false 912673 2 <I>If you think you know how it all began, think again...</i><P><P>Young Jim Kirk wants nothing to do with Starfleet, and<P>never wants to leave Earth. In the summer of 2249, he's a headstrong seventeen-year-old barely scraping by in San Francisco, haunted by horrific memories from his past.<P><P>In the same city, a nineteen-year-old alien named Spock is determined to rise above the emotional turmoil of his mixed-species heritage. He's determined to show his parents he has what it takes to be Vulcan -- even if it means exposing a mysterious conspiracy at the heart of the Vulcan Embassy, stretching to the farthest reaches of the Federation's borders. There, a chilling new threat has<P>arisen to test the Federation's deepest held belief that war is a thing of the past and that a secure future can be forged through peaceful means alone. But it is in San Francisco, home to Starfleet Academy, where that threat will be met by two troubled teenage boys driven to solve the mystery that links them both.<P><P>In time, the universe will come to know these young rebels as Captain James T. Kirk and Mr. Spock...two of the Federation's greatest heroes. Yet before they were heroes, they were simply conflicted teenagers, filled with raw ambition and talent, not yet seasoned by wisdom and experience, searching for their own unique directions in life -- a destiny they'll discover on one fateful night in San Francisco, when two lives collide, and two legends are born.<P><P><I>Star Trek: Academy -- Collision Course sets</i> the stage for an exciting new era of Star Trek adventure, and for the first time reveals Kirk and Spock as they were, and how they began their journey to become the Kirk and Spock we know today.<P><P> 3022056 16 10 2007 Star Trek: Academy—Collision Course total:88|5:29|4:34|3:16|2:8|1:1| 88 346 156 23 3 0 false false Sat Mar 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 10 21:51:21 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 18 21:54:44 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 0 0 false false Fri Mar 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Mar 07 07:38:28 -0800 2009 Sat Mar 07 07:41:48 -0800 2009
However, that doesn't take away from the story. Young Spock and Jimmy Kirk meet pre-Sta...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jul 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 10 14:18:41 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 13 07:18:35 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Aug 16 19:26:19 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 16 19:32:33 -0700 2009
One particularly enjoyable aspect of this is you get Spock'...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Aug 04 18:15:27 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 04 18:25:36 -0700 2008
The idea of a traumatic, nasty incident in Jim ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 03 11:58:28 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 03 12:05:00 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 06 18:09:10 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 06 18:11:29 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Feb 14 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 15 17:06:43 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 15 17:08:06 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sun May 03 21:40:22 -0700 2009 Sun May 03 21:49:17 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Wed Jun 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 14 02:58:50 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 24 03:22:54 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Thu Jul 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 10 08:49:40 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 10 08:49:40 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Nov 18 10:47:43 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 18 10:47:58 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Sat May 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 24 21:12:20 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 11:06:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jan 31 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 02 15:12:41 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 01 01:36:48 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sat Feb 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 01 08:05:38 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 07 12:18:08 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Fri Aug 28 17:13:58 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 28 17:14:34 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 12 06:41:30 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 12 06:41:30 -0800 2008
I don't know how this fits in with the established Star Trek chronology. but I don't care. I found it enjoyable.]]> 4 0 false false Tue Feb 19 06:17:14 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 19 06:18:51 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Wed Sep 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 18 07:39:23 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 17 10:21:56 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu Jun 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 17 19:59:43 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 26 23:55:26 -0700 2008 ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=912673