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5.0 out of 5 stars In True Enterprise Spirit, May 12 1999

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This review is from: All Good Things: A Novel (Mass Market Paperback)

I love everything about this one.... especially * Q, * paradox consisting of 3 tachyon pulses from 3 enterprises of diferrent times, * relatively new concepts in temporal mechanics - anti time vs normal time, * the new Enterprise D with 3 warpnacell and Admiral Riker aboard, * etc. etc. especially :-

When Picard says...after looking at everyone on the gambling table..."I should have done this long time ago"

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5.0 out of 5 stars All Good Things... (Star Trek: The Next Generation), Nov 2 2003

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This review is from: All Good Things...: A Novel (Hardcover)

Could not put this one down. This is an amazingly well-written book that trancends the genre.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Faithful novelization of a good episode., Dec 7 2002

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James Yanni (Bellefontaine Neighbors, Mo. USA) - See all my reviews
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There are a couple of major quibbles I have with the plot, however, and while it is not the fault of the book that the flaws are there (they were there in the episode) I still find that I can't rate the book higher given those sloppinesses. I don't know what I'd have done if I were making the novelization, and had to choose between diverging from the episode or making sense, but still...

The first flaw is in the claim that the three beams that created the anomaly were from "three different Enterprises, at three different times". Nice idea, but they WEREN'T. One of them (the one in the future) was from Beverly Crusher's medical ship; the future Enterprise never sent off a tachyon pulse. The second is that the anomaly, supposedly an "anti-time" anomaly, moves BACKWARD in time from its origin point, yet Picard and company find it FORWARD in time from its origin point, and growing.

I realize that when dealing with temporal anomalies, time travel, and weird physics, anything is possible. But it would be nice if things made sense INTERNALLY; if they can't be made to do so, it would be nice if the characters in the book at least acknowledged the wrongness and their inability to explain things. These flaws went a long way toward ruining a good story for me.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Follows the episode closely!
A great read, but unfortunately, there are none of those "extra" scenes thrown in, at least none that I can remember. Read more

Published on Oct 26 2001 by Scott Scheinhaus

2.0 out of 5 stars A Terrible Book!
I hated this book for the lack of detail and the lack of a good story on the part of the writer.

Published on Feb 5 2001