Tales From the Captain's Table (Star Trek (Unnumbered Paperback)) Review

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Tales From the Captain's Table (Star Trek (Unnumbered Paperback)) ReviewThe "Captain's Table" was an interesting concept back in 1997 and still has some value today. This is different from the 1997 version, for it's all in a single book. This anthology features captain's that have come up through the past few years of Trek lit. I like the concept, each captain paying for their drink in this bar with a story. In the 1997 series, the main captains of Trek told stories that sort of defined them and their captaincy. Now, each captain tells a story that isn't necessarily true and doesn't always define them.
I thought there were some good stories, then some stories that really pulled this anthology down. "Pain Management" featuring Elizabeth Shelby, "The Officer's Club" featuring Kira Nerys, and "Iron and Sacrifice" featuring Demora Sulu were the best this book had to offer. The authors of these stories not only took on something that explained part of the respective series and events, but they added depth to these characters. They were great stories, great writing, really kept me flipping through the pages.
There were others that sort of dragged on for me, those being the "An Easy Fast" and the Klingon tale. They were good, but they could have been better. Their best moments came at the end when the moral was revealed. The same can be said of Picard's post-Stargazer story, "Darkness." Great beginning, touched a little on the Stargazer book series and it's characters after everything is over. The story, due to it's shortness, was a bit bungled and the situation seemed out of place. Yet, the ending was great.
What made this a rather average book though were the "Tales" that shouldn't have been included. Comedy is nice, humor is great, but over-the-top ... no. The worst story by far was the Archer tale. Perhaps someone thought it was cute to spawn an obviously fake, children-humor tale about Archer and Porthos, but it plain fell on it's face. I didn't find it funny and thought the start of the tale, with Archer and Shran speaking and such was great. The writing and quality from there was simply lost. The next offender was the Riker/Troi honeymoon tale. Again, why so much humor? A little mixed in is great but this didn't feel like Star Trek at all. The characterization was way off, the idea of Riker and Troi involving so many people in their honeymoon activities and the focus being on another character so much ... no, we didn't need this. What Riker got out of the adventure left me rather baffled. The Chakotay tale had some good moments but if you've read Christie Golden's work, you've basically got enough Chakotay to last you a lifetime.
Perhaps the anthology format hurt the "Captain's Table." I agree, it needed a follow-up to account for the changes in Trek since 1997. I think individual novels for some of these characters, where stories could have been developed more and better plots chosen for some would have been better. I'm not sure if I would recommend it but there are some stories worth reading. It doesn't feel like all the authors were on the same page as to what this concept was supposed to be about. It wasn't, back in 1997, about comedy and stories that may or may not be true. I was sort of disapointed. I hope if there's another anthology, we'll have fewer captains and longer, more developed, stories.
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