Tales From the Captain's Table is a great anthology of first-person Star Trek prose. From Jonathan Archer of the Enterprise NX-01 to William T. Riker and the U.S.S. Titan, this book contains stories that span much of the Star Trek universe--Keith R. A. DeCandido even throws in a little Klingon, too.My favorite stories were Jean-Luc Picard, as told by Michael Jan Friedman, and Klag, as told by Keith R. A. DeCandido. Peter David, whose writing I sometimes dislike, put in a great piece from Elizabeth Shelby's point of view. Christie Golden adds her Voyager-based tale about Chakotay's coming of age, and Heather Jarman gives us a glimpse of Kira Nerys' time in the Bajoran Resistance, both of which were also written well.All in all, I had a great time reading this book. Although nothing sticks out in my mind as an absolute gemstone of literary work, Tales From the Captain's Table definitely provided a beautiful spectrum of Star Trek writing.