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  <title><![CDATA[A Rock and a Hard Place (Star Trek: The Next Generation #10)]]></title>
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  <default_description>Under the best circumstances, terraforming is a tough, dangerous task that pits the hardiest of pioneers against an unforgiving environment. When the terraformers on the planet Paradise fall behind schedule, commander Riker is given temporary leave from the U.S.S. &lt;i&gt;Enterprise&lt;/i&gt;, and sent to assist.
Riker's replacement on the Starship &lt;i&gt;Enterprise&lt;/i&gt; is a volatile officer named Stone whose behavior soon raises questions about his ability and his judgment. Meanwhile, Commander Riker has become enmeshed in a life and struggle with Paradise's brutal landscape. However, he soon learns that not all of the planet's dangers are natural in origin -- as he comes face to face with Paradise's greatest danger and most hideous secret.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1989</original_publication_year>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1991</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed May 14 12:07:59 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed May 14 12:17:23 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[As mentioned in some of my earlier Star Trek reviews, I have a nostalgic fondness for these novels, which provided me with some of the best entertainment of my adolescence. I feel almost incapable, as a consequence, of judging their actual merit - I only know that I enjoyed them immensely.<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22245361">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Thu Mar 05 19:46:54 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Mar 05 19:50:39 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[These books are like a Sci-Fi version of a Harlequin romance.  Easy to read with interesting but uncomplicated plots.  If you watched the TV show the books will feel familiar - with the same characters and stories similar to a show episode.  If you like Star Trek or even sci-fi stories in general th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48379782">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Fri Apr 18 22:12:53 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon May 19 08:24:30 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Peter David tries for a more serious Trek book with mixed results.<br/>The character of Stone is used to show some of the grey area of the Federation and how Star fleet personel are always finding loop holes in the Prime Directive, but he comes across as some kind of whack job. <br/>He's not terri...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20507390">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="22968716">
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  <read_at>Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Star Trek TNG was one of my favourite TV series.<br/><br/>&quot;People are only nervous about something they don't fully understand.&quot;, &quot; It was onlyu a few centuries ago that, if there was something unknown, humans would automatically deal with it in one of three ways: KILL IT, POLLUTE I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22968716">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="14583582">
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1990</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Feb 04 20:23:03 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read all these &quot;Next Generation&quot; books in middle school/early high school. Even then I thought most of them were pretty bad (and I remember this one being particularly bad). But I'm a completist so they must be included in my book list!]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1991</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Apr 26 22:06:13 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't remember much about this book except for the character of Commander Stone and his scathing critique of the Prime Directive, which is the principal reason I liked it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Peter David wrote the best of the TNG fan-fic novels...This guy knew the series like the die hard fans.]]></body>
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