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Star Trek: The Captain’s Daughter
{4.5/5} “But helmsman… steering the ship… looking straight ahead and seeing the stars clustered in front of you… that’s what I was really going out there for, Ling. For the stars. To go out there and lose myself in them.” Star Trek: The Captain’s Daughter by Peter David, published in 1995 Captain John Harriman aboard […]
Star Trek: TNG — The Sky’s the Limit
{4.5/5} “As fear drives our hated and the building of our war machine, we consume the resources that could feed and clothe our people, we misuse the wisdom of our scientists and the labors of our industries, and we extinguish the light fromour dreams of the future. There is no strength in fear. Strength arises […]
Star Trek: TNG — The Devil’s Heart
{4.5/5} “T’Sara had advised him to give up the stone, or at least to stop making use of its powers. Yet, so far he had only taken part in the dreams. Surely there was no harm in that? And perhaps the dreams could show him the way to safety.” Star Trek: The Next Generation — […]
Star Trek: TNG — Pliable Truths
{4.5/5} “If every Bajoran presented themselves as a model inmate, the Cardassians would likely assume there must be illicit activity taking place. Better for the laborers to offer the occasional misdirection in the hopes of keeping their overseers distracted from those things that needed to remain concealed.” Star Trek: The Next Generation — Pliable Truths […]
Star Trek: Lost to Eternity
{4.5/5} “Yet I remind you that we already have significant assets in play on Atraz, including a shuttlecraft, the rescue party, and Captain Kirk’s own demonstrated tenacity and resourcefulness. He has escaped captivity, and survived all manner of jeopardy, on more worlds than I have time to enumerate.” Star Trek: Lost to Eternity by Greg […]
Rift in the Sky
{4.5/5} “This ability we have will save more lives than it risks. Let the Oud reshape the ground. Sona will ‘port to safety. Let our crops fail. We’ll ‘port to another Clan and trade for food. This is the most important Talent ever discovered by Om’ray and we must never fear to use it.” Rift […]
Riders of the Storm
{4.5/5} “The exiles would change whatever Clan they tried to join… Sona offered what she’d never imagined — the possibility of living apart from other Clans, to be themselves, to risk only themselves. To become something new.” Riders of the Storm by Julie E. Czerneda, published in 2008 Aryl and her fellow exiles are headed […]
Reap the Wild Wind
{4.5/5} “Runners dared go beyond where Om’ray were tolerated. Never to trespass on the Oud — no one was that stupid — but where no others would go… Runners weren’t of one family, or one Talent, though those with the ability to sense imminent change were persistently if quietly courted. They were risk takers, not […]
Dollhouse: Epitaphs
{4.5/5} “I’m used to being scared. I’ve been scared ever since my uncle got printed. But I killed people today. And now I feel like a bad guy. Just like the people who killed Uncle Wendall.” Dollhouse: Epitaphs by Andrew Chambliss, Jed Whedon & Maurissa Tancharoen, published in 2012 When the apocalypse happens most people […]
Cat Pictures Please and Other Stories
{5/5} “The element of change, as everyone knows, is Air. They say that every now and then when the wind blows in a certain direction, it can bring an excess of Air into people who’ve never been known for foolishness. So close your doors on those days; shutter your windows. Don’t go out onto the […]