The Grand Star Trek Book Review #2: A Rock and a Hard Place (TNG #10)

Peter David pretty reliable but, like most of TNG's early books or early episodes, the going is bumpy with patches of promise. I like David a lot and his Star Trek series New Frontier was, at least for awhile, a marvelous book series.

David even says one of the characters in A Rock and Hard Place morphed into Captain Calhoun from the New Frontier series so you got that.

Riker is one of my favorite characters so a book about him is always good but he is separated from the crew throughout and that depresses me. I know Star Trek books can truly explore new worlds and new civilizations WITHOUT worrying about budgets but throughout middle and high school, where I was generally a loner or an eccentric, I liked to be on the Enterprise because it felt like a second home. It still does.

So A Rock and a Hard Place hurts a bit because it takes place mostly off the ship. And on the ship we are kind of presented with a common plot with a new officer coming in who has his own problems and problems with our beloved crew. Nothing amazing but my memories of awfulness don't exist for this title. David is too good with Trek to be awful.