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Star Trek: The Academy--Collision Course (Star Trek) | 
 enlarge | Authors: William Shatner, Judith Reeves-stevens, Garfield Reeves-stevens
Publisher: Star Trek
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 46078
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Edition: Reprint
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 416
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4.1 x 1.2
ISBN: 1416503978
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781416503972
ASIN: 1416503978
Publication Date: October 28, 2008
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If you think you know how it all began, think again...Young Jim Kirk wants nothing to do with Starfleet, andnever wants to leave Earth. In the summer of 2249, he's a headstrong seventeen-year-old barely scraping by in San Francisco, haunted by horrific memories from his past. In the same city, a nineteen-year-old alien named Spock is determined to rise above the emotional turmoil of his mixed-species heritage. He's determined to show his parents he has what it takes to be Vulcan -- even if it means exposing a mysterious conspiracy at the heart of the Vulcan Embassy, stretching to the farthest reaches of the Federation's borders. There, a chilling new threat hasarisen to test the Federation's deepest held belief that war is a thing of the past and that a secure future can be forged through peaceful means alone. But it is in San Francisco, home to Starfleet Academy, where that threat will be met by two troubled teenage boys driven to solve the mystery that links them both. In time, the universe will come to know these young rebels as Captain James T. Kirk and Mr. Spock...two of the Federation's greatest heroes. Yet before they were heroes, they were simply conflicted teenagers, filled with raw ambition and talent, not yet seasoned by wisdom and experience, searching for their own unique directions in life -- a destiny they'll discover on one fateful night in San Francisco, when two lives collide, and two legends are born. Star Trek: Academy -- Collision Course sets the stage for an exciting new era of Star Trek adventure, and for the first time reveals Kirk and Spock as they were, and how they began their journey to become the Kirk and Spock we know today.
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 for the fan star trek classic November 16, 2008
It is a super novel all fans of star trek classic will read it with pleasure
 breezy and enjoyable, though flawed by plot contrivance November 1, 2008
Anything with a title like "Star Trek Academy: Collision Course" is not great literature and has no pretentions in that direction, but that doesn't justify slopping plotting or characterization. This book suffers from both, though more of the former than the latter.
On the characterization front, the story glorifies Jim Kirk, which, considering Shatner's one of the writers, should surprise no one. I think the annoying POV quirk that sometimes makes his own brother think of Jim as 'Kirk' rather than the more logical 'Jimmy' is part of this. I also think Spock's portrayal is weighted too much toward telling as opposed to showing, but it can be lived with.
A more serious issue is the way the plot depends on Kirk and Spock being -- despite Kirk's street-smarts and technical aptitude, and Spock's scientific brilliance -- complete blockheaded idiots. It takes far too long for Spock to realize that his father might have been set up, and after the fifth ridiculous contortion of logic Kirk uses to justify his distrust of Starfleet, I was about ready to tear my hair out. But they're teenagers, so I suppose the idiocy is not as far-fetched as it would be during series canon.
My final objection -- and this one can't be explained away by general teenage insanity, since the people making this decision are adults -- is that during the climax of the story, the Starfleet ships (that are later revealed to have been in position around Neptune for several hours) wait and do *nothing* until the absolute point of no return, instead of doing something sensible and proactive, such as taking out the Orion ships the minute they fly up out of Neptune's atmosphere. That is the worst kind of deus ex machina plotting, and no vague talk about 'Project Echion' will justify it.
But if you can get past those flaws, the book is a breezy, enjoyable read. The pacing is good, the revelations about Kirk's past on Tarsus IV are interesting, and the subplot about his brother, Sam, is sadly all too believable. (Spock gets less development, though he does have a cute moment with a midshipman during the plot climax.) There are a lot of threads left open for a sequel -- the immediate villain was defeated, but the guy behind him is still at large -- and I care enough about what happens next that I will keep my eye out for the sequel at my local library.
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