Computer Guidance in Small Craft

Computer Guidance in Small Craft was a textbook publication dealing with the topic of computer-aided navigation in small spaceships, authored by Orazio Guidal. By the 23rd century, where most reading was done via computer and computer tapes, this volume was a rare printed anachronism that was part of the collection of James T. Kirk. Cadet Kirk had this book, along with several others, in the bosun's locker aboard his first shuttle command, the warp shuttle Spitfire. When Ensign Leonard McCoy was a passenger on Spitfire, he commented on Kirk's propensity for hardcopy paper volumes.