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The Captain's Peril (Star Trek: The Original) (Hardcover)

by William Shatner (Author) "THEY'RE KILLING THEIR OWN PEOPLE!" Fists clenched, Glin Dukat stared in frozen disbelief as the deadly actinic-blue blossoms of micromatter grenades flashed across the distant..." (more)
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  • Hardcover: 335 pages
  • Publisher: Star Trek (4 Nov 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0743448197
  • ISBN-13: 978-0743448192
  • Product Dimensions: 22.1 x 14.6 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 328,553 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Kirk and Picard face danger together in the latest installment of William Shatner's bestselling series. The Dominion War is over. The Federation is at peace. What better time for two legendary starship captains to set aside the demands of duty and simply take some well-deserved time off. But when James T. Kirk and Jean-Luc Picard arrive on Bajor to dive among the ruins of an ancient sunken city, they find themselves in far from relaxing circumstances. The small group of scientists the captains have joined suddenly discover their equipment sabotaged -- isolating them from Deep Space Nine and from any hope of rescue -- as a murderer stalks them, one by one. Cut off from the people and the technology on which they have always depended, Kirk and Picard must rely more than ever on their own skills and resources -- as well as on their growing friendship -- to solve the mysterious killings and, at the same time, save one of Bajor's greatest living treasures. With time running out and Picard missing after a diving disaster, Kirk must search his memories of the past for the solution, plunging him into a harrowing personal journey that reveals the beginning of his path from young Starfleet officer to legendary galactic hero. From the shores of Bajor's Inland Sea to the welcoming arms of a seductive and deadly alien commander intent on making Kirk her own, The Captain's Peril is Captain Kirk's most personal, and his most extreme, adventure yet.


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William Shatner is known to millions as the actor who played Captain James T. Kirk throughout the original Star Trek television series and several movies. He is now a bestselling science fiction author.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Shatner goes back to basics and it's one of his best., 21 Dec 2003
By David Grady (Sutton Coldfield, England) - See all my reviews
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After the grand space operatics of William Shatner's previous Trek novels, which weave galaxy-hungry villains with familiar characters from all corners of the Trek franchise, he comes back down to earth (or, more accurately, Bajor) for this, his seventh Trek novel. Giving himself a much smaller canvas on which to paint, Shatner nonetheless crafts one of his best stories yet - a relatively short, tense murder mystery that strips away all the Starfleet hardware and unnecessary cross-over Trek cameos and proves once and for all that Shatner can create classic Star Trek adventure.

Kirk and Picard, vacationing on Bajor shortly before the events of "Star Trek: Nemesis", find themselves caught up in mystery - a group of Bajoran scientists are being killed one by one. Cut off from Deep Space Nine and without their 24th century technology, the two captains must work together in a situation where everyone is a suspect.

The premise is simple, but brought to life superbly by Shatner's terse, no-nonsense narrative style and his supremely confident grasp of the lead characters. Having played Kirk for so long, it's hardly surprising that he writes him better than anyone else, but his Picard rings just as true - I could easily visualize Patrick Stewart speaking the lines.

This small-scale, more character driven story was obviously not enough to flesh "Captain's Peril" out to novel length and there is a parallel story (which alternates chapters with the main plot) in which Kirk relates to Picard the tale of an early mission aboard the original Enterprise. It's just as well-written but doesn't grip the reader in the same way as the main plot, perhaps because it's not really what we (or I, anyway) buy the Shatner novels for.

The novel ends on a slight cliffhanger, a small taste of what we can expect from Shatner's next novel, "Captain's Blood", which, it seems, will see a return to the grand space opera of his past novels. So "Captain's Peril" may just be a vacation between more epic novels, but it's no less enjoyable for it.

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