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Captain Kirk's Guide To Women by John "Bones" Rodriguez
01/04/2008 . Source: Geoff Willmetts 
pub: Pocket Books/Simon and Schuster. 86 page small illustrated softcover. Price: £ 7.99 (UK); $14.00 (US); $16.00 (CAN). ISBN: 978-1-4165-4315-2. Buy Captain Kirk's Guide To Women in the USA - or Buy Captain Kirk's Guide To Women in the UK  check out website: www.simonsays.co.uk and www.startrek.com
This is the kind of book you would buy for a Star Trek fan for Yuletide as a stocking filler in more ways than one. As it was released in February, either you're going to remember it for December or consider it as a birthday gift for someone.
The subject, as if you couldn't guess from the title, is how to pull women the Jim Kirk way, although looking at the bevy of females here which included two androids, I'm not altogether sure how successful you would be.
Nearly fifty years since 'Star Trek' was first shown in the mid'60s and the lothario Kirk is shown as the example of sexual etiquette in the 23rd century. Then again, I doubt if Pickard, Riker, Sisko or even Janeway could be used as an example for such a book as this. Author John Rodriguez is conversant with all of the original TV series and a lot of the time you'd be cross-referencing in your head as to which episodes he's referring to without too much mental gear changing.
That is a good thing, too, cos when all of Kirk's 'conquests' are shown there's a lot of detail except the episode title they came from. A few more pages and it could have covered the ladies from the films. As I doubt a book such as this would be handed to a non-Trek reader that might not be necessary but even so it's a foolish omission.
Another annoying thing is that although the photos on the cover are a nice selection. Within the contents they all have halos encircling the head and shoulders. Whether this was a need by copyright or not, it seemed a shame that we couldn't see the photos as they should be. Less a decoration and more an annoyance.
I suspect this book will be for completists only. It has its moments but the book is a light read and not to be intellectually or even sexually moving.
GF Willmetts
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