Collision Course (Star Trek Academy)

Shatner’s writing partners, Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, have written fiction and nonfiction much respected by Trek fans, as well as other genre novels, TV scripts and nonfiction on military matters. So while they’re meticulous about Trek details, they include the kind of boot camp and Academy scenes that hark back to novels about West Point and Annapolis that were “boy’s books” staples from the 1920s to at least the 1950s. So there’s double the nostalgia, within a smart and sometimes witty tale for any generation.

William Shatner has written several Star Trek novels with the Reeves-Stevens — in fact, it’s a kind of sub-genre, creating the “Shatnerverse” that starts with the established Trek universe and goes its own way from there. This novel is self-contained but designed for at least one sequel. However, Shatner has expressed his unhappiness with how Pocket Books is promoting it, and suggests he may not write another. Whether this will prevent the Reeves-Stevens from taking the story forward is, as Spock would say, “Unknown, Captain.”

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