Star Trek ENT: Beneath the Raptor’s Wing
{4.5/5} “These survivors were mostly silent, stifling their desultory conversations as Archer and T’Pol advanced slowly through their nearly stationary ranks… As he passed them, Archer could feel the quickly accumulating weight of their gazes falling upon his back, hard stones of summary judgement cast by an army of the unquiet dead.” Star Trek: Enterprise […]
Star Trek: Enterprise — Kobayashi Maru
{4.5/5} “Despite the fact that his working relationship with T’Pol had grown more close, open, and cordial than he had ever imagined possible, there was nobody aboard Enterprise who could fill the void created by Trip’s open-ended absence. Though he knew Trip’s death was merely a ruse… it felt real enough to inspire genuine mourning.” […]
Star Trek ENT: The Good That Men Do
{4.5/5} “A large, livid burn snaked down his neck, and a profusion of other wounds and smudges covered both his flesh and his torn uniform. So this is what it’s like to be dead, he thought, really trying on the idea for the first time. Funny. Doesn’t hurt as much as I thought it would.” […]
Star Trek: Enterprise — Last Full Measure
{4/5} “Even as he grinned in triumph at having broken through at least some of the barriers that lay between him and Chang, shadowy thoughts began creeping into the back of Mayweather’s mind. Once again, he couldn’t help but wonder whether Sub-Commander T-Pol would really consider the coming mission to be ‘appropriate, prudent, and logical.’” […]
Record of a Spaceborn Few
{4.5/5} “The constellations changed as the Asteria continued its unending orbit, but the view from this spot always felt the same. The constancy was a comfort, a reminder that whatever unpleasantness you’d just been through was only a moment, only a blink with a vast, slow splendour.” Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers, […]
Star Trek: Enterprise — Rosetta
{4.5/5} “What is going to happen when we meet up with an alien race that doesn’t have two arms and two legs and doesn’t think like we do, doesn’t organize concepts the way we do?” Star Trek: Enterprise — Rosetta by Dave Stern, published in 2006 The Enterprise comes across aliens who make it clear […]
Star Trek TNG: Indistinguishable from Magic
{4.5/5} “It’s a sad truth, and one with no consolation to it, that someone must always be the last casualty of a war. All too often it’s an even more unfortunate truth that the last casualty of a war occurs after the armistice has been signed.” Star Trek: The Next Generation — Indistinguishable from Magic […]
Crosstalk
{4.5/5} “Marie Claire thought he spent too much time on his smartphone (and not enough listening to her fret about Maeve), Kathleen thought he was too rich and good-looking to still be single and therefore had to be hiding something, and even Maeve, who usually sided with Briddey in family debates, had made a face […]
Counting Heads
{4.5/5} “Bogdan dismissed the bee and continued his stroll along the arcade yelling ‘Desist, desist’ every few meters. The bees weren’t the only annoyance. There were more hollyholo sims than real people, and they cleverly tried to lure him into their public melodramas by asking him for directions to this or that building.” Counting Heads […]
Star Trek: Enterprise — Surak’s Soul
{4.5/5} “This is why we study the teachings of Surak, that we might avoid our natural impulse to wreak violence. We struggle daily, we meditate, we utilize our intelligence to the maximum, all in order to master that impulse.” Star Trek: Enterprise — Surak’s Soul by J. M. Dillard, published in 2003 Archer leads a […]