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The various stories play to the writers' strengths, and none ever gets a chance to outstay its welcome.
As well as an exercise in world building, these stories also chart the maturing of Kirk as a man, from the bold and sometimes brash Starship captain, through the more thoughtful Admiral, to the universe-weary figure weighed down with grief over the death of his son in the period leading up to Star Trek VI. ...
Some Trek novels set within the timeframe of the various TV series have felt like intrusions into the continuity; this collection adds to it in many positive ways.
