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Summary: Shatner Gives the Crew One Last Compelling Adeventure!
Review: Yes, ladies and gentlemen, William Shatner has written what I would proclaim as a piece of fine science fiction and Star Trek literature. The story begins with a great mysterious/emotional awe as it opens with Spock at the grave of his fallen friend James T. Kirk. Then, the story sky rockets as Mr. Spock recalls their last adventure in the final days of the beloved James Kirks life! The story starts with Kirk reliving a simulation on Tycho VI where he lost his girl friend and relives a challenging moment with arch-villian Androwar Drake. In the end Kirk awakes from a simulation and drags on his last day virtually hopeless until a new young lady enters his life. A half Romulan/Klingon hybrid she leads Kirk and virtually gives a desperate Kirk hungary for a last piece of action hope. Kirk's friends think he is crazy but Kirk does not listen. Instead he gets involved with the young women and leaves Starfleet to aide her in defense of her planet Chal. This young woman named Telani gives him the Enterprise after Kirk learns his arch-enemy Androwar Drake becomes the CiC of the Fleet and plans to blow the ship to dust. So, Kirk returns with the Enterprise and old friends Scott to the planet! But that is one half. Meanwhile Checkov and Uhura go on a mission to find out Klingon's are selling weapons of mass destruction. While there both Checkov and Uhura run into a rogue agent of Star Fleet Intell and get ditched and left to die until Captain Sulu rescues them. Then the crew goes to the new CiC and the old gang along with Spock and McCoy are assigned to hunt down Kirk! Well, in the end the two sides meet in epic battle that only the reader will have to find out! Shatner blows the fans away with a great book! Long life James T. Kirk!
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Summary: Praise to Shatner
Review: I own the hardcover of this novel and I returned to it recently. People often say that an author should write what he knows and who better to do so than someone who was there at the beginning. Mr. Shatner gives all of our original series favorites intermingling with guests from the series along with new characters. I loved the tension between Sulu and Checkov and Uhura (Sulu defending his position as a Starfleet captain while Checkov and Uhura defend Captain Kirk). After resigning his commission, Kirk does what he has always done: help. There are surprises aplenty in this great book which sets the stage for Shatner's future novels.
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Summary: A real ending to an excellent saga
Review: Do you think that star trek VI The Undiscovered Country wasn't good enogh ending to the original star trek series and films? If you dit, I must recommend this novel to you. Although a bit too centered around the character of Kirk, this book gives room to all the regulars, when ST:TUC centered almoust completely around Kirk, McCoy, and of course Spock. The book has a wonderfull motion picture kind of storytelling going on, wich is characteristic to all the star trek books written by William Shatner and Judith & Garfield Reeves-Steevens that I've read. The book has an epic feeling to it, and when you combine that to the excellent characterization and to the plot that explores many aspects of the lives of the crew of the starship Enterprise, finally ending in an insightfull ending of the whole TOS movie era "as only Shatner can tell it", you have nothing less but a definite must-read. The overuse of Kirk is the only problem, but then again, nobody complained about "All Good Things...", even if Picard was the only character satisfyingly portrayed in that last episode of TNG. If you like TOS one bit, read this. And also don't forget the other star trek books by the same authors.
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Summary: Long live William Shtner and Captain Kirk!
Review: Just when you thought it was the final voyage of the original Enterprise crew , and Captain Kirk, you were wrong!!! Not only does this book show some fascinating insight from Shatner in regards to Captain Kirk's persona, it also brings the original Enterprise crew together to help defeat Kirk's enemy Androvar Drake! The novel also deals with Kirk's battle with the aging process, and how he feels his time will finally be over that is until he meets the seductive Teilani who thanks to some good writing from Shatner is indeed very beautiful, and the woman to die for! But there is still more to come from the rest of Shatner's novels! A must for die hard trekkies or Kirk fans!
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Summary: William Shatner CAN write after all...who knew???
Review: After reaching the end of my list of books to read, I stumbled upon 'The Ashes of Eden' quite by accident, and against my better judgement, I picked it up and began to read (I mostly avoided it because Shatner had written 'Trek V: The Final Frontier' easily the WORST of the Trek movies...). I MUST admit I was captured by this tale from page 1. It takes place after the events in 'Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country' and quite possibly the worst thing that could happen to Kirk does, one of his arch enemies in the Federation becomes it's military head. Kirk resigns his commission and ends up with Teilani (who makes a comeback in his later books as well) a Klingon/Romulan hybrid who Kirk falls madly in love with. At first I thought that Teilani was the 'bad guy' so-to-speak, but that isn't the case. A few high placed members of the Federation are desperate to find a secret cache of doomsday weapons stored on a little known planet called, Chal. This planet is even more amazing because it is rumored to reverse the aging process of its residents. Well take a wild guess where Kirk ends up?? He reluctantly becomes involved with his former crew (remember he resigned his commission...?) but those lightning-fast captain reflexes come in pretty handy in many places and in short, Shatner has given us a great story to whet our appetite for more Trek. Clearly this is a cut above the average Trek fare that is available out there, in fact ALL of Shatner's follow-up Trek stories are superior to most of the novels out there (you can chock that up to his collaboration with Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens'). 'The Return' is another fantastic story--in fact probably his best yet. If you wonder what happened in the events immediately after Star Trek: Generations, 'The Return' answers that with a truly amazing tale which also gives us the origins of the Borg and how V-Ger is involved... I'll forgive Shatner his monumental failure with 'Trek V' because his novels seem to be VERY worthwhile Trek adventures and great additions to the Trek Universe.
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Summary: So that's what happened
Review: I always enjoy the stories that fill in the missing pieces of Star Trek history. It is unfortunate that the current steward of the franchise, His Highness, Rick Berman, ignores these opportunities.
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Summary: Star Trek - Ashes of Eden
Review: This is a marvelous book. The book is about Kirk's last months in Starfleet, him resigning, leaving Carol Marcus, and taking the newly decomissioned Enterprise to a Klingon-Romulan planet known as Chal. Besides that, the plot is engrossing and a non-stop thrill. I couldn't put the book down and had in read in less than two days. Bravo William Shatner.
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Summary: Forever Young
Review: William Shatner returns again to the Star Trek saga, avoiding retirement! Although the films may have placed the character of Kirk on hold, The Ashes of Eden pick up where the on-screen story concludes. Brace yourself for a Shatner story unlike others you may have read, for who else knows the character of Kirk better than William Shatner!
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Summary: Good! Couldn't ask for more!
Review: I really enjoyed this book. I liked the way Shatner weaved all of the old members back together for one more trip and battle across the galaxy!
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Summary: Shatner nears maturity
Review: The Ashes of Eden is a strange, overlooked piece of the Shatner oeuvre. Critics attacked it for its surreal tone, for "trite dialogue" and "fantastic situations." Philistines. In retrospect, Ashes can be considered the first evidence of Shatner's fascination with Arabic literature: in particular, the works of Mafouz. This would later flower fully during his Mongolian/symbolist novels, but Ashes is the first taste of his Eastern musings. The irony of the text is fine: Shatner writes of a a character, "Kirk", whom the reader identifies with Shatner. But this "Kirk" is a dialectic opposite of the Kirk of common memory: this is a brutal, vicious, catastrophic Kirk. This Kirk is not OURS; it is a demonic being, an occurrance of sheer other. The book's weaknesses include a penchant for metaphysical theories that go nowhere, and the plot sinks halfway through when the reader realizes the book is utter tosh.
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