Captain's Glory (CD audio)

From Publishers Weekly
An old threat in a new form, the Totality threatens to eradicate all life in the universe. Starships throughout the Federation are succumbing to malfunctioning warp drives, and shadow creatures are kidnapping key people throughout the Federation. In their own ways, Jean-Luc Picard, William Riker, James Kirk and Kathryn Janeway must figure out how to combat a nearly indestructible and endless enemy. Like any good franchise, Star Trek seeks to grab the attention of the widest spectrum of fans as possible. In that vein, the authors populate the story with characters from Star Trek, The Next Generation and Voyager. Shatner's voice captures the tension and energy of the scenes, which are also capitulated by the musical score and occasional sound effects. Shatner ably embodies the voice of Kirk, but his characterizations of Picard, Riker, Worf and several others are mediocre and pale in comparison to the actors who created them. Even fans of the show may become significantly lost in this abridgment without sufficient reading of previous Star Trek books.
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Audiofile
The indefatigable William Shatner reads his ninth Star Trek novel, written with the help of the Reeves-Stevenses. Few on planet Earth have an equivalent grasp of the Star Trek universe. Shatner not only knows the story lines intimately, he puts all the passion of his Kirk character into his reading. He makes no attempts to mimic the intonations of the other characters, many from later incarnations of "Star Trek," though he comes close with Scotty. The book is a well-written tale of a grand struggle between light and darkness, with the mythic Totality threatening the destruction of the United Federation of Planets. No one can be more counted on to save the Federation than Captain James T. Kirk. D.R.W. © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine