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Star Trek: Captain's Glory by William Shatner with Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens
01/12/2006 . Source: Sue Davies 
pub: Pocket Books/Simon and Schuster. 350 page hardback. Price: £14.99 (UK), $25.00 (US), $34.50 (CAN). ISBN: 0-7434-5343-9. Buy Star Trek: Captain's Glory in the USA - or Buy Star Trek: Captain's Glory in the UK  check out website: www.simonsays.co.uk , www.williamshatner.com and www.reeves-stevens.com
There was a song a few years ago called 'Where's Captain Kirk?' Need they have asked? He is alive and well and being the loveable sexist Denny Crane on 'Boston Legal' on the Living Channel in the UK.
Seemingly conscious of his potential sell-by date, Shatner has included on his bristling CV, novel writing and has paired up with the reliable team of Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens for some time now. Its Bill's name on the cover that sells the books, though. Of course, its fanciful to think that Shatner taps his pencil impatiently on the desk and barks out 'Report on Chapter 1!' But why not?
Forty years on from the original 'Star Trek', the other night I was treated to a re-run of a shirtless Kirk and this novel on paper at least maintains the illusion that somehow nothing has really changed.
Who cares who wrote it because this is a cracker of a book with a plot that shoots across the galaxy at warp speed as if pinged by a giant elastic band. This is a coming together of a multiplicity of plots and plot parts which the most ardent Trekker can identify and pin on a collecting board.
I really enjoyed this book It helps to visualise the good 'ol crew, held together by string and glue. This is the final (maybe) get-together of the original crew of the Enterprise: Kirk, Bones, Scotty and Spock. The newer guys get in there, too, and the book embraces all the subsequent history of the Enterprise 'verse.
You don't really want to know about the plot but in a few words: Kirk-hero. Everyone else in big trouble. 'Captain's Glory' is Kirk's personal quest to find Spock (again), work out what is trying to wipe out the human race (again) and be an all round hero-guy (again, again).
Slickly satisfying and if only a film version were possible it would make a marvellous finale for the team. Alas, many of them have already passed on into a greater universe.
This licks the edge of the Trek universe and stamps down on its face. It makes war, it makes peace and there are a few laughs, too.
So here's Captain Kirk. Alive again. Still loving. Still fighting. Thanks, Bill. We love you, too.
Sue Davies
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