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Editorial Review:
A sequel to Star Trek: Generations follows a deadly alliance between the Borg and Romulan Empire in which their key weapon becomes the miraculously resurrected Captain James T. Kirk, and the crew of the Enterprise is called together in an ultimate battle.
The Return (Star Trek) Reviews:
A review of the audiobook 
2009-01-23 - The audiobook lasts about 3 hours and is read by William Shatner.
I admit, I picked this up on a whim - the fact that it was read by Shatner himself was a big plus. Shatner is nothing, if not interesting. His book is much like the man himself (at least his well-known public persona) - lots of action, bluster, bravado, noise and Shatner's well-known and unique speaking style.
This book takes place immediately after the events of the "Star Trek: Generations" movie. If you haven't seen the movie lately, don't fret. Shatner uses it as a launching point only and goes on his own way. Of course, Kirk is featured prominently throughout, but it's an entertaining listen. Three of the movies are tied together in a neat little bundle (Movies 1, 7 & 8) enjoyed it during my commute for a few days.
Star Trek 7.5: The Return 
2008-09-25 - Why oh why was this not turned into a movie??? This is a fantastic story, the best Trek novel I've read so far. It blends between ST Generations & First Contact effortlessly. The only question I asked myself is (forgive me for being picky) "how does the USS Monitor/Enterprise get back to Federation Space again?" Did they fix the transwarp drive? It never tells you! We are left to assume that (obviously) they got back. Otherwise, a faultless story!!!
I highly recommend this book to any fan of either TOS or ST:TNG
The Return
2008-07-17 - James T. Kirk is dead right? Nope, he didn't die alone. Don't forget in The Final Frontier he did say, he would die alone. He "died" with Picard standing there with him. Therefore I see where he was going. Despite some of his writing seeming a little on the corny side, it was still a great book and took a lot of imagination. I just don't see how the Borg would've cooperated at all with the Romulans and help to bring a Human back to life. Not to mention the Borg Dogs, that was a little... strange.
Much better than expected...
2008-06-09 - Okay, I confess-when I first sat down with this book, I wasn't really expecting much. I had picked up a used copy very cheaply, and was just looking for some light reading. My initial impression was that this was going to be a book waaaayyyyy off the Star Trek "canon", and that the authors weren't really going to be able to pull off the plot at all. Boy, was I wrong! Although it is still true that the book isn't really "canon", it probably should be! The writing itself is well-done, the plot isn't as out of place as I had imagined at first, and winds up quite well, with a decent amount of action. This could well have been made into a movie...
The Return is a great story.... as long as you don't like TNG 
2008-04-07 - I actually enjoy both TOS and TNG so I was kind of in the middle on this book. Captain Kirk is one of my favorite characters. I also couldn't stand how he was killed in "Generations". So when I recently started reading Star Trek novels this book was at the top of the list.
The strengths of the book are what I consider to be great story telling by William Shatner. I won't spoil it for those that haven't read it but he gives the Borg a familar past. Which is worth the read. Very fast pace book that keeps you guessing. McCoy also makes a great cameo in the book. Shatner has always been able to write him great. To bad he is only around for a few pages. Exciting climax to the story that will keep you reading. I read the last 70 pages of the book in one night because I just couldn't put it down.
The weaknesses all center around the Next Generation. Picard was written fairly well as was Dr Crusher but the rest I didn't really relate with. Data was written like he was a child. I understand the emotion chip was screwing up about this time, but he was like a child... even some of his dialogue. As far as intellgence goes I believe he is the smartest character in the Star Trek universe. So that I didn't get. Geordi and Worf had very little depth at all. Another thing is that Kirk was also always one step ahead of all the members of the Next Generation cast whether it be in combat against them or when he was coming up with the plan on how to save the day. I have heard a couple of critics say that it is his book so of course he is going to save the day. However my response to that is Star Trek's success was not based on just Captain Kirk but all the characters same with TNG, DS9, and Voyager it was the team working together. For a Star Trek book to be great, in my opinion, it has to follow that same pattern. Another issue that I would have with the book is that even though it was written before First Contact came out, if you read this after you see that movie it is not going to make a whole lot of since because according to Shatner Kirk pretty much destroyed the Borg before First Contact. I don't know now that I am writing about this it might be 2 1/2 stars but I'll still round up. Overall on its own without taking Star Trek Canon into account it is good read.
I enjoyed the book and so will you if you are a Kirk and a fan of the original series. If you mainly became a fan with TNG and beyond then I don't think you will get a big kick out the this book.
Grade: B
