Durgin, Doranna

AVERAGE REVIEW SCORE:

2 out of 5

(1 book)

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Tooth And Claw

The 60th TNG novel.  To secure navigation routes which will help the Federation rescue a doomed civilisation, Captain Picard enters into negotiations with Tsorans, whose strict code of prestige makes them highly intractable.  Meanwhile, Riker, Worf and La Forge are sent along with a Tsoran ritual hunting party into a game reserve filled with deadly predators.

I'll grant that the story in this book does feel like an episode of TNG.  Unfortunately, it feels like one of the filler episodes that no-one ever talks about because it adds nothing to series or the characters.  Above and beyond everything else, however, this book was just very boring.

The author does a very good job of establishing how frustrated the Enterprise crew are with the obstructive nature of the Tsoran 'daelura' (their system of honour/prestige) but she does it by making us, the reader, every bit as frustrated.  Apart from this preventing the plot from advancing at any number of points throughout the book, there is very little here that you won't see coming a mile off.  The culprit behind the sabotage was the least shocking revelation I've seen in a long time.

Overall, this book is pretty tedious and fairly obvious.

2 out of 5

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