Book: ENT Rosetta by Dave Stern

I must preface this by reminding you, Faithful Reader, that I tend to enjoy Enterprise novels a bit less because I have never seen the show ( which I hope to remedy by early next year. There is a package sitting on The Dungeon Master's dresser which is suspiciously shaped like season 6 of DS9, which means that before too long he will be FORCED to buy me Enterprise! Mwahahahaha!)
Anyway...
This book was well written if a bit slow moving. It focuses of communications officer and translator Hoshi Sato. The Enterprise encounters a race that refuses to aloow the Enterprise to move forward- and that is about to find itself at war with the Thelasain Trading Confederacy. Hoshi, and the best translators in the confederacy, are unable to translate the mysterious aliens' message. Despite battles, a bombing, and a kidnapping, in the end, intergalactic understanding and diplomacy win, in the best tradition of Star Trek.