Star Trek: The Original Series: Crucible: Kirk: The Star to Every Wandering

David R. George III

Feb 2007 · Sold by Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

IN A SINGLE MOMENT

. . . the lives of three men will be forever changed. In that split second, defined paradoxically by both salvation and loss, they will destroy the world and then restore it. Much had come before, and much would come after, but nothing would color their lives more than that one, isolated instant on the edge of forever.

IN A SINGLE MOMENT

. . . James T. Kirk, displaced in time, allows the love of his life to die in a traffic accident, thereby preserving Earth's history. Returning to the present, he continues a storied career as a starship captain, opening up the galaxy. But as he wanders among the stars, the incandescence that once filled his heart remains elusive.

IN A SINGLE MOMENT

. . . that haunts James T. Kirk throughout his life, he preserved the timeline at the cost of his happiness. Now, facing his own death, the very fabric of existence collapses across years and light-years, forcing him to race against -- and through -- time itself, until he comes full circle to that one bright star by which his life has always steered.

Ratings and reviews

THE FIRE AND THE ROSE left me uncertain going into THE STAR TO EVERY WANDERING. The delay didn't help my confidence in the book any. Upon its release, I was shocked at the length--or lack thereof. Intrigued, I dove right in. David said in the foreward that he was striving for a different kind of book with STAR than he did in the others. He certainly achieved that; unfortunately, I'm not entirely convinced that it was to the book's benefit. Where the earlier books were all about the characters, STAR was much more plot-driven. While it was appropriate for the character of Kirk, I also missed getting that kinds of insight, that depth, that we saw in the earlier two books in the trilogy. While the reveal of the M'Benga numbers' purpose was something of a letdown, I think that the plot was even more of one. Thanks to the significant elements of time travel, at the end of the book nothing *happens*. Or worse, events unhappen--Picard never enters the nexus, never gets to experience that moment of family life. What that would change in the events in the later movies, I'm not prepared to say... but I think that's a fairly significant moment that's undone for no discernable reason. For all that, though, the very end of the book taints what enjoyment I got when the plot wasn't giving me pause. I understand why editor Marco Palmieri asked for the change. But I don't think that the ending used - completely contradicting the "meaning of the work as a whole" of "City on the Edge of Forever", the episode that was the impetus for the ending as well as the first book in the trilogy - was any more appropriate. I respect what David R. George III was trying to do with the CRUCIBLE trilogy. I'm afraid that he may have been handed an impossible task, though.

Magnificent.

Times

About the author

David R. George III has written more than a dozen Star Trek novels, including Ascendance, The Lost Era: One Constant Star, The Fall: Revelation and Dust, Allegiance in Exile, the Typhon Pact novels Raise the Dawn, Plagues of Night, and Rough Beasts of Empire, as well as the New York Times bestseller The Lost Era: Serpents Among the Ruins. He also cowrote the television story for the first-season Star Trek: Voyager episode “Prime Factors.” Additionally, David has written nearly twenty articles for Star Trek magazine. His work has appeared on both the New York Times and USA TODAY bestseller lists, and his television episode was nominated for a Sci-Fi Universe magazine award. You can chat with David about his writing at Facebook.com/DRGIII.