Star Trek: The Return

I remember reading this years ago. Shatner's performance definitely elevates it. My only real criticism of the Shatnerverse is that its kinda self-indulgent. Kirk integrates into the TNG era way too smoothly and easily outsmarts the Borg, a threat he shouldnt even really understand. I appreciate that Shatner and the Reeve-Stevens at least pay attention to existing star trek lore. They could have easily just made it a TOS/TNG story, but they smartly roped in a lot of stuff from DS9. The USS Monitor is kinda interesting. Lower Decks eventually had a Defiant class USS Anamaxander, which is visually identical to how the USS Monitor is described here. Not really related, just kinda neat

Great book on Kirk's return. But I feel the audiobook is too condensed and therefore missing some parts-imo. On another note I wonder if since Spock plays such a big role Shatner ever gave a copy of the book to Leonard Nimoy to see what he thought of the story. All I can say is for me where Generations ends the Shatner-verse Trek story begins

Fantastic story! I had read this book years ago, and I decided to purchase this book to listen to while on a road trip. William Shatner brings life to this book with his narration.