Reviews

Perchance to Dream by Howard Weinstein

leland_hw's review against another edition

3.0

Good story. I imagine that ensemble casts must be utterly difficult to write though. Rather than sticking with a select few characters and focusing the story on them, Weinstein has used every character and even added a few more. I felt that most of them were only present as window dressing. Secondly, I felt the resolution was just a bit too smooth and ultimately unsatisfying. Still, as far as Star Trek stories go, it was still a fun story.

fruitkate's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

azurite's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

frakalot's review against another edition

4.0

Knowing full well that I shouldn't judge a book by its cover, I have been looking forward to reading this one for a long time just based on the picture and title. I'm pleased to say that I highly enjoyed this story.

It's a perfect TNG set up and I thought the story was an interesting classic. It rings a little familiar to Darmok and Jalad without the language barrier.

I thought all of the characters were well presented and the story with its multiple threads had me engaged from start to finish.

octavia_cade's review against another edition

3.0

This is the type of story that Star Trek does particularly well, and it's one of the ongoing themes that differentiates it from many of the other franchises, some of which have a lamentable tendency to grimdark. Picard and the Enterprise come into contact with two alien races, and the triangle of conflict between the three is slowly untangled to result in three well-meaning societies who have learned to communicate with each other and become friends. There's disagreement within each society as to what should be done, but little of it is mean-spirited and even the naysayers come around in the end. It's just all affirming and generally positive, albeit it does have one irritating subplot, and that (of course) includes Wesley Crusher, who couldn't not be annoying if his life depended on it. As it is, he and two teenage friends are on a training mission to evaluate their possible candidacy for the Academy, and they get caught up in what's going on, but manage to make it all about themselves and spend their time squabbling about who likes who and why, and if only we'd spent that wasted time with Picard instead, because his storyline was excellent. Or with Dr. Crusher, whose storyline inexplicably petered out halfway through and got essentially resolved off-page at the end.