BEYOND THE STARS

($24.00; Feb.; 240 pp.; 0-06-105118-7):  What can possibly beat space hero Jim Endicott's previous adventures?  In Step Into Chaos (1999), and its predecessors, he killed his father, got killed himself, then was resurrected and transformed into a godlike entity, the Omega Point.  But since god-Jim went back in time to alter his own past and unkill his father, that all happened in another universe.  So now there are two Jims in two universes undergoing different trials and adventures.  Will they meet?  Stick with Shatner's latest interminable series and you'll find out - probably - eventually….