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Just finished watching Trek IV after many years. Still a fun movie. I think I used to like it better though. My feelings on Trek are kind of fluid lately, and I'm enjoying the older stuff better than I used to. III, while far inferior in effects, has really grown on me, and II is still fantastic. Together, II, III, and IV are a wonderfully well-knit trilogy. But I think I like them in that order now as well.
Just finished reading Best Destiny. It gives us an idea of Jim Kirk as a kid, interacting with his father George and Capt. Robert April, first captain of the Enterprise. I feel the book was really good, but there were two problems for me. 1) the ending is rather weak compared to the excitement of the middle, when young Jimmy and several Starfleet officers aboard a small scientific vessel are attacked by pirates and have to still come off as victors in the end. The ending, immediately post-Undiscovered Country, where we see how the events of the book have affected old Jim, are rather anti-climactic. 2) Young Jerk, I mean Jimmy Kirk, while an interesting character, is not the same as old Jim Kirk. That's the point of the book, as the events of the little miscreant's life in the book shape his character drastically and alter his nature so he becomes a much better person. Still, I have a very hard time believing that it's the same person, and that he had so completely changed by this little misadventure. Still, it was a fun read. I can recommend it.
Next book: Federation, where Kirk and Picard met before they got stuck in the Nexus.