I found this really entertaining. Which is strange in some ways - when watching the original episodes I tend to prefer the serious ones to the comedic, but after a run of angst-filled tie-in novels it was a great change of pace to have a Star Trek story that was more light-hearted. Basically, Kirk is assigned to the Enterprise, meets the gang, and things go continually low level pear-shaped as he gets off on the wrong side of nearly all of them and has to ferry round a vaudeville company to boot. In fact I was so entertained that I nearly gave this four stars, and was frankly only prevented from doing so by Stephen, Spock's weird blond Vulcan cousin who has a decided preference for emotion rather than logic. I didn't care in the slightest about him - I would much rather every single bit of his page time were given to Janice Rand (who interested me for the first time ever, it's a Star Trek miracle!) and Uhura, who did a fine job both with mentoring Rand and utilising her musical talents to communicate with another species.