Good fun, especially if you are a Star Trek fan.

Ok lets first acknowledge the elephant in the room. This is an Autobiography written by and about a fictional person. That's how a non Star Trek fan would view this. However for fans, especially my age, this was a wonderful book and addition the ST Uni. We all know the different events in James Kirk's life. We've viewed the episodes hundreds of times. His autobiography fills in the details around those events in such a way that it just feels so natural.
I expecially loved the details of his youth, his relationship with Sam. His first time off planet living with his mom.
This is a MUST read for all fans of the original series and ... the greatest hero to come out of Star Fleet Academy.

If you have watched the series and the movies, there is no additional information really, except for his early life.

Pretty easy read.

The Autobiographies of Star Trek captains by David Goodman is one of the nerdiest, loveliest things I've come across in a good long while. For the uninitiated, they're fictional biographies of the Star Trek captains we all know and love written from the perspective of the character. So far, Goodman was written one for Captain Kirk ad later Captain Picard, and both are great for fans of the franchise.

I read the followup to this book (The Autobiography of Captain Picard) before this one and enjoyed that one a little more. Maybe it's because I was always a bigger fan of The Next Generation over The Original Series, but it also felt as if Goodman was more comfortable with the format and material on his second go-around, as the references are much deeper. But there's still a lot to love in the Kirk autobiography, a lot of great details and stories from a character we've known for 50 years, across two TV shows and 7 movies.

I really want Goodman to keep doing these, so check it out if you like Star Trek. It's a pretty easy and relatively short read, but highly entertaining.

Very enjoyable book. I'm not a Trekkie and my favorite series was the Star Trek: Next Generation. But I have seen the earlier episodes and have always enjoyed them. The book humanizes Captain Kirk and ties his history together very nicely, with the series, the movies and additional information to flesh out his character. I was surprised by the photos at the end of the book (it's a pain in the neck to jump ahead on an e-reader so I don't). They were great.

A fun, light read! It is a clever weaving together of the many episodes of Star Trek TOS and the subsequent films starring the original crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise. The story fills in many gaps in the timeline of Jim Kirk's life (with some fanciful deviations) that give a good explanation of the adventures from Kirk's perspective. Many of the stories are short snippets of the longer stories in the TV shows and movies, but - if one knows the stories already - cry out for more depth. I have the sense that Captain Kirk would put more volume to his recollections, but the book would then necessarily be too ponderous.

A great read for any Star Trek fan!

This book was so frustrating.
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Yes, I know that the book is somewhat fenced in by a show that started in the late 1960s and movies that were made mostly in the 80s, but there were so many cringeworthy moments that I seriously considered dnf-ing it a few times.
I did appreciate that we got some more details on Kirk’s experiences on Tarsus IV and I liked the Afterword “by” Spock, but mostly, this book was a miss for me.