Intellivore

by Diane Duane

A mission to examine a rift turns deadly when the USS Enterprise crew discovers a ship floating dead in space - with the minds of the crew totally inactive. The Enterprise find that they have stumbled... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671568329
• ISBN13: 9780671568320
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Length: 239 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.2" x 6.7"

Customer Reviews

STNG #45 Intellivore - A fairly good read!

Given the immense popularity and overwhelming acclaim that author Diane Duane received for "Dark Mirror," my anticipation for this numbered Star Trek The Next Generation novel was pretty high. Upon reading it though, I found the book to be good but lacking in a few areas. While Diane Duane's usual good style of writing is there where the premise is clear and executed well and the pace is steady but the characterizations are off and the overall feel of "Intellivore" is that much goes unsaid which is quite unfortunate.The cover art for this novel is pretty much standard fare for when the novel was published.The Premise:In true Star Trek fashion author Diane Duane takes the Enterprise into a no win situation when several ships and colonies mysteriously disappear into a Great Rift that is outside of Federation territory. Captain Picard leads the Enterprise and two other Federation starships to investigate this mystery and what they discover can only be described as epic in its scope...What follows from there is a fairly good numbered novel in the STNG line that I would definitely recommend to any and all fans of good Star Trek fiction despite the minor faults I earlier described. {ssintrepid}

Great writing but not spooky enough

The central plot for this book is more like something in the Original Series: the Enterprise encounters an interstellar monster and must destroy it. The author really created an epic foe for the Enterprise. Her writing is on her as usual high level. The descriptions of scenes and events are very clear. The action scenes are very clear and vividly described, and make for exciting reading. The language the characters use is a little strange though. This author just gets a bit too poetic when writing for the Next Generation crew. On a somewhat similar note, one flaw I found in this book was that the tension level, considering the magnitude of the enemy the Enterprise is facing and some of the things it does, was definitely lacking. Diane Duane showed in Dark Mirror that she could create a very tense, creepy atmosphere, but for some reason she neglected to do so here. Part of that flaw is her treatment of the monster's victims. Either they are people that we have little sympathy for, or their deaths are held at a distance from the reader, as though deliberately not to have too much impact. Instead, we get too little. On the plus side, this book also describes the lifestyle and some of the work of Starfleet's dedicated deep space explorers, which I found very interesting. All in all this is a very entertaining and well written book. A ghost story just should have been spookier, that's all.

A Great Author of A Great Series

In this novel Diane gave me a view on the world of StarTrek TNG unlike any experiance you could get from watching the show on TV. You arn't following just one character, you know everyones thoughts when you need to, it is constently an upbeat tempo from the time you start reading the first page on to the last word of the book. The book written from a POV of knowing all and hearing all, I believe it's technically called Third Person Omnenlucient, but I could be wrong. It's a quick reading book because of the temp itself, I had the hardest time putting it down. This was a very well written book.

A GREAT NOVEL, WORTH THE READ!

I have read many Star Trek books in the short course of half a year, and I can truly rank "Intellivore" among one of my favourites. Although I have many comments and suggestions for bettering this book which I perfer not to mention, "Intellivore" was very... gripping, to say the least. But I do have to say, it went a little slower than it should've, and I would like to have known more about the aliens than what was mentioned. Diane Duane is a fantastic author and did a great job in writing "Intellivore", but she has done a better job in the past. Still, this was a highly enjoyable book, and I liked the introduction of the woman and Trill captain. Nicely done, Diane!

OUTSTANDING!

Probably the best Star Trek book I've read