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Trek: Captain's Peril by William Shatner with Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens Pub: Pocket Books/Simon and Schuster. 335 page hardback.
Price: £14.99 (UK), $25.00 (US) and $39.90 (CAN). ISBN: 0-7434-4819-7. Check out website(s): 'It's worse than that he's still alive...Jim'
In this new book, 'The Captain' takes the other Captain, Jean Luc Picard, to Bajor for a vacation. Kirk's idea of a vacation involves orbital skydiving through Bajor's atmosphere. This is very nearly fatal as he unfortunately bought the suits from Quark on Deep Space Nine.
So
a little bit of action wrapped up with Agatha Christie's 'Death on the Nile' then.
Kirk is still very much the action hero albeit with a few more aches and pains.
Shatner is happy to acknowledge the passage of time even if he is not ready to
relinquish the reins of command. The authors having no need to establish the characters of its main leads because they are now so familiar to us should perhaps concentrate on making the plots more substantial. Both of the main characters behave rather predictably. Kirk preferring to get on and do whereas Picard is more ruminative. The plot is not substantial with some fairly predictable twists and turns. The sub-plot is disappointing taking a long time to get to the point. Once
again, we are back in ghost territory where the story uses the publicity surrounding
'Star Trek' to 'piggy-back' onto the bookshelves. So many books are produced with
the TV tag-line that is hard to pick out a truly worthwhile effort. This novel
really does not add anything to the sum total of 'Star Trek' knowledge. If you've read old Shatner's previous efforts and you are happy with it then by all means buy it but there are books out there more worthy of your hard-earned cash. You may even be able to find them in your local bookshop. However the chances are, if current trends continue, that there will be more and more laziness with regard to stocking the shelves. If our local WH Smith is anything to go
by, all you will find this Christmas is TV series novelisations, Terry Pratchett
and fantasy novels in varying quality. Well that's OK, I like TP and he is rather
a one-man production line - but what happened to variety? Sue Davies
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OTHER REVIEWS - December 2002
Other Reviews: December 2002 Books Speed Of Dark by Elizabeth Moon Geomancer (Volume One of The Well Of Echoes) by Ian Irvine Peace by Gene Wolfe - Fantasy (Gollancz) - SF masterworks reprint. New York Blues (Volume 2 of The Virex Trilogy) by Eric Brown Narcissus In Chains by Laurel K. Hamilton To Hold Infinity by John Meaney T2: Infiltrator and T2: Rising Storm by S.M. Sterling Burning Brightly (The Legendary Story Of Herald Lavan Firestorm) by Mercedes Lackey Dark Light (Engines Of Light: Book 2) by Ken Macleod The Isle Of Battle (The Swan's War Book 2) by Sean Russell Star Trek: Captain's Peril by William Shatner with Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens Wild Cards: Deuces Down edited by George RR Martin Videos and Music Once More with Feeling - Buffy the Vampire Slayer- Original Cast Album The Tomorrow People 2:2 - A Rift In Time
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Captain
Kirk is alive and well and churning out books. Apparently a bit
miffed at being killed off in 'Star Trek: Generations', Mr Shatner
has co-written, with Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, three books
already about the reincarnated Captain.
Alone
with Picard in the Bajorian desert, Kirk starts to reminisce about
an incident in the early months of his command of the Enterprise
when Spock has decided to ask for a transfer. Getting to their intended
destination they find that there has been a murder and as the sole
representatives of Starfleet are determined to get to the bottom
of the mystery.
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