Reviews

Kirk: The Star to Every Wandering by David R. George III

kgagne's review against another edition

3.0

The closing to the Crucible trilogy, this third book, focusing on James T. Kirk, didn't tie into the two others very closely. In fact, except for a flashback to the episode "City on the Edge of Forever", I don't think Kirk interacted with Bones or McCoy at all. Mostly it was a time-travelling adventure centered around his time in the nexus, from which he emerged only to die in Star Trek Generations. The new background regarding the development of his relationship with Antonia, an Idahoan hippiater, was interesting and gave some new depth to the character. But otherwise, I felt the book was too much about temporal anomalies and too little about the man.

sbogdanich's review against another edition

4.0

I really enjoyed this series but I think this author is maybe the worst of all time a writing female characters. Every single one of them is beautiful, brilliant, intuitive, supportive, emotionally mature, and fun in bed. It got very frustrating over the course of three book where they talk a lot about these women characters. Otherwise I liked all three stories, I liked how they fit together and that they covered the entire lifespans of Kirk, Spock, and McCoy.

joshknape's review against another edition

1.0

I read this Star Dreck novel because I didn't feel up to reading anything more challenging. Two reading days wasted. It's definitely not one of the better Star Dreck novels. Besides the writing skill being unimpressive, the plot is a cop-out: the back cover promises that Kirk will deal with his angst over losing the love of his life, but it's largely about his convoluted plan to clean up some temporal damage he accidentally caused while helping Jean-Luc Picard in the movie Star Trek: Generations. The only idea that interested me is a minor plot detail. Many different Star Dreck authors have used the Guardian of Forever, and have all had their particular ideas of what happens to it after the television episodes. This author posits the most interesting idea I've yet seen: the Guardian of Forever is gone, the Klingons having destroyed it because they feared its use as a weapon.

Anyway, the book is going into my recycling bin. Not recommended.

birdkeeperklink's review against another edition

2.0

This was all right. It had some action, which was nice. It was a little confusing at two different points, but it soon straightened out.

The most frustrating part was how slow it went. It dragged severely. Probably a hundred pages could've been cut, and then it would've got a third star from me.

caffeine_books's review

adventurous emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

Enjoyable book, however I found myself liking the other two books in the series much more (McCoys being my favorite). I felt a bit disappointed that we didn’t get to know Kirk  through this book like we got to know Spock and McCoy on a deeper level. Kirk remained two dimensional.