A Time to Love

A well known character dies, Dr Crusher must find a way to correct a problem that took years to cause, and she only has a very little time of course. Murder is new to the planet below and Star fleet, in the form of Capt. Picard and crew have to find out why, and how to stop it spreading. Lots of action, mystery and suspense, an absolute must if you have read the previous books in the "A time too" series, and if you have not, then DO! Any Star trek fan will love these official stories, as copyrighted by Paramount pictures. They explain what happened to the Enterprise crew between the last two Enterprise E films, and what happened immediately after the fight against Shinzon. Read them.

A Time to Love, by Robert Greenberger, is the fifth book in the Time to... series of Star Trek: The Next Generation novels, taking place immediately before the movie Star Trek: Nemesis. The first four books were up and down affairs, wallowing in Trek continuity and occasionally telling a good story. A Time to Love, however, is the first one that's been fully satisfying. It is rather lightweight, but for some reason it packs a punch. It begins the story of how William Riker, first officer of the Enterprise, finally finds himself with a command of his own after all these years under Captain Picard. While concentrating on this and his relationship with Deanna Troi, the book also tells a great story too. A Time to Love is a short book (263 pages), but somehow Greenberger packs a lot into it. The first ten pages are a little slow as he summarizes what's happened so far in the series, but he does it in an interesting fashion: having Troi and Riker going through crew transfer applications, commenting on what's happened so far and how it's affecting morale. This scene is also important as it begins the realization, carried throughout this book and the next, that Riker has to finally make a decision about his life. He's 42 years old, he and Troi have rekindled their romance (in the movie Insurrection, but they haven't moved forward. Just what is he waiting for? Plus, he has turned down many command opportunities to stay with Enterprise, but is that still the right thing to do? I've never seen such an effective summary before, giving us new information even as it goes over old. Some of the later scenes, such as Geordi's, do slow down and tell us too much about the past without anything happening, but those scenes are not very long. The characterization in this book is wonderful. Riker and Troi get the most, but everybody else is great too. Picard is getting fed up with the boring missions that he's been given, mainly to keep Enterprise out of the spotlight and allow time for the furor to die down. Picard feels put upon, and he wishes for a mission that he can sink his teeth into. The Delta Sigma IV mission turns out to be just what he asked for, but perhaps too much. His frustration when the ruling council on Delta Sigma IV is frozen with indecision is palpable, as his annoyance with himself when he realizes that he hasn't kept on top of the situation on the Enterprise very well during the mission. Crusher's indecision about the offer to head Starfleet Medical is hanging over her head, and she keeps coming to the realization that she and Picard will never have a romantic relationship and she must also look to her career. In the meantime, though, she is determined to do as much to help the people on the planet below as she is able. Even better are the scenes with the various security officers as they try to quiet the situation down on the planet before it escalates into even more violence. We get scene after scene of these officers d

on a peaceful planet, two diffrent cultures, the bader and the dorsets have colonized a world and learned to live in peace for 100 years. but their scientist have found an illness that shortens the life spans of both species and will have them extinct within 2 generations. the federation sends commander riker's father to help find a cure. they have test subjects who seem to be cured and the people decide to have a celebration of this and to mark 100 years of peace. on the day of the celebaration, the unthinkable happens. someone is murdered. there has been no crime for a 100 years and the ruling body is at wits end on how to deal with this new problem. the enterprise is called in when it is discovered that riker's father may have a connection to the murder and the continiung problems that are escalating out of control. is the secret to the crimes the fault of the cure to the disease? or is there some more sinister work at hand? this book keeps you intrigued all the way through. it is definitely the best one to date. really worth reading.

Even though I grew up with the Original Series Star Trek, I also came to love TNG as well and, later, VOYAGER and ENTERPRISE. Being an avid fan of sci-fi in general, however, it would be an injustice on my part not to mention the many other old and new sci-fi works that both led me to Star Trek and which have forever forged my love for all sci-fi works: "Stranger in a Strange Land", "Puppet Masters", "Foundation", "2001", "2010", "Rendezvous with Rama", "Ringworld", all the "Star Trek" and "Star Wars" books, as well as books as new to the genre as "Advent of the Corps" and others.

Star Trek-The Next Generation: "A Time to Love" written by Robert Greenberger is the fifth book in a nine book series. Now we are told about the adventures of the Enterprise and her crew from the time of Star Trek "Insurrection' to the time of Star Trek "Nemesis." This book is shorter than the rest of the books, so far, in the series and reminds me of a short story. You'll read this book in just a few hours and that is the rub. As "A Time to Love" works off of the previois books in this series and works as a set-up for "A Time to Hate" which is the next book in this series. I found this book to be a rather light-weight book in both story plot and action as the Enterprise and her are sent to Delta Sigma IV to help celebrate an event of one hundred years of peace, but the population is dying off early as the life spans of both the Bader and Dorset, the two species that have settled Delta Sigma IV, are being cut short with each successive generation. Now the Enterprise crew must find the answer."A Time to Love" works essentially as a set-up book and gives information that is found in the earlier books of this series and Captain Jean-Luc Picard has to clear the name of Enterprise for the rest of the fleet as scuttlebutt has the Enterprise with a tarnished reputation. As Picard would prefer a crew that would put the ship and the Federation first, that has not been the case as transfers off of Enterprise mount. "A Time to Love" is a book that gets the major characters involved into the story, Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Will Riker, Beverly Crusher, Geordi LaForge, and Christine Vale. Each of these character plays a pivotal role in the progression of the story and makes the book interesting as the character involvement works and we see good interaction. As Picard coordinates this mission. Will Riker is chasing down his father Kyle Riker as there is some suspicion that the elder Riker may have some involvement with the violence that has besiged Delta Sigma IV. Beverly Crusher is in the roll of medical doctor and researcher trying to find the cause and then a cure. Geordi LaForge is working on the supply shortage of replacement parts and is working an exchange program among the starships. And Vale has her security team streched far and wide acrossed the planet trying to keep the peace. Data is minding the ship through the all of this. "A Time to Love" is NOT an action-adventure book. In fact, it wasn't really interesting till the last 30 pages or so when the author cranked up the action to get you interested in the next book in this series "A Time to Hate." This is why I gave this book only four stars as the story was kind of bland and the fact that this book could be combined with "A TIme to Hate" and make one good book instead of two books for marketing purposes.