Captain's Glory

The indefatigable William Shatner reads his ninth Star Trek novel, written with the help of the Reeves-Stevenses. Few on planet Earth have an equivalent grasp of the Star Trek universe. Shatner not only knows the story lines intimately, he puts all the passion of his Kirk character into his reading. He makes no attempts to mimic the intonations of the other characters, many from later incarnations of "Star Trek," though he comes close with Scotty. The book is a well-written tale of a grand struggle between light and darkness, with the mythic Totality threatening the destruction of the United Federation of Planets. No one can be more counted on to save the Federation than Captain James T. Kirk. D.R.W. (c) AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine