Reading Star Trek books is a guilty pleasure of mine. I like the familiarity of the characters and they are always a light, quick read. The worst of them are just like watching a bad episode, not the best time, but you still want to see it. This was like one of those episodes. It read more like a nerdy romance novel with archetypal characters, the instinctive lustful Riker and the intellectual emotional Troi....Lame!! The majority of the book is them not having sex and talking about their feelings. I want Sci Fi, not Twilight.