THROWBOOK THURSDAY—OUTSIDE IN MAKES IT SO – Rich Handley

If you’re unfamiliar with ATB Publishing’s Outside In anthologies, you’re missing out on a wonderful set of books aimed at—and written and edited by—fans who throw themselves wholeheartedly into the genre-based television and film franchises they enjoy. In other words, people like me. These are not just standard episode guides. They’re critical essay collections, unique […]

THROWBOOK THURSDAY—OUTSIDE IN MAKES IT SO – Rich Handley

Humble Servant Leadership: A Reflection on Best Destiny’s Captain April – Warp Factor Trek

This is one of the life lessons that Captain Robert April passes down to troubled sixteen-year-old Jim Kirk in Diane Carey’s 1992 novel Best Destiny, a sequel to her 1988 novel Final Frontier. In Best Destiny, April, as Jim’s godfather, shaped and mentored Kirk into the great leader we know from TOS. “Robert” (as April […]

Humble Servant Leadership: A Reflection on Best Destiny’s Captain April – Warp Factor Trek