A Flag Full of Stars

Another gap filler before the movies. A very uninteresting story made more fun by the fact that it features a Klingon who lives in Stuy Town (where I used to live). I could forgive the weirdness of Kirk being married, the lack of Enterprise crew, the obsession with Kevin Riley because of how amusing that was.

i was still excited from reading the previous book in the lost years saga when i picked up this book. So naturally when I started to read I was expecting a story about Kirk, Spock and McCoy. However the book follows Just Kirk in a tale of his life as an admiral, the previous book had a happy ending and Kirk seemed to be adjusting well to his new Promotion. This book however takes of roughly a year after the previous one. The happy ending that had been delivered by "the lost years" had grown sour and once again Kirk finds himself lusting after a starship, ignoring his new marriage in order to refit the enterprise.
Where as Spock and McCoy are nowhere to be found.
The book seemed to drag and I dint not start to enjoy it till I had made it show more half way through the book. I enjoyed the storyline for G'dath and his students, I just wished that there were more familiar characters. All in all the story was a good read. Not a brilliant one. show less

The second in the Star Trek "Lost Years" saga, in which Kirk, married and starting a new life in Starfleet, meets a Klingon scientist on the brink of the greatest scientific discovery in a century, and must recruit an old shipmate, Kevin Riley, to protect the Klingon scientist and his discovery from Klingon agents. A good adventure, told with an eye toward exploring Kirk's growing pains.

A solo adventure with Kirk (and Riely, but does he really count?) with great moments including the launching of the saucer section of the retrofitted Enterprise and Kirk captaining the space shuttle Enterprise. Leads well into the first picture.