A review by anomalocaris
Planet of Judgment by Joe Haldeman

2.0

Sometimes I read garbage Trek novels. I won't hear a word of criticism so all of you shut up. My edition, which I purchased for literally $1 from an elderly woman at a con as if I were making a deal with a witch, is dated 1977. This accounts for a lot of the weird pre-TNG deviations from canon.

Unfortunately, even taking that into account, this is a bad book by Trek tie-in novel standards. Characterisation is bad; science is good. I have read slash fanfiction that manages to get both of those things right, though, so. I can make no excuses for either myself or the author.