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Of interest in this particular novel is the premise of murder on the Enterprise, something of which is not supposed to happen in the twenty fourth century which lends heavily to the shock factor among the Captain and crew. John Vornholt deals with the issue fairly well throughout the book, delivering another good Star Trek novel.

The premise:

The crew of the Enterprise is quite shocked to find that a famous scientist named Lynn Costa who was visiting the ship is murdered. Captain Picard must see justice done so he assigns the task of discovering the murderer to Lieutenant Worf and Counselor Deanna Troi. Our erstwhile heroes soon find themselves embroiled in a web of deceit and betrayal all while an assassin is aboard the Enterprise...

I highly recommend this novel to any and all Star Trek fiction fans who are interested in reading a fairly well written Star Trek story by one of Star Trek's top ten authors. {ssintrepid}

ST-TNG: Contamination
Star Trek - The Next Generation: Contamination written by John Vornholt is for all intents and purposes is a murder-mystery that occurs on the Starship Enterprise.

This is a classic Worf and Deanna Troi book as Captain Jean-Luc Picard assigns Worf to investigate a murder on the Enterprise of a prominant research scientist, Lynn Costa. As the book goes into detail, we the reader get a better look into the ship's science labs and we are exposed to betrayal, madness and down right deceit as Worf investigates. We get to see Worf's investigative skills emerge as all parties are guilty until a confession is beaten out of them... but of course Captain Picard wants Worf to use more refined skills and we get to see how good Worf can be.

I enjoyed this book, but I must say, that the true murderer was revealed too early on in the book and it made for an anticlimatic ending. Too bad the author couldn't of hidden the identiy for a little while longer.

Other than that the book was a very good read and it warrants a 5 stars for the mystery, intrigue, and for excellent charter developmet of Worf.

A great murder mystery-action book.
The first half of this book is a murder mystery. Worf and Troi are trying to find the killer and getting nowhere. It might irritate them, but it is very well plotted and written and entertaining for us. Then the action starts: more murders, attempted murders, and a hijacking. Then we go to a trial, which of course has the wrong person accused. Worf finally figures it all out, and gets kidnapped. More action ensues. The action and character interaction and the trial are all very well done and immensely entertaining. This is one of my favourites in the Next Generation books.