I've tried to review this book a couple of times now, and each time, I've had trouble. I'm caught between my nostalgic self and my analytical self - or, if you prefer, childhood and adulthood. Ultimately, I think I have to break down what has changed about me as a person - and what hasn't - to really define what it is about Imzadi that troubled me. I became a Star Trek: The Next Generation fan sometime in 1991, when my Dad turned on the TV and I watched part of the summer repeat of "Data's Day."...

I remember watching Star Trek with my dad when I was a kid. It would come on after school, and I loved it. The adventures, the crazy escapes, the close calls... It was good stuff. I had SUCH a crush on Will Riker when I was younger. Not baby-faced Riker, but more mature, bearded Riker. Man I loved him. (And to this day, I love a man with facial hair. But that's beside the point. LOL)As much as I loved the show, I'm not much of a tie-in fiction reader. I love Star Wars too (yeah, I swing both way...

I'm almost embarrassed to give this, a Star Trek novel, five stars, but I am compelled to go back every few years and read it, so I guess it must be pretty good. It might be because I am something of a romantic and whenever I start to feel the need for a good love story, this is the one I pick up! I loved The Next Generation, it was my favorite Trek, but I've never read any other novels in this genre. Every time I've tried, I have found that the author's ideas about extrapolating the characters'...

My personal favorite Star Trek novel of all time!!! And I believe that if I have to choose only one novel of all that I have read, this one has to be my favorite novel at all too. SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY This book has it all... drama, action, romance, mystery, science fiction, time travel, alternate realities, etc......well you couldn't ask for more!!!When I read the synopsis in the back cover (back then, in 1993), while judging if I'd buy the book or not, I got amazed.And when I read the b

2.5Despite having seen, I think, every episide of TNG when it was on, I never got into reading the various novels. Thgouh I don't really do a lot of expanded universe stuff as a general rule. But this was picked for a group BotM, so I decided to give it a go.I will say that it started well enough, despite the fact that I sort of cottoned on to the probably plot in the first few pages. But I liked seeing some of the alternate future, with Captain Crusher doing the Picard tug at his jacket, and Co...

My favorite Trek novel ever (and of course made me a die-hard Imzadi shipper). I have it in paperback...and hardcover...and audiobook...

The opening and ending of Imzadi is a solid time travel story, but the great majority of this book concerns Riker and Troi's first meeting and the beginnings of their relationship and is very poor. Imzadi is filled with the worst romantic cliches and is unfortunately a very sexist and bad look for Riker who seems to take a "no actually means yes" approach to seduction and Troi who seems overly intellectual seemingly only to contrast stronger with the instinctual Riker in this book and lacks a lo...

4.0 stars. Nobody does Star Trek better than Peter David and this is another superb example. It is what you get when you take a richly defined universe (star trek) and pair it with a writer with true chops.

I had two reasons to look forward to this book: the author had been recommended to me, and I yearned to learn more about the origins of the Riker/Troi romance. The author's nonlinear storytelling and the time travel elements of the book were creative enough to keep me reading until the last page. He has skill at crafting plot and action. The relationship as written here, however, fell completely flat for me. Their story was filled from start to finish with bad cliches, current gender stereotypes...

This was supposedly a huge bestseller back in the day (1992). I gotta say, I don’t really get it. I think I missed the boat here.A while back I went looking for people’s favorite Star Trek novels and then found some of them in my local used bookstores. This was one of the three I ended up picking up, and as my first Star Trek tie-in novel, I could probably have done better. Or, maybe I’m just missing the cultural context. It’s thirty-years old at this point, and it was published during the middl...

Peter David is a master. His treatments of other franchises, such as Marvel's cinematic universe, were amazing, and he blew me away with this Star Trek novel that spans great lengths of time and space. The only thing preventing me from giving this a perfect score is the content, specifically the sex and excessive profanity.EDIT: Not only was the amount of sexual content higher than I remembered, but the edition I read this time had such tiny print, it was rather hard to read.

Back in 1996 this was No.3 of year out of 145 books but was my Top book of the year.Set around the most important thing in Star Trek History The Guardian of Forever (the Joan Collins Star Trek Emie award ) An Imzardi is beloved in Beltazod Diana Troy & Riker lovers across time even wrong time

2.5 stars. I know this is a favorite Trek novel for many, but it just doesn't inspire me. The main reason is that I couldn't see the relationship between Riker and Troi as transcendent. This is just a romance, complete with all the usual annoying tropes. Riker is just another hypermasculine guy doing and saying anything it takes to persuade someone into a physical relationship, and Troi, who should know better being an empath and psychology student, falls for it. I read this hoping I would see a...

Several times while reading Imzadi, I was completely surprised by where Peter David took the story. Unpredictable and always interesting, Imzadi is arguably one of the best Star Trek novels out there. In a recent edition of his article "Ten For Ward" at StarTrek.com, author Dayton Ward included Imzadi on his list of Trek novels for the new Star Trek reader. Imzadi was the recommendation of his fellow author David Mack, who said that “its ending is also one of the best I've ever read in a Star Tr...

I have loved Star Trek TNG since I was a kid. Counselor Troi is one of my favorite characters. This book would have made a really fun two-part episode. It draws on many of the themes that are so inherent to Star Trek, ethics, causality, and adds in a romance that persists across all of space and time.

Imzadi wasn't bad. It was a little bit cheesy, and it was written at a lower reading level than expected, but it contained a surprising amount of emotional punch for a book that is both pulpy and a cheesy romance. I'm sure that it's a crowd-pleaser for anyone who wants to know a little bit more about Riker and Troi's history/relationship previous to that portrayed in Star Trek: The Next Generation. Imzadi is entertaining, better-than-average Star Trek fan fiction, but I don't think that is has m...

This is a personal favorite. It was one of the few books in the world I have read more than four times. If you are a Star Trek fan and a fan of romance, action, adventure, and time travel, this book is for you. If not, your loss. I hold this book close to my heart because I love the plot. Can't say much for the writing except it is supreme for popular fiction. I love it! It is truly my guiltiest pleasure.

The best Trek fiction - TOS, TNG or other - that I've yet encountered. Very solid writing, tight plot, and excellent audio narration by Jonathan Frakes, i.e. Riker. The story provides some very interesting background on the much speculated about origins of Riker and Troi's relationship, going back quite a bit before their days on the Enterprise. The Guardian of Forever, which seems to come up as a favorite plot device in quite a bit of Trek fiction (and I mean, who can resist the allure of time

A long-time favorite. One day, I will probably have to replace my copy, and I will probably cry when that day comes. Even if it is a touch melodramatic at times, I love that it's a mostly complete history of their relationship -- and that it's one of the last ST novels sanctioned by Gene before his death.

20 years ago, (approximately) Imzadi was probably the very first Star Trek novel I ever read. I think it has held up well to time.I loved seeing the back story of Deanna and Riker. (Even though books are not technically canon). I also loved seeing a possible future from 40 years in the future. Great story and a nice romance to boot.