The Captain's Oath

Star Trek: The Original Series

De: Christopher L. Bennett

Narrado por: Robert Petkoff

An all-new novel based upon Star Trek: The Original Series, featuring Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the Starship Enterprise!

©2019 Christopher L. Bennett (P)2019 Simon & Schuster

Best reader

The story jumps between past and present. Sometimes it's hard to keep up, but it is still interesting.

What I love this, is the narrator. I have tried several star trek audiobooks, but Robert Petkoff seems to be the best. Not trying too hard he nails TOS character voices naturally.

Great story telling!

Sad that many in some other reviews found this book “woke” and don’t finish it, it was in my opinion one of the strongly best written books of TOS, and unless your so far right wing, you will likely have no idea what wokeness anyone is referring too, just 2 great stories following Kirk pre and post Enterprise.

Very piercing look into the human condition

I remember looking at the reviews of this book and being amused at the Trump supporters who felt that this novel was a rehash of liberal indictment against right-wing values. What they don't remember is that Star Trek has always been a boundary pusher for what might be considered liberal values. The Vulcan IDIC concept, infinite diversity in infinite combination, is one of the Federation's key tenets, and is represented by the many alien races that comprise it. Humans, Vulcans, Caitians, Rigelians, Andorians, Tellarites, and many more races working together to create a civilization more than the sum of its parts. The acceptance of refugees into Federation space is a key factor in this story, as well as the utterly alien nature of these refugees as well as the need for understanding to bring about peace. There is no blatant indictment of right wing values in these concepts, and if you as a reader think there is, then that speaks volumes about you as a human being, and the kind of values you hold dear and furthermore, if you feel criticized by this story or this writer, it might behoove you to reflect upon what we as sci fi fans want for the future. Ask yourself why you were sensitive to the topic, or offended.

Review of The Captain's Oath: Star Trek

Great set of Star Trek stories connecting characters from 2 separate commands of Captain Kirk. The same good comforting feelings were experienced as when watching episodes of the original series. Very good narration that kept the characters distinct from each other without trying to imitate the original actor's voices.

A great adventure

It was read very well that it wasn't very hard to picture the Star Trek crew. I would listen to it again

WELL-DONE!

I really enjoyed the tribute to the original series. Would like seeing the author add more stories. Nice to hear more about Mitchell and Kelso. Seeing Kirk and Spock work together early was nice, as was the story with Kirk and McCoy. Star Trek: The Original Series has always been my favorite - Without that, there's no 50-plus years of a an entertainment legend. Solid narration, too! How about an encore? :-)

Just OK

Reading and character definition was very good. Story was just ok and even a bit boring at times.
The time period jumping was not that smooth and almost annoying to me.

Good story, but the structure was distracting

I thought the overall story was good, but the jumping back and forth in time was distracting and unnecessary. A linear telling of the events would have made the story much more enjoyable. Having said that, if your tolerance for constant shifts in story timeline is high, then you can enjoy it like I did.

My only critique

Lots of good star trek stories. Lots happen in this book and each story in it could've been its own book. otherwise I loved it

needs to learn names

I like the narrator, but he regularly mispronounces names the sacagawea, you know Lewis and Clark's guide, he pronounces saka gewaya. it drives me nuts that his producers do not correct him. this isn't the first book he does this. he mispronounces regularly star trek names as well. somebody say something!