very good book

whn a probe is discovered carrying a distress signal that is over 200 years old, the enterprise is ordered to the area to see what finally became of the planet. they are very surprised to find that some of the inhabitants did survive. but as the enterprise makes first contact, they find that their is a lot of dissention and rebellion among the ranks of the people. all of them do not want the enterprise's help and will go to any extreme to keep that from happening.

the book dragged some but the story was basically very well written and definitely better than the first book in the series.

New world....and old rocks

This is the next book in the series of books showing the crew of the starship Enterprise as they struggle to deal with the problems from the previous two novels. After the sticky situation that Captian Picard got into with the demon ship, he struggles to deal with Starfleet Command and the backwater missions his ship is sent on.

This book sends the Enterprise to a remote sector of space to follow up on a message sent years ago by a dying world. Their wildest hopes are realized when they find the surviving members of the doomed world. Unfortunately this proud race, struggling to survive, is manipulated by an old enemy of the Enterprise.

This was a wonderful book and I waited until the second part to come out. I wanted to know who this enemy is and what role they are playing.

a little slow, but good

After the incident with the Ontailians, the Enterprise is sent to a far away part of the galaxy to determine what happened to a race that was presumed destroyed centuries before. Not to my surprise, they found a civilization that survived after all that time. There's some good character moments, but one of the reasons I don't give this five stars is because it's hard to keep up with the dialogue. Two lines of dialogue are written and then you get two pages of what the characters are thinking about, and then you get a few more lines and have to flip back to see where the conversation had left off before the lengthy explinations.The book also explains everything in detail over and over again, but at least that way you never forget what's going on because if you set the book down for a week and go back to it, the whole situation will be mentioned again - in detail. It's much better than A Time to Die, specially since there's no Wesley in this book.