Or, maybe I’m just missing the cultural context. It’s thirty-years old at this point, and it was published during the middl...

Peter David is a master. His treatments of other franchises, such as Marvel's cinematic universe, were amazing, and he blew me away with this Star Trek novel that spans great lengths of time and space. The only thing preventing me from giving this a perfect score is the content, specifically the sex and excessive profanity.

EDIT: Not only was the amount of sexual content higher than I remembered, but the edition I read this time had such tiny print, it was rather hard to read.

Back in 1996 this was No.3 of year out of 145 books but was my Top book of the year.Set around the most important thing in Star Trek History The Guardian of Forever (the Joan Collins Star Trek Emie award )
An Imzardi is beloved in Beltazod Diana Troy & Riker lovers across time even wrong time

2.5Despite having seen, I think, every episide of TNG when it was on, I never got into reading the various novels. Thgouh I don't really do a lot of expanded universe stuff as a general rule. But this was picked for a group BotM, so I decided to give it a go.I will say that it started well enough, despite the fact that I sort of cottoned on to the probably plot in the first few pages. But I liked seeing some of the alternate future, with Captain Crusher doing the Picard tug at his jacket, and Co...

I remember watching Star Trek with my dad when I was a kid. It would come on after school, and I loved it. The adventures, the crazy escapes, the close calls... It was good stuff. I had SUCH a crush on Will Riker when I was younger. Not baby-faced Riker, but more mature, bearded Riker. Man I loved him. (And to this day, I love a man with facial hair. But that's beside the point. LOL)As much as I loved the show, I'm not much of a tie-in fiction reader. I love Star Wars too (yeah, I swing both way...

I had two reasons to look forward to this book: the author had been recommended to me, and I yearned to learn more about the origins of the Riker/Troi romance. The author's nonlinear storytelling and the time travel elements of the book were creative enough to keep me reading until the last page. He has skill at crafting plot and action. The relationship as written here, however, fell completely flat for me. Their story was filled from start to finish with bad cliches, current gender stereotypes...

My favorite Trek novel ever (and of course made me a die-hard Imzadi shipper). I have it in paperback...and hardcover...and audiobook...

4.0 stars. Nobody does Star Trek better than Peter David and this is another superb example. It is what you get when you take a richly defined universe (star trek) and pair it with a writer with true chops.

My personal favorite Star Trek novel of all time!!! And I believe that if I have to choose only one novel of all that I have read, this one has to be my favorite novel at all too. SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY This book has it all... drama, action, romance, mystery, science fiction, time travel, alternate realities, etc......well you couldn't ask for more!!!When I read the synopsis in the back cover (back then, in 1993), while judging if I'd buy the book or not, I got amazed.And when I read the b...