Star Trek: “Q and False” and Other Stories
{4.5/5} “Archer smiled… ‘I’d rather see humanity on a long road to get where we’re going, than take a short-cut.’ He shook his head. ‘No offence, but I don’t want to put myself in debt to a god-like being. I’ve read the classics. I know how those bargains turn out.’” (from “The Offer”) Star Trek: […]
The Last Shadow
{4.5/5} “They also demanded that I supply your real year of birth, since they did not believe my answer, upon which I supplied the birth certificate of the original Peter Wiggin. Try to remember his birthday. Because the real date of your entry into our universe is even less believable than that date in the […]
Worlds of DS9: The Dominion / Ferenginar
{4.5/5} “He tried to help the Link see that their refusal to consider themselves connected to other, non-changeling lifeforms, and their rejection of the possibilities afforded by amity rather than distrust, should be regarded as antithetical to a species that exulted in self-change. The Founders seemed capable of any transformation, he maintained, but not in […]
Worlds of DS9: Trill / Bajor
{4.5/5} “Though she was well acquainted with her people’s penchant for secrecy, she also knew that Trills, like all Federation members, were proud of their free and open society. She had to believe that her people would never throw away the latter because of an habitual attachment to the former.” (from Trill: Unjoined) Worlds of […]
Worlds of DS9: Cardassia / Andor
{4.5/5} “‘You know, Keiko, when you’re brought up to think carefully before you dare to utter even a single word, suddenly being free to say what you like is…’ He had to grope for the right words to express himself here. ‘Well, it’s terrifying,’ he said, at last.” (from Cardassia: The Lotus Flower) Worlds of […]
Agent to the Stars
{4.5/5} “For them, it’s not simply a matter of the most efficient way of doing something, otherwise Joshua would be addressing the UN right now. But there’s that notion the Yherajk have of surrendering to the crucial moment, burned right down into their reproductive strategies. I think that once again, they’re surrendering the moment to […]
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine — Unity
{5/5} “Most people know it, but they let themselves forget. They hang on to the pain because it’s familiar, because to let it go might mean having to change. It’s easier to keep the pain than to ask the questions, to find out why you think what you think, to question why you do the […]
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine — Rising Son
{4.5/5} “He turned back, satisfied that his team was on top of things, and grinned, almost laughed out loud; the eager, frightened, delighted look on Jake’s face was priceless. It was the face that every fortune hunter had but kept hidden, and it did his heart good to see Jake wearing it.” Star Trek: Deep […]
Star Trek: DS9 — Avatar, Book Two
{4.5/5} “At the moment, she felt that she couldn’t possibly be surprised… and she knew from experience that feeling that way was usually when the universe decided to shake things up a little more, to try and find out what a person was created from, clay or sand, adapt or crumble.” Star Trek: Deep Space […]
Star Trek: DS9 — Avatar, Book One
{4.5/5} “‘Hard to port, close in, and fire as soon as we’re in range,’ Ezri said, feeling too many things to sort through, hidden among them a tiny astonishment as the full realization hit — she was commanding the Defiant by memories of Jadzia, but with a confidence all her own.” Star Trek: Deep Space […]