title: What Would Captain Kirk Do?: Intergalactic Wisdom from the Captain of the U.S.S. Enterprise (Star Trek)
author:  Brandon T. Snider 
description: Brandon T. Snider has written several licensed books for Penguin Young Readers, including <i>What Would Uncle Grandpa Do?</i>, <i>Game Night: Quips' Book of Questions, Puzzles &amp; Games</i>, and <i>Mordecai and the Rigbys: The Experience</i>. This is his first Star Trek book.
zlib_text: ## Prologue
  
  
  Captain James T. Kirk sprawled on the couch in the sitting room of his cabin,
  dozing over a book. The lights flickered and he woke abruptly, startled by the
  momentary power failure and by the simultaneous lurch in the Enterprise's
  gravity. The main shields strained to the limits of their strength, drawing
  all available power in order to protect ship and crew from the almost
  incalculable radiation of another X-ray storm.
  
  
  Kirk forced himself to relax, but he still felt uneasy, as if he should be
  doing something. But there was nothing he could do, and he knew it. His ship
  lay in orbit around a naked singularity, the first and only one ever
  discovered, and Mr. Spock was observing, measuring, and analyzing it, trying
  to deduce why it had appeared, suddenly and mysteriously, out of nowhere. The
  Vulcan science officer had been at his task nearly six weeks now; he was
  almost finished.
  
  
  Kirk was not too pleased at having to expose the Enterprise to the radiation,
  the gravity wa