Imzadi (Star Trek the Next Generation)
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Amazon blurb...
Years before they served together on board the U.S.S. EnterpriseTM, Commander William Riker and ship's counselor Deanna Troi had a tempestuous love affair on her home planet of Betazed. Now, their passions have cooled and they serve together as friends. Yet the memories of that time linger and Riker and Troi remain Imzadi - a powerful Betazoid term that describes the enduring bond they still share.
During delicate negotiations with an aggressive race called the Sindareen Deanna Troi mysteriously falls ill and dies. But her death is only the beginning of the adventure for Commander Riker, an adventure that will take him across time, pit him against one of his closest friends, and force him to choose between Starfleet's strictest rule and the one he calls Imzadi.
Years before they served together on board the U.S.S. EnterpriseTM, Commander William Riker and ship's counselor Deanna Troi had a tempestuous love affair on her home planet of Betazed. Now, their passions have cooled and they serve together as friends. Yet the memories of that time linger and Riker and Troi remain Imzadi - a powerful Betazoid term that describes the enduring bond they still share.
During delicate negotiations with an aggressive race called the Sindareen Deanna Troi mysteriously falls ill and dies. But her death is only the beginning of the adventure for Commander Riker, an adventure that will take him across time, pit him against one of his closest friends, and force him to choose between Starfleet's strictest rule and the one he calls Imzadi.
I am looking forward to reading this. Thank you so much.
The first three-quarters of Imzadi is average Star Trek fiction. It deals too much with the sexual attraction and thoughts of young Will Riker and Deanna Troi as they meet for the first time on Deanna's home planet of Betazed. Deanna is shy, reserved, and virginal. She is under her dominating mother's thumb. Will is a brash ladies' man who never felt this way about anyone . . . you get the picture. They have a steamy affair in the jungle . . . at one point I thought even I could take a stab at writing Star Trek fiction.
The other part of the story is darker and more compelling. Moving at a slow pace for the first three-quarters, but speeding up and becoming intense, complicated, and gripping in the last quarter, is the story of the old Will Riker of the future. Riker lost Deanna when she died a mysterious and agonizing death just before she was to attend a pivotal peace conference with the confrontational Sindareen. Riker was never the same.
I won't reveal more of the plot except to say that at the end Will is pitted against his old friend Data in a life-or-death race against time. Excellent and well-thought out writing in the last pages of the book.
The other part of the story is darker and more compelling. Moving at a slow pace for the first three-quarters, but speeding up and becoming intense, complicated, and gripping in the last quarter, is the story of the old Will Riker of the future. Riker lost Deanna when she died a mysterious and agonizing death just before she was to attend a pivotal peace conference with the confrontational Sindareen. Riker was never the same.
I won't reveal more of the plot except to say that at the end Will is pitted against his old friend Data in a life-or-death race against time. Excellent and well-thought out writing in the last pages of the book.
