It's fast-paced and easy to zip through, which is about the best that can be said. It's not that the book's bad, but there's not a lot of meat here of any kind. Yeah, it's a kids' book, but the antagonist is particularly thin, and it's too easily wrapped up at the end. Also, I know that kids' books often find ways to get the parents out of the way pretty quick, but you can't tell me that Benjamin Sisko of all people would watch a ship with his kidnapped child zoom away from DS9 and go, essentially, "Eh, let's sort this out diplomatically." I don't think so - he'd be following that warp trail in less time than it takes me to write this review.

I remember reading another one of these junior DS9 novels, and he was an extraordinarily indifferent parent there as well. Now, Star Trek has its share of useless parents but trying to frame Sisko - of all people! - that way beggars belief.