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Anyone who knows me, knows how much I don’t like Captain Kirk. He is a braggart who is too good looking for his own good and not as clever as he thinks it is. And I know that this view has been coloured by the actor who plays him, William Shatner, who is too loud and self-centred to have ever been Canadian.

So I was excited to see a book on dating advice based on Captain Kirk. I thought "this will be fun". And . . .

The author has clearly envisioned this book to be both tongue in cheek case study and a book for the Trekkie or Trekker.

And that is one of the biggest problems with this book. It doesn’t know what it wants to be. The author needed to commit to either being a complete encyclopedia of the women Kirk has romanced (in the vein of the Nitpicker’s Guide) or being a parody of the state of romance in Star Trek as viewed through Kirk’s eyes (in the vein of Sev Trek). Because the author has not made that choice, the book is not very satisfying.

To be fair, the author did try and group the women according to themes, the seducers, those with self-esteem problems, and the ex-partners. But in doing so he missed at least one very obvious one, Carole Marcus, the mother of Kirk’s only known son. There are other women Kirk has romanced, but they do not appear here. So if you are an encyclopedic Trekkie, this is not the book for you. And while there are smiles, this is not a laugh slap riot.

I found it not really worth it.