In these science fiction books, extraterrestrial beings are sympathetic, horrifying and everything in between.

Whenever Steven Spielberg looks to the skies and ponders whether intelligent life is lurking out there in the cosmos, we tend to get a cinematic classic. "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" and "E.T.

The episode begins with a cold open, in which aliens called Malcorians have discovered that Riker (Jonathan Frakes) was living among them, surgically disguised as a Malcorian. What makes this episode ...