 Trekkkieguy's tribute to the original Star Trek TV series & movies featuring sound clips, book reviews, memory wall, image gallery & more! |
Trekkkieguy's tribute to the original Star Trek TV series & movies featuring sound clips, book reviews, memory wall, image gallery & more! |
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ISBN: 0-671-65817-4
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By: Julia Ecklar A freak shuttlecraft accident - and suddenly Captain Kirk and most of his senior officers find themselves adrift in space, with no hope of rescue, no hope of repairing their craft, or restoring communications - with nothing, in short, but time on their hands. Time enough for each to tell the story of the kobayashi Maru - the Starfleet Academy test given to command cadets. Nominally a tactical exercise, the Kobayashi Maru is in fact a test of character revealed in the choices each man makes - and does not make. Discover how Starfleet Cadets Kirk, Chekov, Scotty, and Sulu each faced the Kobayashi Maru . . . and became Starfleet officers.
It's very interesting to journey back and visit these people when they were cadets at the Academy. Although just when you get really interested in one story, it ends and you're back to the main story! It's actually 5 stories in one: The main story with all characters in the shuttle then there's 4 mini back stories dealing with how each character (except McCoy) handled the Kobayashi Maru test. Each story was easy to get involved in and I found myself not wanting any of them to end. Chekov's story is the longest and most detailed and we discover Chekov was a cadet filled with self-doubt and had a hero-worship of Captain Kirk. July 2, 2006: I just finished re-reading this novel and I found that I agree with my rating of 4 stars. I enjoyed this story and recommend it to anyone wanting to find out a bit about the early careers of Kirk, Scotty, Sulu and Chekov. Sulu's and Chekov's stories had the most detail and I enjoyed them more than Kirk's and Scotty's, although it was interesting to find out how Kirk "cheated" on his test as we learned he did in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
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