Landing a coveted position with the Starfleet Academy Band, first-year cadet Will Riker befriends band roadie Geordi LaForge and threatens to quit the band if the older band members will not stop teasing him.
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Will Riker believed it was an honor to belong to the Starfleet Academy® Band, a position few first-year cadets achieve. He becomes friends with fellow cadet Geordi La Forge, the band's roadie, who looks forward to visiting exotic planets and hanging out with the band. But Riker isn't so sure. He's tired of being the butt of practical jokes -- standard treatment for all band newcomers -- and threatens to quit.
Then comes the big competition on the beautiful resort planet of Pacifica. T he Starfleet Academy Band is so good that they attract the unwanted attention of an alien warship. They are given a choice: perform for alien troops or be destroyed.
But when the cadets arrive on war-torn Elofim, they're caught in the crossfire with no escape. Suddenly, Riker isn't worrying about leaving the band. Instead, he and Geordi have to find a way off Elofim -- alive!
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Musical talent gets the teenagers into trouble!!!!!!!!!!!!!!,
By Mikael Kuoppala (Helsinki, Finland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Crossfire (Star Trek: the Next Generation: Starfleet Academy #11) (Paperback)
John Vornholt is a very two-faced star trek author, with the ability to produce ambitious and well written stories, while producing just as many naivé and brainless action adventures."Crossfire" is the purest example of the latter. The main character is the drily portrayed younger version of Geordie LaForge, who works as a roadie for the Starfleet Academy Big Band, where the equally dimensionless younger version of Will Riker plays the trombone. The book starts with the band traveling to a music competition on Pasifica, the much mentioned vacation planet of Starfleet officers. The first half of this ridiculously short, but still overstrched story centeres around the question of the band winning or not, with tons of unnecessary and clumsy scenes filling the pages. The action begins as a bunch of Orios kidnapp the band. Why? Because they like the way they play, of course; no more, no less. The band is taken to a planet where Orion troops are fighting as mercinaries in a war they've got nothing to do with, and the band is instructed to cheer them up. And of course the fighting begins just as they get there, leaving LaForge and Riker stranded together in the middle of a war zone. Needless to say, the book has a discusting 'Happily Ever After'-ending, wich involves a lot of technobabble and a solution any reader can figure out aieons before the characters. By the end of the book, I was truly perplexed by the question of how such a potential author could waste his time on something so utterly horrible.
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