Star Trek: Next Generation - Gulliver's Fugitives
                    Author Keith Sharee
           An audio book read by Jonathan Frakes

                      Reviewed by Sue

The Enterprise is on a mission, to find out what happened to the
USS Huxley, a star ship which went missing 10 years previously.

Near the place where the Huxley vanished they find a planet known
as Rampart. This had been settled by colonists from Earth several
hundred years before and forgotten about.  Picard contacts the
planet's government to ask if they know anything about the Huxley
and is met by a wall of hostility, even of disbelief that the
Huxley ever existed.

A security team comes up from the planet to search for what they
call 'contraband'. The crew of the Enterprise are at a loss to
know what they're looking for until they discover that on the
planet Rampart, books and any works of the imagination are banned.
So the planet's mind police look on the Enterprise as a source of
evil and sedition, because of its extensive library, especially
when Picard explains that they have every book on board, even
those that have been banned on Earth in the past.

The government and mind police begin to wonder if the Enterprise
is in league with their own rebels who are trying to keep
literature alive on the planet by distributing pages among the
people. A scuffle breaks out. Picard is taken hostage and beamed
back to the planet. Data, Riker and Troi follow to try and rescue
him. Troi meanwhile has had a peculiar dream, about some strange
aliens, which is troubling her. Could there be a connection? And
does any of this have anything to do with the Huxley?

This was a short (90 mins) but excellent story with a number of
twists and turns. It is embellished with sound effects giving a
good atmosphere and Jonathan Frakes takes on the different
characters well.

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