The story was so juvenile, with definitely no more substance than a bad YA novel. The characters were beyond silly. A marine biologist who immediately volunteers to fly a spaceship (whose pilot was killed in a crash into the sea) on a mission? To return an alien “animal” to its home world? To help out two three -eyed aliens who breathe methane and happen to show up and realize they can’t fly the “gooey” home because they have a different mission? So of course they do the logical thing and “deputize” our idiotic biologist as a certified “Space Ranger” so he’s eligible to fly the spaceship. Puh-lease.
I love Sci fi but this? And the narrator was terrible, overemphasizing nearly every word of the inane dialogue. If you’re 11 or 12 go for it. Otherwise read some Isaac Asimov. . .