'Star Trek's' Captain Kirk writes an autobiography

By Frank Simons LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - He's a hero and he's great at his job, but "Star Trek's" Captain Kirk did abandon his son. Often taking one-line references from episodes of the iconic TV and movie science fiction franchise and building entire storylines, Goodman paints Kirk as a driven, sometimes insecure, absent father, a man who "left his son, for his job," yet was destined to be a Starfleet hero. "Almost everything that's new came out of something that we already were familiar with,"