A review by octavia_cade
Star Trek Generations by J.M. Dillard

adventurous sad medium-paced

3.0

I saw this film many years ago, when it first came out, and to be perfectly honest I don't remember much about it bar the final crash and the major death. So in many ways, reading this novelisation was like coming across a whole new story. On the whole, I found Kirk's part of it more affecting. I've read a few TOS novels that are set in the twilight years of his career, and they've all got that underlying sense of loss and grief, as Kirk realises that he's gotten old, and that his days on a starship are numbered. I just find this a very compelling take on the character, and I'm far more interested in it than I am in the loss of Picard's brother and nephew, because let's be realistic here: they barely appeared in the series, and I've got no emotional attachment to them whatsoever. I feel for Picard, of course, because I do have an attachment to him, but I always got the feeling that, the very odd episode aside, he's not particularly close to his family. Which doesn't preclude his feeling grief for them, of course, but even so... Kirk's got the better part of this novel, I think.