The Death of Princes (Star Trek: The Next Generation, No. 44) [Mass Market Paperback]

John Peel (Author)

Book Description

Series: Star Trek Next Generation (Numbered) | Publication Date: December 1, 1996

Dangerous assignments come in pairs when Captain Picard and his crew are confronted with two desperate missions on two different worlds.

On the planet Buran, newly linked to the Fedration, a mysterious disease devastates the population-and turns them against the visitors from the U.S.S. Enterprise. Meanwhile, on nearby lomides, a renegade Federation observer has disappeared, intent on violating the Prime Directive by preventing a tragic political assassination.

While Dr. Crusher struggles to find a cure for the plague ravaging Buran, Commander Will RIker leads an Away Team to lomides. Their forces divided, Picard and his crew find themselves the only hope of two worlds.

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Dangerous assignments come in pairs when Captain Picard and his crew are confronted with two desperate missions on two different worlds.

On the planet Buran, newly linked to the Fedration, a mysterious disease devastates the population-and turns them against the visitors from the U.S.S. Enterprise. Meanwhile, on nearby lomides, a renegade Federation observer has disappeared, intent on violating the Prime Directive by preventing a tragic political assassination.

While Dr. Crusher struggles to find a cure for the plague ravaging Buran, Commander Will RIker leads an Away Team to lomides. Their forces divided, Picard and his crew find themselves the only hope of two worlds.END

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 276 pages
• Publisher: Star Trek; First Edition edition (December 1, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671568086
• ISBN-13: 978-0671568085
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,670,123 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An excellent book!, April 8, 2000

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This review is from: The Death of Princes (Star Trek: The Next Generation, No. 44) (Mass Market Paperback)

I really like this book. The two stories were balanced really well, and I enjoyed the crime/mystery scenario surrounding the plague storyline. Buy it ... if you like Star Trek books with lots of character interaction, dealing with alien races and a story line that keeps you guessing. Don't buy it ... if you like lots of action, space battles and things getting blown up.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The best ST:NG book I've read in a long time., June 26, 2000

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Holly (The Caribbean) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Death of Princes (Star Trek: The Next Generation, No. 44) (Mass Market Paperback)

For the most part I found this book to be very interesting and exciting (especially the assassination story). There were however two things that didn't make sense to me - 1. I couldn't accept Deanna as some kind of undercover agent (has she ever done anything like that in the series or movies?) 2. Why didn't Riker and the others get sub-cutaneous locators so that they could have been beamed off of Grell's island? It might have presented a problem if they were caught and the locators discovered, but the risk of being caught was greater if they had to carry Maria Wallace.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Predictable Plots, Bad Charachterization, inconsistant, April 1, 2003

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Rachel Watkins "Rachel Watkins" (Joshua, Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Death of Princes (Star Trek: The Next Generation, No. 44) (Mass Market Paperback)

Death of Princes is two stories, both rather mediocre on thier own, and even more mediocre mixed together. When two stories are together as in this book, it's nice to at least have the book edited in an every-other-chapter format, unfourtunatly, there is no telling where the book will flip from one story to the next.

There are also several inconsistancies. In the begining of the book, a refrence is made to one planet, and the fact that the low gravity and *thick* atmosphere make it easier for the bird decended inhabitants to fly. However, when an away team beams down, refrence is made to the uncomfortable moment in adjusting to the *thin* atmosphere, as if one were stepping out onto a mountaintop.

In order to move the plot along, the author convieniently forgets about technology avalible, such as transporters and communicators, at key moments. Technical plausibility consistant with the show and technology does not exist in this book.

As others have noted, Dianna Troi is not Dianna Troi at all....I'm not sure who took her body over, but she speaks and acts totally unlike herself, as do many of the charachters. Riker and Barclay even *gloat* at the evil bad guys towards the end of the book. In both stories the 'bad guys' are just too illogical, or too evil to be belivable.
There are far better books out there in the TNG series to read.