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Power Hungry (Star Trek: The Next Generation #6)
by
Howard Weinstein (Goodreads Author)
Sent to deliver emergency famine relief to the planet Thiopa -- the Federation's only allies in a critically important sector of space -- the crew finds a brutal dictatorship -- one more concerned with preserving its own powers than protecting its citizens, or the world they all share. Captain Picard is hesitant about turning over the supplies to the corrupt government: he...more
Mass Market Paperback, 276 pages
Published
May 1st 1989
by Pocket Books
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The Enterprise is called to deliver aid to Thiopia, a planet struggling with famine and ecological disaster. Before transferring the food supplies, Picard and his bridge crew are invited to a great banquet hosted by the planet's government, complete with a very marie-antoinette 'let them eat cake' speech, which leads them to question who needs the aid?
An interesting young scientist seems to have answers to the ecological disaster, proposing an innovating climate control system. Data immediately...more
An interesting young scientist seems to have answers to the ecological disaster, proposing an innovating climate control system. Data immediately...more
I somehow missed this when these novels were originally release but I went back and filled the gap. This one seemed to lack some of the appeal of the series with most of the action taking place on an ecologically challenged planet with two warring factions. It easily reached the level of good science fiction but didn't rise to the level of brilliant or even inspired.
None of the characters revealed any new quirks or traits and it presented no truly new ideas.
Still, the prose was workmanlike an...more
None of the characters revealed any new quirks or traits and it presented no truly new ideas.
Still, the prose was workmanlike an...more
Power Hungry plays out as a subpar Star Trek The Next Generation episode. If you are on a quest to read all the TNG novels (like myself), feel free to skip this one without any guilt.
Another note: Riker and Deanna Troi are featured on the cover of the book, but Deanna Troi appears perhaps three times in the novel, which I found odd.
Another note: Riker and Deanna Troi are featured on the cover of the book, but Deanna Troi appears perhaps three times in the novel, which I found odd.
For all that this was a fairly typical Trek adventure, I quite enjoyed it. There was a little personal development in there, the planetary politics were fairly interesting and the humour with the ambassador was fairly typical of the genre's lighter moments.
My overriding memory of this book is Picard, sniffing at a pretentious dictator's speech, and saying "Let them eat cake". A run of the mill, overthrow-the-bad-guys Star Trek story, made bearable by Mr. Weinstein's easy handling of the TNG crew.
It was ok, nothing special, like a standard filler episode that doesn't bring anything new to the table. I did find that it was quite true to the characters though.
Weinstein is good, but I think he's more at home with TOS characters. I find his novels about the original series much more compelling.
I am definitely going to need to read the rest of this series. These are fantastic.
3.5 out of 5
Preachy
Aug 27, 2011
Angela
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3 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
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A green themed novel, about a race in denial about destroying their world. Strange that Troi is on the cover because she's not in the novel much. A standard TNG episode.
Easily the worst of these early Next Generation novels. This book was all about preaching the way we endanger our planet just set on a different world. Lets get back to exploration and character development and step away from the soapbox.
Feb 04, 2008
Jeff
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I read all these "Next Generation" books in middle school/early high school. Even then I thought most of them were pretty bad. But I'm a completist so they must be included in my book list!
Jun 07, 2013
Nikki
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Robin Powell
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