Star Trek: Star Trek: Academy: Collision Course (Paperback)

from lycomayflower

This is a story of teen-aged Jimmy Kirk and how he ended up on the path to becoming Starfleet captain and legend James Tiberius Kirk. There's at least one other Star Trek novel which follows this same premise, though that story is very different. Yet, however many permutations of young!Kirk we ge...

from burnit99

Most of William Shatner's other Star Trek novels are written in the same pretentiously grandiose staccato as his acting style. But this one actually isn't badly written; my speculation is that by this time Shatner's co-writers have wrested more creative input from him. I found the storyline intri...

from whjensen

Go back in time to a James T Kirk is a...Well, he's a young punk. And Spock is struggling through an identity crisis of who he is - Vulcan or human. Throw them together and join old friends 20 years before you knew them. Shatner's book, Collision Course, defies other Star Trek books (and most lik...

from lycomayflower

This is a story of teen-aged Jimmy Kirk and how he ended up on the path to becoming Starfleet captain and legend James Tiberius Kirk. There's at least one other Star Trek novel which follows this same premise, though that story is very different. Yet, however many permutations of young!Kirk we ge...

from Kiri

I enjoyed the humor and the "back story" proposed by this novel. I really laughed over the final few chapters. There's a moral .. but it would ruin the tale to tell it. Also I do suspect we have some Section 31 in this book as well, even if it is not named as such. Original reading: Read from Dec...