This is probably one of the worst Star Trek Novels that I have ever read. First, it got off to a slow start, now that's ok but if it is gonna start slow, it should be longer than 275 pages. Second, nothing much happened, well not as much as most authors put in THEIR novels, and the worst part was the way in which Kirk decided to give up the Enterprise and start teaching? Any good Trek fan knows that AIN"T GONNA HAPPEN! And, the way in which Kirk loses the Enterprise is already a movie anyway. And it's a good movie too. I don't reccommend this book. I'm sorry, but I just didn't like the end, or the way it was written. Good day.