Star Trek: Best Destiny
By Diane Carey
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At sixteen, Kirk is troubled, estranged from his father, and has a bleak future. However, a trip into space with Kirk's father George and Starfleet legend Captain Robert April changes James Kirk's life forever, when a simple voyage becomes a deadly trap. Soon Kirk and his father find themselves fighting for their lives against a vicious and powerful enemy.
Before the voyage ends, father and son will face life and death together, and James T. Kirk will get a glimpse of the future and his own Best Destiny...
Diane Carey
Diane Carey is the bestselling author of numerous acclaimed Star Trek® novels, including Final Frontier, Best Destiny, Ship of the Line, Challenger, Wagon Train to the Stars, First Strike, The Great Starship Race, Dreadnought!, Ghost Ship, Station Rage, Ancient Blood, Fire Ship, Call to arms, Sacrifice of Angels, and Starfleet Academy. She has also written the novelizations of such episodes as The Way of the Warrior, Trials and Tribble-ations, Flashback, Equinox, Decent, What You Leave Behind, and End Game. She lives in Owasso, Michigan
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is one of my favorite Star Trek novels, particularly for its focus on my favorite Star Trek Character, James T. Kirk, as a teen, and his relationship with his father. It's a good extrapolation of what the young Kirk might have been like, well-written with lines I still remember decades later.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5The reviews for this Star Trek novel are mostly positive, but I'm afraid the plot and characterisations didn't work for me at all. Where was the humour, the banter, the adventure? Between a snotty teenage Kirk and a miserable middle-aged Kirk, I was almost bored to tears. And why, why must Kirk have been a terrible teen in order to become a first rate captain? Couldn't he just have been inspired by his father and awed by the concept of travelling through space? I got the impression from the series that Kirk had always been an intelligent man and an idealist, and Starfleet gave him a way to channel his natural talents - Gary Mitchell called him a 'stack of books with legs' after all - yet in this version, he's little more than an ignorant punk until a(nother) life and death voyage into space with his father sets him straight. Not strictly out of character, although Kirk suffers from yet another dumbing down, but done to death in a coming of age story.Kevin the teenager aside, the pacing is incredibly slow, only uniting past and (future) present in the last few chapters, and the secondary characters are clunkier than the pirate ship that knocks the Starfleet shuttle off course. I mean, come on, even for Star Trek, the faux-Aussie captain and his blockheaded second in command are laughably bad, and then we're supposed to take Kirk's own adolescent nemesis Roy seriously? He needs a smack upside the head and/or counselling (same for Kirk), not building up into an evil genius.On the technical side, even the writing failed to impress. Some of the purple prose would be more suited to a romance novel - Kirk's father has 'a flop of argumentative sienna shag' instead of unruly red hair, and Kirk's 'antique gold eyes' burn with 'taupe fire'. The foreshadowing is also rather clumsy, with young Kirk slowly getting the message that his father and Robert April are big, brave pioneers making the uncharted galaxy safe for future generations, etc. I'm not sure that the author(s) really like Captain Kirk, which could explain why they were rubbing me up the wrong way throughout (Spock would not have made a better captain), but then why choose to write a backstory for his character? Plodding and pretentious, Diane Carey's novel misses the charm of the original series, and turns young 'Jimmy' Kirk into a teenage nightmare.