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 […]
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 […]