Grounded (Star Trek The Next Generation, No 25)

This would have been a good one to put on the TV series. Found a few errors...but overlooked them. The idea of the crew getting separated was appealing. The end of the book reminded me of the final TV episode where Picard joins his crew in a recreational activity. I recommend this to TNG fans...although...I wish Worf was more involved.

This book is very interesting,to say the least, but that doesn't quite cut it. As you get in to the book, you find yourself thinking more about the climax than what you're reading at the moment.It just gets too murky and boring. The "mud/clay" monster is very cool,I must admit, and this book vaguelly reminds me of a much creepier trek book; J.M. Dillard's "Bloodthirst", aka.in both books, an away team lands on a remote science planet, and finds the most of the rescearch team dead, and ones still alive are not able to talk about what happened for one reason or another, and the crew must find out what they're hiding, or the Federation will be destroyed.

Captains of the Enterprise have that certain knack for finding forces in the universe that are on the verge of destroying them, the Federation, and the known universe. However, Grounded takes this well used scenario and presents it to the reader in a well written edition. If you have not read many of the Star Trek novels, this is one of the better ones to start with.