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Review title: Mary Sue syndrome
Product review: This could have been a very good Star Trek novel. The plot is engaging and the alien culture-building is excellent. Unfortunately its one flaw is a fatal one. The very annoying Dr Wilson ruins every scene she's in, and in the fashion of a Mary Sue she's in almost every scene. Cut out the author's pet character and give her part of the story to the others--especially Uhura, who is reduced to a supporting cast role in what is supposedly her story--and this would have been one of the best of the TOS novels, but as it is it is nigh unreadable.
