I'd heard good things about this one, so decided to give it a read.
It was *all right*... takes place immediately after Star Trek: Nemesis... but there was a lot of self-referential masturbation... "Doctor Beverly Crusher couldn't help but be reminded of that <s>episode</s> time when her grandmother died and that dude in the candle became her lover..." tons of stuff like that. Many, "Hey, remember that time" moments.
It is just barely "ok." Would have been a single episode during TNG's run. Books are supposed to be bigger than that.