BOOKS. stargate sg1: trial by fire (book 1)

i've recently begun reading stargate sg-1 novels, so i thought i'd start at the beginning with the first of the series. its been a very long time since i read a book based on a tv show (back in high school i read a couple x-files books that were pretty bad) so i wasnt too sure if they would be any good. they have published more than 15 stargate sg-1 novels so far and they dont seem to be slowing down at all, so they must be pretty good, right? well, it turns out that the first one in the series is pretty bad.
the book follows the sg-1 team as they investigate a new planet with two warring factions. the story is rather poorly written in that there were quite a few long passages where i didnt exactly know what was going on. the action and events are muddled and poorly written, with the stargate team itself doing things that are not in character for how they would really react. the show has 10 years worth of episodes, so there is a really really strong foundation of character traits and personalities that are set out. also, there are some pretty basic rules that the team has followed on all 200 plus episodes that this book quickly throws out the window in the first pages. one major problem with the book is that the team takes a normal person from our world, a professor, and brings her through the gate with them. this would have never happened no matter how knowledgeable they think someone might be about a particular culture. never! yet here they are bringing a civilian with them. and to top it off, the character is really really annoying! every scene of the book that the professor was in was hard to get through. there are times where she is in danger and i was actively rooting for o'neil to just let her die! the final resolution for the book was pretty vapid and didnt play much part in the set-up that had been created over the former 200 pages.
over all, a terrible start to the novel series, but i'm willing to try again on the next novel. fortunately there are different writers that take over the series, so as long as sabine c. bauer stays away from novelized stargate, then i'm sure i will enjoy them!