"I think it will work," Sulu said. He smiled at Scott. "The physics of it are sound." "Aye, physics," Scott complained. "We're basically throwing a rock off the back of the ship, so of course the physics will work. The thing will fall! Not much can go wrong with that."

So yet again, we have a Kirk-centric experience. this time, there's orbital skydiving. Characterisation isn't too much of a problem because apart from Kirk (naturally) and Picard, there's nobody of familiarity (apart from the obligatory appearance of Kirk's old shipmates to pat him on the back and tell him how brilliant he is after the fact). Still, the story is passible and the look into some of Kirk's history is worth the rest of the claptrap.

and poor, poor Captain Picard - can you get any more demeaning? "Fish food. Not quite the shining culmination of my career I'd imagined."