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Released: April 3, 2001 |
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Editorial Review:
The deadly and tyrannical Emperor Tiberius rose to great power in the Mirror Universe, but his failed attempt to seize the tantalizing advances of the ancient First Federation has always rankled him. In the more peaceful universe of the United Federation of Planets, Tiberius sees his second chance. And he has chosen a new ally to help him take it -- the counterpart for whom he has nothing but contempt, the man whose U.S.S. Enterprise™ made first contact with the First Federation: Starfleet Captain James T. Kirk.
Honorable, idealistic, and decent, James T. Kirk is many things Tiberius is not. But he is also a man deeply in love with his wife -- and Teilani is dying. To save her life, Kirk will compromise his ideals and enter into his most dangerous alliance yet.
At the heart of their quest, however, something else awaits: an object placed there for Kirk's eyes only by the mysterious aliens who appear to have influenced life within the galaxy over eons of time. A message from the Preservers...
Preserver (Star Trek) Reviews:
StarTrek Preserver 
2008-10-06 - As Captains Kirk And Picard Race To Save The Alternate Universe From Destruction, A Group Of Aliens Is Trying To Teach Kirk A Lesson About The Prime Directive.
Part VI of the Kirk Saga. Kirk Vs. Kirk. Pulse pounding entertainment from beginning until end.
2006-10-12 - I literally counted down the months in between Dark Victory and Preserver because I wanted to read this book so bad. It seemed like an eternity until it came out, but when it finally did back in the summer of 2000 I wasn't let down one bit.
I just reread the mirror universe saga and enjoyed it even more the second time around. Now, a little older and have a greater appreciate for excellent science fiction I felt the mirror universe saga is one of the greatest stories told. It rivals all Star Trek novels past and present. The showdown between Tiberious and Captain Kirk is excellent and gribbing until the end. The fate of Kirk's wife Telani is in this novel as well.
I loved it and still love it. Truly a great ending and beginning to the future adventures of Captain James T. Kirk. A definite must read!!!! 10/10.
It's O.K. Just Not My Favorite 
2005-08-17 - Out of the Shatner Alternate Universe trilogy, this is probably my least favorite. Something about it just wasn't that interesting, even though it was the conclusion of the trilogy. Good beginning, it keeps up with the momentum of the two previous books, but it slowly goes down hill until the sad and happy conclusion. Kirk loses something, yet something is also gained. The main problem I had with it was within the title itself. I just didn't find the Preservers interesting. Like I said, I have read worse, but out of this Shatner trilogy, this is the worst. Not saying it's bad, just not my cup of tea.
Good Conclusion To Mirror Universe Trilogy
2004-09-30 - "Preserver" completes the "Mirror Universe Trilogy", picking up right where the last book ("Dark Victory") left off. The year is 2375 and the story continues as Kirk and Picard (and various others) race against time to prevent not only the destruction of the Federation but the destruction of the universe.
If you have read the other two books in the series and they held your interest then this one is pretty much required reading. I was less than thrilled with the second part of the series but this book did not have many of the flaws that I felt existed in the second book. The action is still fast-paced and there is not always a great deal of characterization; the emphasis is much more on the general idea of bringing together many Star Trek concepts and weaving them into a tale of conspiracies. And that latter concept is really what this "Mirror Universe" saga really is for me: a sort of history-as-conspiracy concept. From the conspiracy of the mirror universe counterparts to invade their "neighbors" to a vast conspiracy that exists within Starfleet, including a sort of secret society or group, all the way to the ever-so-enigmatic Preservers, who have made everyone rethink their place in the universe. That is what you are essentially dealing with here: a conspiracy story and that probably, to a large extent, explains why people like this series. Conspiracy sells. Generally, people like a good conspiracy story; how everything we see and think we know is not quite what we really see and what we really know. What the authors have done is take these concepts and wrap them up in a Star Trek story. Overall, they succeed, I think, but as I have said in the reviews of the other two books in this series, the plot is really what you have to focus on. The characters and their motivations or their reactions to the events around them see to me to be simple cardboard that provides a static backdrop to one revelation after another for our heroes.
This book had some genuinely "cool" moments, like the chase/battle of the ships inside an asteroid but mixed with some decidedly "corny" moments, like the battle of the Kirks in deep space or the references to "Agents Dulmer and Lucsly" of the "Federation Department of Temporal Investigations. (That is "Mulder and Scully", anagrammed. This gives nothing away about the story at all, but it is such a perfect example for me of the kind of "play" that I find a bit disingenuous in a book steeped in the Star Trek mythos as this one is.) The usage of "psychohistory" (a decidedly Asimovian idea, as the authors recognize) was also a bit on the "stretching it" side for me. And this book continues in the traditions of the others, bringing up large and weighty topics (like contrafactual histories or predictive patterns in societal behavior or the notion of ancestral races and how that would affect beliefs and thoughts of various societies or the role of chance in history) and then essentially disregarding those topics. I realize those topics are not the point of this series, necessarily, but my issue is that the series throws so many things at you and then just leaves all those concepts dangling; there is no one set focus for the books except the general "bring as much Star Trek history together" plot that propels the action along. The focus of the action, of course, is on James Kirk and if you stop and think for a minute when reading the books, you start to ask yourself, somewhat cynically: "Okay, how much *more* could possibly happen to James Kirk?" In this case, that sort of questioning is bad because, at least for me, it shows that you stop caring about Kirk as a character and just keep reading to find out how he gets out of another situation or how he deals with his latest setback.
With all this said, I do feel "Preserver" is a satisfying conclusion to the series (with the exception, perhaps, of the fate of Tiberius) and the wrap-up at the end was, in my opinion, quite well done. I gave this book three stars, however, because in order to get the most of this book you have to read the previous two in the series and those I had given three stars, but I think this book shines above the others in a lot of respects.
3.5 stars for the story i heard on Audio CD. 
2003-06-29 - James T. Kirk and friends Vs Emperor Tiberius. This the 6th ST book done by William Shatner and friends (and book 3 of the mirror mirror trilogy) and it is a bit below the standards set by the first 5. I must say though that I haven't read the book, only the abridged audio CD. The chase part of the book was hard to follow. Shatner does a great job on all his audio CD.
If you read the other five, you have to read this one. Shatner and friends are the best story tellers in the ST universe. I hope they plan to keep the books coming, and include characters from all the series.
What about a trilogy called: DATA THE RETURN. Kirk and Picard go back to the time of Capt Archer and set out to steal a Borg Devise that could revive Data. ST has little continuity anyway, so what's the harm.
This review is more the Abridged Audio CD version.
