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The beloved star of Star Trek , recent space traveler, and living legend William Shatner reflects on the interconnectivity of all things, our fragile bond with nature, and the joy that comes from exploration in this inspiring, revelatory, and exhilarating collection of essays.

Long before Gene Roddenberry put him on a starship to explore the galaxy, long before he actually did venture to space, William Shatner was gripped by his own quest for knowledge and meaning. Though his eventful life has been nothing short of extraordinary, Shatner is still never so thrilled as when he experiences something that inspires him to simply say, "Wow."

Within these affecting, entertaining, and informative essays, he demonstrates that astonishing possibilities and true wonder are all around us. By revealing stories of his life--some delightful, others tragic--Shatner reflects on what he has learned along the way to his ninth decade and how important it is to apply the joy of exploration to our own lives. Insightful, irreverent, and with his signature wit and dramatic flair, Boldly Go is an unputdownable celebration of all that our miraculous universe holds for us.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Introduction (p. ix)
• Chapter 9 When I'm Gone (p. 203)
• Epilogue (p. 225)
• Acknowledgments (p. 237)
• Chapter 1 We Belong Together (p. 1)
• Chapter 2 Listen to the Animals (p. 37)
• Chapter 3 Pieces of Humanity (p. 57)
• Chapter 4 It's Round. I Checked. (p. 79)
• Chapter 5 Listen to the Music (p. 97)
• Chapter 6 The Worst and the Best (p. 131)
• Chapter 7 There's Beauty in Everything (p. 153)
• Chapter 8 Your Place in the Universe (p. 177)

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Kirkus Book Review

The latest collection of essays from an actor who has lived well and prospered. It's clear that Shatner (b. 1931) takes himself and his work seriously, but he knows that much of his appeal to younger generations is ironic, that his often exaggerated oratory has an element of self-caricature in it. Even in his 90s, he shows few signs of backing off or slowing down, and he ends this book with the lyric to a spoken-word song he has written for his next album, a piece with funeral instructions: "I Want To Be a Tree." Despite the more-misses-than-hits nature of the author's many attempts at humor, he has somehow found a way to be in on the joke rather than an object of derision--for the most part, at least--making this book very much in the same vein as Live Long And…, his previous middling collection. Here, the author writes about his plans to extend his legacy as a hologram, taking and answering questions from beyond the grave, and he mixes innocence and pompous profundity when he intones, "I am never so thrilled as when the word wow escapes my mouth." Much of the text conveys the author's fairly shallow viewpoints on the marvel of existence, how everything is connected, and how the universe has taken care of a man who has no clear sense of the divine but who has his finger on the pulse of something cosmic. "We are often reminded to stop and smell the roses," he writes. "I have to go further. Stop and smell everything." These essays sometimes loosely connect in the fashion of a memoir, covering plenty of the Star Trek oeuvre (which he treats as if it were Shakespeare) and the multidimensional career that has followed, as well as his four marriages and his love of dogs, horses, and all living things. A series of pieces that are not only all over the map, but all over the galaxy. Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.