Star Trek: The Next Generation: Time #1: A Time to Be Born

The beginning section (and all the sections that feature Wes) are great. But the other sections seem sub-par. I would say that the author is very skilled in sewing together plot elements, but not so much when it comes to character dialogue and actions. The dialogue should match the character's speaking style from the show, but in this book, dialogue coming from Picard and Data is hit-or-miss. He seems to really nail Crusher, Riker, and Geordi though.

lately i've begun to notice a trend with john vornholt's books ... while they're set in the TNG universe, the characters he writes are NOT the same characters we're accustomed to with the series nor does he have a very fluid writing style. with most books, characterizations are the imagination of the author as the characters are, for the most part, the creation of the author; however, since the TNG books are based off of the characters that we've come to know and love from the television series and the movies, they should mirror them in the way the characters act/speak/react ... john vornholt just isn't capable of doing that ... his characters are pale representations of themselves and they act nothing like their on-screen counterparts and i find myself scoffing at conversations between characters and thinking "that's NOT how [insert character here] would respond or act!" conversations among the crew seem forced and don't feel--for lack of a better word--real. picard feels so much less of a strong figure and more like a petulant child in this book, and troi, while somewhat of an annoying character in the TV series, is over-the-top with childish outbursts and rationalizations that make me cringe (these are just two examples). overall i am a HUGE TNG fan and i WILL read these novels as they fall into the timeline, but i fervently wish that john vornholt would find another line of work as his stories are becoming increasingly unbearable to read.

I haven't read a book oh I guess about 3 hrs. But I saw this on a shelt at a book sale and got it for some reason. I have always been a star trekker . But I read the book in a little over a day. I had to find time to read it and enjoy reading and took me in to it. Wi was in the book thriving on the content of the book. I stayed in till I finished with the awful realization, these books are old. It's been out for quite awhile. Gotta get more.