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Infiltrator (Star Trek: The Next Generation, Book 42)

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"Infiltrator" is a very impressive book for being one of the numbered novels in the Star Trek The Next Generation line of novels. Sadly enough, this novel is the second and final Star Trek novel written by W.R. Thompson which is a shame considering how well this novel and the author's first novel, "Debtor's Planet" were written. It would be nice to see this author make a return to the Star Trek genre.

"Infiltrator," from beginning to end is an extraordinarily intriguing story, written with an excellent premise, superb plot setup and execution and very fast pacing, all combining to make for an excellent read in the Star Trek genre.

The cover art for this novel is good, but still merely standard for the time in which this novel was published.

The premise:

As authors in the Star Trek genre are often want to do and most successfully carry out, this novel draws from the "history" of Star Trek by furthering the legacy of Khan Noonien Singh, the leader of the Eugenics Wars.

During the height of Khan's reign on Earth, several of his followers left Earth to colonize the planet Hera and continue their experiments in selective breeding. After several centuries, the Heran's are ready to launch their plan for universal domination through genetics. The Enterprise comes into the picture and we soon learn that a Heran expatriate named Astrid Kemal is dubiously on board. We also soon learn that is it solely up to Captain Picard and the crew of the starship Enterprise to stop this plan before it comes to fruition.

As stated above, "Infiltrator" is one of the more intriguing and better written numbered novels to be released in the STNG line. I highly recommend this novel to any and all fans of Star Trek fiction! {ssintrepid}

Star Trek-The Next Generation: Infiltrator written by W.R. Thompson is a book about a selective breeding experiment on the planet called Hera.

At the time when Khan Nooien Singh was being a tyrant on Earth, some centuries ago, a few of his followers decided to leave Earth and start anew. Thus, we have a race of genetically alter humans wanting to reek havoc across the galaxy. Now, enters Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the U.S.S. Enterprise as the foil in the Federation plans to stop this insanity.

Captain Picard enlists the help of an expatriate called Astrid Kemal to defeat this the plot hatched by these other superbeings. This book gives us a good look at what can go wrong with all good intentions, even those of superhumans.

We see Number One, William Riker in the thick of things to stop the brink of galaxy-wide eugenics war and gives us a good look of what he is made of. With Geordi and Wolf things get pretty dicey and grim, but I can't tell out how this gets all resolved or I'll ruin the book for you.

The narrative moves quickly and the character development grows, while the plot is forming and we get a well-planned adventure that will keep you engrossed till the ending. This is one of the better ST-TNG books where the lesser bridge crew do most of the action and clean-up what could be a galaxy-wide Khan on the universe.

This is a story that would be difficult to film convincingly. I suppose you could get some big football players to play the Herans but 6'5 300 pound guys don't get a lot of acting experience outside of pro-wrestling. Plus the spider character would be expensive to animate. Since we've seen the last of the Next Gen characters in the movies, books like this make for a worthy substitute. Very glad I picked it up.

This is a well-above-average Star Trek novel; it has good pacing, good characterization, smooth writing, and a fair to middling plot. It almost fell into the trap of being just another of the many Star Trek novels with the "crazy, out-of-control admiral" plot, but managed to more or less mostly avoid that pitfall. It puts a somewhat different spin on the usual "genetically engineered supermen" plot, too. Since I don't really care for the first of these plots, even seeing a near-miss cost the book a partial star, and while I don't mind the other and found the twist to be interesting, I still feel that the basic concept is overused, so that was a small negative, too. And the suggestion that Riker might be descended from the followers of Khan is rather dubious. So all in all, I'll give the book four stars for a very good effort, but not five. It has too many overused plot points for that high a rating.

A great book. I found it hard to put down, but I eventually I did (when I finished:}). You would be well advised to read this excellent work. Recommend it to any and all of your friends

The story is an excellent one. There are some interesting moments included in this book. I liked Thompson's treatment of the characters Worf, Geordi, Picard and Riker.

One of the best SF books I've read for a long time, I had to read it twice in a row. It deserves sequels.

I liked the book. I could not put it down. I had to finish it in one sitting. It is a very good book to read. I hope there will be a sequel

This book is great. And talks about one of my favoriate characters Geordi. I like this book because it is so great. I mean their all infected Riker could be a desendant of Kahn and it is so cool. I really liked this book and if you like star trek you will really enjoy this book.