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Title: Star Trek Best Destiny by Diane L. Carey ISBN: 0-517-13905-7 Publisher: Random House Value Pub Pub. Date: 29 January, 1995 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.23 (13 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A Portrait of the Captain as a Young Man
Comment: One of the "prequels" to the Star Trek universe created by Gene Roddenberry, Diane Carey's BEST DESTINY introduces the reader to the Enterprise at her birth. Commanded by Robert April, the Enterprise is on her "test-run". April's security officer, George Kirk, brings along his troubled son, Jimmy, for the ride.
STAR TREK fans will enjoy experiencing the first voyage of this famous ship, at this time still a carefully-guarded military secret without identifying insignia. The "mission" to Faramond is intended to be a short run to test the engines, but when the Kirks take a shuttlecraft to study a cosmic phenomenon, a run-in with space pirates begins young Jim Kirk's first adventure in space.
Also of interest is the look into Kirk's past. The story is told in flashback, as a late-career Kirk reflects on his wild adolescence and the single event that changed his life and set his destiny in the stars. For those less technically-inclined, basic STAR TREK physics (such as inertial dampers) are explained from the viewpoint of young Jimmy (read: lay terminology!)
A definite recommendation for Trekkers, Trekkies, and those who just wish they were!
Heather Foutz
Rating: 4
Summary: A good read, James T. as in teenager...
Comment: In all the Star Trek lore that's been written over 30 plus years, it's rare to see books that delve into the past of the primary characters in anything other than alternate realities or brief flashbacks. More of this book takes place in Kirk's teenage years than in the "present" (Kirk's last voyage before the Enterprise "A" gets mothballed). I hate reviews that ruin good books by giving away major plot points, so I'll resist. Overall, the flashback scenes really make the story while the current events are less interesting. The end of the "present" events are anticlimactic compared the the end of the flashback events, but kudos to the Authors for further fleshing out characters from earlier books: Captain Robert April (first Captian of the original Enterprise), Commander George Kirk (Jimmy's father), and Kirk's right hand man Drake (great comic relief). McCoy & Spock sadly are reduced to small roles, but the book is, after all, a story about a young Jimmy Kirk, and in that respect it does an admerable job.
Rating: 4
Summary: Star Trek: Best Destiny
Comment: Star Trek: Best Destiny written by Diane Carey is a flashback novel of James T. Kirk. This book mixes the past with the present in the Trek genre.
James T. Kirk is seen as a teenager wanting to show his father that he can and will be worthy of wearing the Starfleet uniform someday. This is the first adventure we get to read about where James T. Kirk plays a sugnificant role. There is personal danger, self-discovery, and unparalleled adventure.
We read about James T. Kirk about to retire from his long tenure with the fleet. Now, events draw him back to a youthful adventue with his father George and Captain Robert April. A part of the galaxy only left in James Kirk's memory, a world called Faramond, mysterious in nature Kirk takes us back when he was sixteen years old.
Although he was estranged from his father he admired what his father did for him, but Captain Robert April changes James Kirk's life forever. This is a good Father-Father image/ son book. The adventure now only in James' memory they face life or death... but a glimpse of the future sets James T. Kirk on a Trek of his own... best destiny.
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Title: Shadows on the Sun (Star Trek) by Michael Jan Friedman ISBN: 0671869108 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 01 July, 1994 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Captain's Blood (Star Trek) by William Shatner, Judith Reeves-Stevens, Garfield Reeves-Stevens ISBN: 067102129X Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 01 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: STAR TREK: STRANGERS FROM THE SKY CASSETTE by Margaret Wander Bonanno ISBN: 0671647180 Publisher: Audioworks Pub. Date: 15 September, 1987 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Star Trek: The Lost Years (Star Trek: The Original Series) by J.M. Dillard, Leonard Nimoy ISBN: 0671686321 Publisher: Audioworks Pub. Date: 01 October, 1989 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Vulcan's Forge (Star Trek) by Josepha Sherman, Susan Schwartz ISBN: 0671009273 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 01 March, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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