William Shatner Books in Order

An early biography that tracks William Shatner’s path from Montreal stages through early film roles and the sudden impact of Star Trek, sketching the man behind the captain’s uniform.

An insider’s diary of directing and starring in Star Trek V, packed with on-set stories, production hurdles, and reflections on what worked, what failed, and what he learned in the process.

This novelization follows Kirk and his crew as a renegade Vulcan hijacks the Enterprise to search for God at the galaxy’s center. The familiar film story is expanded with extra character moments and background detail.

In the twenty-second century, ex-cop Jake Cardigan is thawed early from cryo-prison after being framed for dealing tek, an illegal digital drug. Hired by powerful fixer Walter Bascom, he dives back into the underworld to clear his name.

Cardigan and partner Sid Gomez investigate a high-tech research lab where experimental versions of tek are being engineered. When a scientist vanishes and virtual reality spills into real streets, the case becomes a battle over who will own the future.

Now working for private security firm Cosmos, Jake Cardigan takes on the ruthless tek lords who control the drug trade. His hunt forces him to confront old addictions, corrupt cops, and a conspiracy that reaches uncomfortably high into government.

Set in the 1920s, this novel imagines an afterlife contest that pits Harry Houdini against Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. As spiritualists, skeptics, and grieving families clash, the story probes why people are drawn to miracles.

Focusing on the original television series, this memoir revisits the pilot, network battles, tight budgets, and cast tensions. Interviews and anecdotes show how a short-lived show became a lasting cultural touchstone.

Jake’s search for the people who destroyed his family draws him into a cross-border war between rival tek cartels. As bodies fall on both sides, he must decide whether revenge is worth losing the last pieces of his conscience.

A shadowy program promises to end tek addiction forever, but Cardigan suspects the cure hides something worse. Tracking assassins and missing test subjects, he uncovers a plan to turn the digital drug into a subtle tool of mass control.

A behind-the-scenes chronicle of the first seven Star Trek films, from budget woes to casting fights and location disasters. Shatner shares candid stories about making the movies and passing the torch to a new crew.

A new form of tek is being used to hijack corporate networks and financial systems. Jake and Sid race through sprawling mega-cities and off-world colonies to stop a mastermind who can crash economies with a single illegal chip.

When counterfeit tek floods the streets, overdoses skyrocket and Cardigan is hired to find the source. The trail winds through virtual casinos, offshore accounts, and a scheme that turns stolen memories into the ultimate currency.

Facing retirement and the loss of the Enterprise, Kirk is drawn into one last unsanctioned mission to defend the world of Chal. The planet’s rejuvenating secrets test his sense of duty, aging, and desire.

Shatner tours real-world labs to meet scientists turning Star Trek ideas into reality. From warp-drive research to nanotech and AI, he asks what is possible, what is hype, and how imagination helps drive genuine invention.

Seasoned diplomat Benton Hawkes is exiled to the job nobody wants, governor of industrialized Mars. There he finds exploited workers, corporate overlords, and a brewing revolution that could ignite open conflict with Earth.

An elite assassin uses tek-induced hallucinations to mask their hits, leaving Cardigan chasing a killer no witness can clearly describe. To stop the attacks, he may have to plug back into the drug he swore never to touch again.

After his death on Veridian III, Kirk’s body is stolen and he is resurrected by a Romulan–Borg alliance bent on killing Picard. Fighting false memories and control, he must decide where his loyalty truly lies.

A deadly eco-plague strikes across the Federation just as Sarek dies under mysterious circumstances. Kirk investigates links between the outbreaks, his past on Chal, and a shadowy enemy that may be rewriting the rules of life itself.

In the twenty-second century, teenager Jim Endicott discovers his DNA hides a dangerous secret: instructions for a vast organic computer. Branded a fugitive, he flees powerful agencies while trying to choose his own future.

Jim Endicott is drawn into a war between alien fleets and human factions that covet the weapon in his genes. To survive, he must decide who can be trusted with power that could reshape civilization.

Someone has woven tek directly into the global data net, trapping users inside shared hallucinations that can kill. Jake must navigate this lethal virtual maze while his own body is hunted down in the real world.

This edition of Hawkes’s second adventure again finds him fighting to protect Mars from Earth League manipulation. As hidden mind-control experiments surface, he learns that the real battlefield is both political and psychological.

Retired and newly married, Kirk begins seeing his own face where it should not be. His investigation draws him into the Mirror Universe, where an alternate Kirk has plans that could shatter both realities.

Diplomat Benton Hawkes, now prime minister of Mars, battles sabotage, propaganda, and even subliminal brainwashing as Earth powers try to keep the planet’s workers in chains. He must uncover who is literally rewriting his thoughts.

After barely thwarting Emperor Tiberius, Kirk remains convinced his Mirror counterpart survived. When new incursions threaten Starfleet, he and Picard return to the Mirror Universe to face an enemy who knows Kirk’s every instinct.

Built from convention interviews and Shatner’s own change of heart, this book looks at Star Trek fandom from the inside. He explores why people care so deeply about the show and what he has learned from those connections.

The Quest for Tomorrow saga escalates as Jim Endicott confronts mass psychosis and political upheaval triggered by misused group-mind technology. Alliances with alien cultures may be the only way to stop Earth from tearing itself apart.

Still hunted for the weapon encoded in his DNA, Jim Endicott ventures deep into alien territory. What begins as a bid to protect humanity becomes a search for the truth behind the enigmatic beings surrounding Earth.

Kirk faces his Mirror Universe counterpart’s final gambit and a secret reaching back to the ancient Preservers. With realities at stake, he and Picard must decide how far they are willing to go to protect their universe.

Kirk and Picard attempt a quiet archaeological vacation that turns deadly when members of their team are murdered. Cut off from Starfleet, they must survive hostile terrain and uncover an ancient power others will kill to control.

Teen captain Jim Endicott and his ragtag Stone Cowboy crew head to a Kolumban world where a lethal drug and cloning technology threaten their ship. The voyage forces him to confront alien conspiracies and the true cost of command.

Peace talks between the Federation and Romulan Empire erupt in violence, and Spock vanishes in the chaos. Kirk pursues clues across hostile worlds, uncovering a plot tied to ancient myths and a new kind of interstellar war.

In the final Captain’s trilogy novel, an older Kirk confronts a mysterious cosmic threat that has devastated his family and shaken the Federation. Working with Picard and Spock, he must decide what sacrifices leadership truly demands.

Set before Starfleet Academy, this novel follows a teenage James Kirk in San Francisco and a young Spock at the Vulcan embassy. A shared investigation into a deadly conspiracy pushes both toward Starfleet and their intertwined destinies.

This autobiography traces Shatner’s journey from Montreal theatre kid to struggling character actor to iconic captain and beyond. He writes about marriages, money troubles, cult fame, and the odd jobs that kept him going between big breaks.

A graphic-novel style retelling of TekWar, this volume follows Jake Cardigan after his release from cryo-prison as he investigates a missing scientist and is pulled back into the tek underworld he once escaped.

A humorous, loosely structured set of “rules” drawn from Shatner’s career, covering risk-taking, dealing with critics, and owning your public persona. Anecdotes from sets, talk shows, and conventions keep the tone light and self-mocking.

Shatner revisits his fifty-year friendship with Leonard Nimoy, from early guest roles to Star Trek and beyond. He shares behind-the-scenes stories, tensions, reconciliations, and grief after Nimoy’s death in a candid, sometimes painful tribute.

In 2050, eighty-year-old FBI director Samuel Lord commands the Zero-G unit aboard space station Empyrean. Stolen lunar research, unexplained tsunamis, and a silent Chinese outpost force his small team to unravel a plot that could rewrite Earth’s future.

Drawing on a lifetime with horses, Shatner blends barnyard mishaps, training tales, and classic legends to explore why humans bond so deeply with these animals. It celebrates horses’ power to heal, challenge, and quietly transform people.

Samuel Lord and the Zero-G team investigate runaway orbital agriculture experiments and nanite-grown vines that threaten space stations and Earth, while rival powers race to weaponize the technology. It blends near-future science, espionage, and procedural tension.

Part memoir and part life advice, this book looks at Shatner’s decades in show business, near-misses, health scares, and late-career reinventions. He offers frank thoughts on work, aging, relationships, and how to keep engaging with the world.

In this collection of essays, Shatner reflects on awe, mortality, nature, and his brief journey into space. Mixing personal stories and big questions, he urges readers to stay curious and find small moments of wonder every day.