Best Destiny

This was interesting - we see teenage, moody, pain in the ass Jimmy Kirk (just like in the reboot Trek movie), but with his father. George Kirk takes him on a mission that happens to have him see and go on board the newly built USS Enterprise, commanded by Robert April. And it's hardly a spoiler to say that stuff goes wrong, he sees the light - and his future - and grows by the end of the story. It was an interesting story based on when it was written, before the image I have in my head from the first rebooted crew movie where we see the lost Kirk acting out before he meets Pike. Here, April kind of fills that role, but more so the mission and the bad guys.

James Doohan narrated this one - geez, sometimes, the voices he does are so great, it made me …

Okay, I'm sorry. I've tried, but I couldn't even bring myself to read more than thirty pages of this drivel. The psychological depth could maybe impress a very dim twelve-year-old. The dialogue seems to have been rewritten over and over again until it has become pure creative writing: there is now nothing but conflict.

The worst part is that Carey (and apparently Gregory Brodeur, who credits himself as a co-author in the foreword) try so hard to be brooding and foreboding in every other paragraph. Apart from simple and honest bad style (“With an aggravated frown he stepped sideways”, “Not even his two closest friends could decipher how deeply he meant those words”) there are monsters such as these: “The head of every experienced person on the bridge suddenly shot around at her, as though she had cursed a kitten—then killed it.” And: “His angular brows drew tightly inward, and …