Star Trek: DS9 — Rules of Accusation
{4.5/5} “Quark shrugged. ‘It’s traditional. No Ferengi would be caught dead at a party where he didn’t have to bribe the host to gain attendance.’ He showed her a sample invitation. Neatly printed at the bottom were the initials RSVP, followed by a long string of numbers. ‘This,’ he explained, ‘means Response Signifies Vault Payment.’” […]
DS9: Lust’s Latinum Lost (and Found)
{4.5/5} “Children and adults alike are happiest when the moisture falls in a warm and steady wave. So are the clado, in fact. That’s when their song reaches its most soothing tones, prompting Ferengi spirits — and, more important, Ferengi portfolios — to rise precipitously.” Star Trek: Deep Space Nine — Lust’s Latinum Lost (and […]
Star Trek: Gateways — What Lay Beyond
{4.5/5} “It had felt good to be passionate about something, to want to fight for a cause that was so obviously the right one. The sensation Seven felt inside was an exquisite, heady one. She understood now why revolutionaries were so often willing to give their lives for what they believed in.” (from “In the […]
Star Trek: Gateways — Cold Wars
{4.5/5} “‘No, Admiral. Returning the girl planetside is the option I do not have. Everything else is negotiable.’ ‘This isn’t,’ Jellico said firmly. ‘Commander Burgoyne… arrest Captain Calhoun.’” Star Trek: New Frontier — Gateways: Cold Wars by Peter David, published in 2001 Captain Mackenzie Calhoun of the Excalibur has been ordered into Thallonian space because […]
Star Trek: Gateways — No Man’s Land
{4.5/5} “I had thought that actually traversing No Man’s Land would be the true challenge, but I am now starting to believe that we will encounter more difficulties simply getting along with the rest of this odd caravan. Last night, it was the Todanians. Tonight we have the Hirogen.” Star Trek: Voyager — Gateways: No […]
ST: Gateways — Demons of Air and Darkness
{4.5/5} “I spent the first twenty-six years of my life fighting Cardassians — more than that, I spent all that time hating them. No one knows better than me what horrors they’re capable of, and what they’ve done. And I’m telling you, we have to let them help. If we turn them away, people are […]
Star Trek: Gateways — Doors Into Chaos
{4.5/5} “Everything pointed to the Iconians playing at a larger game, not just selling the technology… They devised wondrous technology, and left on several worlds an influence that survived over two hundred millennia. Why come back now, and why offer to sell their greatest achievement? And if these weren’t the Iconians, how did they get […]
Star Trek: Gateways — Chainmail
{4.5/5} “The legend of Keller is the only force holding us with you. If you want my people to take your orders, then you must show them why. If you let my orders be disobeyed, if you protect him, all your words about treating us as equals will dissolve. You have planets watching you. Planets.” […]
Star Trek: Gateways — One Small Step
{4.5/5} “McCoy made a small noise, as if that was enough to convince him. Kirk had to agree. He almost reached for his communicator to tell Scotty to deactivate the shield. But something wasn’t right. He couldn’t pinpoint it, but this commander was a tad smooth for his taste. She watched him too carefully.” Star […]
Ascending
{5/5} “All the aliens I had met since leaving Melanquin were stodgy disappointments who did not shapeshift or anything… and what is the point of being an alien if you do not have Uncanny Abilities with which to incite terror in other species? If you cannot disrupt the lives and sanity of other races, you […]