Ugh! Help me recall the title of a Kirk novel

[jayrath]

It's not part of the Shatnerverse. Kirk is idle at Starfleet, I think retired, and somehow meets a cadet or very young officer at a bar and begins an affair. If I recall correctly, he and Carl Marcus finally decided it wouldn't work out, offstage.

He and the cadet/young officer then have an adventure in space, they come back and he feels betrayed -- there was some fleet conspiracy she was a part of to get him to go on the mission. It was a good, necessary mission, but he feels manipulated.

Then he finds out that the affair began before she was ordered to engage in the conspiracy.

I keep mixing it up with "Ashes of Eden." Anyone able to help? Thanks!

 

[TheUsualSuspect]

Might be The Fearful Summons which I think came out about a year before Ashes of Eden.

 

[Paris]

That sounds like Teilani's arc from Ashes of Eden. I know you said it wasn't...but it still sounds like that story.

 

[Relayer1]

Might be The Fearful Summons

I've blotted out the plot, but I do remember it being very very bad.

Possibly the worst book I've read...

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Might be The Fearful Summons which I think came out about a year before Ashes of Eden.

Definitely The Fearful Summons. What's disturbing is that after all of these years I remember how the ensign propositions Kirk.

 

[Therin of Andor]

... somehow meets a cadet or very young officer at a bar and begins an affair. If I recall correctly, he and Carl Marcus finally decided it wouldn't work out, offstage.

Then Kirk decides he is actually straight and takes up with Carol instead.

 

[jayrath]

Then Kirk decides he is actually straight and takes up with Carol instead.

That would have made the novel much more interesting.

Thank you, everyone! Yes, I was thinking of "The Fearful Summons." I appreciate your help!

 

[JoeZhang]

... somehow meets a cadet or very young officer at a bar and begins an affair. If I recall correctly, he and Carl Marcus finally decided it wouldn't work out, offstage.

Then Kirk decides he is actually straight and takes up with Carol instead.

"Jim... did something happen between you and my brother Carl?"

"no..noo.. I need to leave for a 5 year deep space mission right now".

 

[Stevil2001]

... somehow meets a cadet or very young officer at a bar and begins an affair. If I recall correctly, he and Carl Marcus finally decided it wouldn't work out, offstage.

Then Kirk decides he is actually straight and takes up with Carol instead.

"Jim... did something happen between you and my brother Carl?"

"no..noo.. I need to leave for a 5 year deep space mission right now".

Well, this is my new headcanon.

 

[EnriqueH]

I remember enjoying "Fearful Summons", but I was also around 16-17 at the time when the book came out and I picked it up.

 

[Therin of Andor]

I remember enjoying "Fearful Summons", but I was also around 16-17 at the time when the book came out and I picked it up.

I, too, read it when it first came out. I don't recall much of it (often a bad sign), and there was some fan excitement that it was by Denny Martin Flinn and he was using some material at the beginning of it that was originally planned to be the prologue of his ST VI script (ie. Kirk rounding up the crew).

But I don't recall hating it.

When I started to join BBS discussions, there seemed to be a lot of fan hatred for it. But there was also much hatred for Diane Carey's "Red Sector", which I had loved and still remember with fondness.

 

[Stevil2001]

Even as an undiscriminating 16-year-old, I recognized the terribleness of The Fearful Summons.