Silly.
The above mentioned one-word review is accurate and would suffice but you deserve more if, like me, you are a big enough Shatner fan to spend one credit on this book. Beware: the story itself barely hovers over 80 pages. It has tons of errors that will make your inner editor's eye twitch and it could have been written by a high schooler.
Is it worth it? As a parody of William Shatner and his many fictional characters and as a provider of major fan service, yes, it's worth it. That aspect of it would earn a solid 4-stars from me. The story itself, as an actual factual science fiction story, that deserves maybe 1-2 stars. So I'm going to give the whole work a generous 3. Because it's fun. But if you don't know much about Shatner, or only know him as Captain Kirk, you won't get much from this book.
The blurb on the back cover is the entire story except for the last chapter. You seriously need only read that short paragraph and save yourself 80-pages of wondering how it ever got published.
William Shatner himself is basically a parody of... himself. Here we find him the only guest at ShatnerCon, a giant sci-fi convention centered around the work of the man. Some one-handed Bruce Campbell fans/terrorists show up and there's an extremely vague description of a Fiction Bomb which is supposed to delete memories of fictional characters. Sort of like Mandela Effecting William Shatner's work from the minds of the fans. There are also extremely vague references to some sort of network war where these bombs were used. Anyway, something goes wrong and the bombs instead make all of Shatner's characters he's ever played become real. It's William Shatner against ALL THE SHATNERS and he's helped only by overzealous fanboy Bob who has altered his body and voice box to become his idol, William Shatner.
We have every Shatner ever running around causing chaos. Interestingly enough Rescue 911 Shatner and Denny Crane provided the most humor for me. There's also T.J. Hooker (a show I've never seen), Twilight Zone Shatner, the singing/speaking Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds Shatner, Priceline commercial Shatner, even SNL Shatner, calling all the fans losers; literally every Shatner you can think of makes an appearance.
The most well-known of Shatner's roles, that of Captain Kirk, needed more to do than run around with a lightsaber. Kirk deserved a lot more action.
Another interesting side note: The deaths are pretty graphic and detailed but the one time sex is referenced and it's oddly rated G. The author says something like 'they did what Shatner would approve of'. I thought that incredibly strange given the descriptions of entrails and many deaths of random red shirt characters.
The end is dumb and honestly made no sense and is there to pad an already slim story.
I do, however, think Shatner himself would love this. It would work better as a movie and could work rather well CGI-ing all Shatner's characters in.
The above mentioned one-word review is accurate and would suffice but you deserve more if, like me, you are a big enough Shatner fan to spend one credit on this book. Beware: the story itself barely hovers over 80 pages. It has tons of errors that will make your inner editor's eye twitch and it could have been written by a high schooler.
Is it worth it? As a parody of William Shatner and his many fictional characters and as a provider of major fan service, yes, it's worth it. That aspect of it would earn a solid 4-stars from me. The story itself, as an actual factual science fiction story, that deserves maybe 1-2 stars. So I'm going to give the whole work a generous 3. Because it's fun. But if you don't know much about Shatner, or only know him as Captain Kirk, you won't get much from this book.
The blurb on the back cover is the entire story except for the last chapter. You seriously need only read that short paragraph and save yourself 80-pages of wondering how it ever got published.
William Shatner himself is basically a parody of... himself. Here we find him the only guest at ShatnerCon, a giant sci-fi convention centered around the work of the man. Some one-handed Bruce Campbell fans/terrorists show up and there's an extremely vague description of a Fiction Bomb which is supposed to delete memories of fictional characters. Sort of like Mandela Effecting William Shatner's work from the minds of the fans. There are also extremely vague references to some sort of network war where these bombs were used. Anyway, something goes wrong and the bombs instead make all of Shatner's characters he's ever played become real. It's William Shatner against ALL THE SHATNERS and he's helped only by overzealous fanboy Bob who has altered his body and voice box to become his idol, William Shatner.
We have every Shatner ever running around causing chaos. Interestingly enough Rescue 911 Shatner and Denny Crane provided the most humor for me. There's also T.J. Hooker (a show I've never seen), Twilight Zone Shatner, the singing/speaking Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds Shatner, Priceline commercial Shatner, even SNL Shatner, calling all the fans losers; literally every Shatner you can think of makes an appearance.
The most well-known of Shatner's roles, that of Captain Kirk, needed more to do than run around with a lightsaber. Kirk deserved a lot more action.
Another interesting side note: The deaths are pretty graphic and detailed but the one time sex is referenced and it's oddly rated G. The author says something like 'they did what Shatner would approve of'. I thought that incredibly strange given the descriptions of entrails and many deaths of random red shirt characters.
The end is dumb and honestly made no sense and is there to pad an already slim story.
I do, however, think Shatner himself would love this. It would work better as a movie and could work rather well CGI-ing all Shatner's characters in.
