Star Trek The Next Generation #11: Gulliver's Fugitives Book

I am a very different person than I was back in 1990, the year this was published and I read it as a high school freshman. The world is different, too - or maybe it's not. Maybe this was a fresh take way back then, I don't know. All I know is that this story is just about every left-wing liberal trope rolled into one fairly predictable book. There are some interesting choices, for sure - the inclusion of First Federation characters, and... uh... yeah, that's about it. There's a blind engineer who's right alongside Geordi for no explicable reason, except she's actually better than he is. There's Picard, being stoic. There's Troi, bravely facing her emotions (seen it). OK, I kinda both did and didn't like the explanation on that one, which I won't divulge here to preclude spoilers. In any case, I think I'll be writing myself a note inside the cover so that, 30 years from now, I'll know not to bother.