Contamination

Name: Contamination
Brand: Simon & Schuster Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Esther Friesner
ISBN: 9781442368316

Author: Esther Friesner

Series: Star Trek: The Next Generation

Narrator: Michael Dorn

Abridged: 1 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Published: 07/01/2013

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction, Military Science Fiction, Action & Adventure

Synopsis

The U.S.S. EnterpriseTM is stunned when famed scientist Lynn Costa is murdered in one of the ship's science labs. She and her husband Emil were known as science's greatest ongoing collaboration and, together had received the Federation's highest honors for their achievements in scientific research.
Determined to see the culprit brought to justice, Captain Picard assigns Lt. Worf and Counselor Deanna Troi to the case. Their routine investigation of the ship's science lab soon reveals a dangerous web of deceit, betrayal, and madness. Now, Worf and Troi find themselves struggling against a ruthless assassin set on revenge, for whom murder is only the beginning.

About The Author

Esther Friesner is winner twice over of the coveted Nebula Award (for the Year’s Best short Story, 1995 and 1996) and is the author of over thirty novels, including the USA Today best-seller Warchild, and more than one hundred short stories. For Baen she edited the five popular “Chicks in Chainmail” anthologies. Her works have been published in the UK, Japan, Germany, Russia, France and Italy. She lives in Connecticut with her husband, two children, and two rambunctious cats.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Louie the Mustache on October 13, 2023

On the one hand, there is a murder mystery that takes place on the Enterprise with a renowned scientist as the victim, but then the writer neglects to recognize that some of the events could not possibly have occurred on the ship because there are safeguards in place to prevent them. So despite the......more

Goodreads review by Jamie on March 16, 2024

A perfectly decent murder mystery aboard the Enterprise, with Worf and Troi as detectives.......more

Goodreads review by Nadienne on April 08, 2022

Overall, it's not too bad. I could see this being a regular episode, actually. As for the cover...I don't know what's going on with that. I'm guessing that was supposed to be the artist's attempt at a clean room suit aboard the Enterprise (there are clean rooms on the Enterprise, by the by...from on......more

Goodreads review by Phillip on August 11, 2014

I don't know whether to blame the writer and/or the editor, but this book has some significant issues in adequately portraying the characters and technology of TNG. The base story is fine (though it's pretty much a bottle episode which is pretty odd for a novel), but it's a standard murder mystery.......more

Goodreads review by Camille on August 28, 2012

There is a MURDER on The Enterprise... dun dun dunnnn. So Worf and Troi must investigate. I have to say it was a pretty good novel, and it actually used Troi in a meaningful way. I didn't figure out who actually did it until 20 pages from the end (but you might be quicker than me).......more