Elena. commented on Star Trek: Double Helix Omnibus by Christie Golden (The Next Generation, #51-56)
Like a strand of mutating DNA, a deadly conspiracy winds its way through the Alpha …
Star Trek: TNG: Double Helix -- Book Four: Quarantine by John Vornholt ⭐⭐⭐
As with the previous novel in the series, we do not learn anything new about the virus and nothing more than one tiny kind of new thing about its creator, which for me is a bit of a let-down in the middle of this series. We do however learn a bit about Tom Riker. The great thing about Trek novels is that we can re-visit characters that did not get much screen time before. Tom is one of them. Here we follow him from his assignment on the Gandhi to a mission that will change his life. We also meet a certain Maquis crew, which I enjoyed a lot. I'd like more of that.
The story wrapped up a bit too fast for me and I am not satisfied with the ending. I wished we had learned more about Tom's process to come to his ultimate decision as well as about his life on the Gandhi before that. We got to know too much about certain Helenites and Cardassians, but way too little about our heroes. Bummer.