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A review by frakalot
Boogeymen by Mel Gilden
3.0
"Some good points, some bad points. Oh, but it all works out." - 'Cities' by Talking Heads
This book is a mad, mad holodeck adventure and I thought it did a fair job of emulating this type of episode. It was wild and fun but tried to maintain a core lesson... That experience is the best way to learn.
I've grown to love holodeck episodes over the years. When I first watched TNG/DS9/VOY these episodes used to irk me but the more I've come to know the Starfleet crews the more fun they've seemed. Perhaps as I've grown up I've realised the important character building and concept testing that they provided.
There's a reference to the Trill with a description that is light years off what we know about them but that's excusable since they were a very underdeveloped concept during TNG.
I'm a pro-Wesley Trekkie and I didn't mind the objective he was driven by in this story but I thought he was both unnecessarily dismissive of the potential for the existing holodeck command program and unnecessarily exaggerating the difficulty of creating Boogeymen.
The term exologist seemed like a misspelling of exobiologist but I really didn't care about any other grammatical issues.
This was a fun story that I thought would easily fit in with other TNG episodes.
This book is a mad, mad holodeck adventure and I thought it did a fair job of emulating this type of episode. It was wild and fun but tried to maintain a core lesson... That experience is the best way to learn.
I've grown to love holodeck episodes over the years. When I first watched TNG/DS9/VOY these episodes used to irk me but the more I've come to know the Starfleet crews the more fun they've seemed. Perhaps as I've grown up I've realised the important character building and concept testing that they provided.
There's a reference to the Trill with a description that is light years off what we know about them but that's excusable since they were a very underdeveloped concept during TNG.
I'm a pro-Wesley Trekkie and I didn't mind the objective he was driven by in this story but I thought he was both unnecessarily dismissive of the potential for the existing holodeck command program and unnecessarily exaggerating the difficulty of creating Boogeymen.
The term exologist seemed like a misspelling of exobiologist but I really didn't care about any other grammatical issues.
This was a fun story that I thought would easily fit in with other TNG episodes.