Avenger (Star Trek)

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Summary: Shatner's text highly legible.
Review: With the utmost care, Shatner has chosen a typeface for "Avenger" which is both attractive and conducive to reading.

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Summary: A New Perspective on Star Trek
Review: Star Trek: Avenger is a fantastic novel, and a step ahead of The Ashes of Eden and The Return. The beleagured Federation gives new perspective as to just how fragile the Federation during a war time.

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Summary: This book was fantastic!
Review: I adored this book. Since I love Spock, it was a treat to read about him again. Besides the fact that I'm tired of Kirk dying and miraculously comin back, this book was amazing. It even touched on one thing few Star Trek books do - the friendship between McCoy and Spock. Vulcan's Forge touched that aspect, and Avenger mentioned it. I loved Spock's role in the story, but the ending started to get sappy. Luckily, McCoy turned it around and made some great comments! Love the sarcasm! Shatner wrote a great book, and I highly recommend this book for any Trekkie in need of excitement.

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Summary: Shatner does it again!
Review: An excellent book, as we have come to expect from the imaginative Mr Shatner and his co-writers, and a book that leaves me eager for The Spectre.

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Summary: Excellent.
Review: This book is the best one in the trilogy Shatner has written about Captain Kirk,(the first two being Ashes of Eden and The Return), and I must say it's definately the best. Although the beginning of the book was unbelievable, (an evacuation beam saved Kirk?), it quickly proved itself worthy of his other novels. Mr. Shatner has the ability to weave an intricate novel that makes you turn the page. He's quite a writer. I can't wait for his next Star Trek novel, Spectre to come out and I plan on buying it as soon as possible. One of the best Star Trek reads out there.

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Summary: Not a bad novel. but it just isn¿t as good as The Return.
Review: Full of high adventure and powerful drama, Star Trek: Avenger is an engrossing new Star Trek epic--and a moving tale of past memories and new hope that only William Shatner could tell. Not a bad novel. but it just isn't as good as 'The Return' And Scotty's continued absence jars a little. Kirk's friendship and team up with the young star-ship captain Christine MacDonald was interesting. It had a Obi Wan Kenobi - Luke Skywalker dynamic to it. As for Kirk's survival yet again? Shatner's explanation for these events was just that bit shy of implausible, a evacuation beam, just happens along. (The modern amswer to the life boat or escape pod no doubt) But regardless of that small quibble The 'Individual' Borgs that removed Kirk's nanite implants might have more than a little to do with those first encountered by USS Voyager in the Voyager TV series. Not a bad effort at all Shatner & Co.

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Summary: Crap Crap CRAP!!!
Review: Shater is so egotistical. Yeah right, like his fattness could have lasted with Picard for a second in a fight (The Return). Anyways, more ego trips for shatner in this book. It seems like he is trying to prove how great kirk is and all that...

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Summary: One of William Shatner's best.
Review: William Shatner did an excellent job in keeping me interested in this book. I couldn't put it down! If you have read The Return, then you have to read this. The best part of all is that Kirk and Spock are together and working with Captain Picard.

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Summary: QUIT YOUR WHINING OUT THERE, MR. SHATNER DOES A FINE JOB
Review: I AM SICK AND TIRED OF ALL YOU WHINERS OUT THERE. MR. SHATNER DOES A DARN FINE JOB OF STORY TELLING, IT SEEMS THAT IF YOU CAN'T PUT SOMETHING DOWN AS OLD HAT THEN YOU ARE NOT HAPPY. IT IS A STORY, A WELL WRITTEN ONE THAT IF YOU CAN USE YOUR IMAGINATION TAKES YOU AWAY FROM THE HUM DRUM LIVES MOST OF US LEAD. I READ THE BOOK ON A L.A. TO BOSTON FLIGHT AND ENJOYED IT. IT IS RARE THAT I RE READ A BOOK, BUT I FIND MR. SHATNERS STYLE LIKE THAT OF A FELLOW TRAVELER SPINNING A YARN THAT WON'T LET YOU GO. YOU WHINERS MUST BE THE SAME ONES THAT CRIED WHEN MR. CROMWELL PLAYED THE PART OF Z. COCHRAN INSTEAD OF MR. CORBIT. FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE YET TO READ THE BOOK, GO ON, BUY IT....

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Summary: How much longer will this go on?
Review: It's long been a rule of Trek fiction that only the TV shows and movies (except STV) are canon, but when you've read a lot of Trek, and then read Avenger, you find yourself saying "What a minute... what about "Federation" and "Time for Yesterday"?" Shatner/Reeves-Stevens does a decent job with humor (the EMH scenes were great) and tying story lines together, but the book was a disappointment after Ashes of Eden and The Return (which was how Kirk should have gone out). And Jim still lives. And lives... Where's Scotty? Does the Shatner/Doohan feud continue through fiction? If barely breathing McCoy can still show up...Well, there's two more books coming. Who knows? Maybe Khan will show up? Kirk v. Borg Queen? The mind boggles.