Star Trek: How Much for Just the Planet?
{4.5/5} “‘Allow me to welcome you most sincerely to the free, independent, and unaligned planet of Direidi. My name is Flyter. Hi there.’ He pumped Kirk’s hand. ‘Hi there.’ He shook Sanchez’s hand, then Uhura’s, the rest. ‘Hi there. Hi there. Hi there.’ He paused, wiped his hands and his forehead with a huge red […]
Star Trek: Doctor’s Orders
{4.5/5} “I can leave anybody with the conn that I please, especially a department head and a fellow officer. There’s no need to be in the direct chain of command at all — that’s a common misconception. I could leave an Ensign Third-class with the conn if I liked, and the situation seemed to call […]
Star Trek: The Rift
{4.5/5} “Every single star was an invitation, a personal invitation to him, James T. Kirk. And it would be the height of rudeness to refuse such an unselfish, unqualified invitation. And so he had spent his life accepting those invitations, one after the other.” Star Trek: The Rift by Peter David, published in 1991 Captain […]
Star Trek (season 2)
{4/5} “After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true.” Star Trek season 2, aired in 1967-68 When Spock returns to Vulcan to marry his fiancée things don’t go according to plan — he ends up fighting […]
Star Trek: The Star to Every Wandering
{5/5} “He had loved Edith as he had loved no other woman, either before or after. For the most part, he had found fulfillment each day that he’d been able to step onto the bridge of the Enterprise or the Enterprise-A as its commanding officer, and he still felt that there had been something special […]
Star Trek: Crucible — The Fire and the Rose
{5/5} “‘Edith,’ Jim whispered. Spock felt as though he’d been stabbed. All of the emotions he’d been experiencing in recent days, and all the way back to his second encounter with the Guardian, even back to his first encounter, came charging back. He could focus on only one thought: What have I done?” Star Trek: […]
Star Trek: Crucible — Provenance of Shadows
{5/5} “All McCoy could do now would be to attempt to make this world, this altered Earth, a better place. It would never evolve into the world he had known, but it still existed, right here, right now. He could mourn his former life and the universe he’d once known, but it would do no […]
Star Trek: Discovery (season 2)
{4.5/5} “The Starfleet manual offers no regulatory guidelines for interactions between humans with Klingons grafted to their bones and a ship’s doctor returned from the dead.” Star Trek: Discovery season 2, aired in 2019 The Enterprise is out of commission. Captain Pike comes aboard the Discovery to take over as captain in order to investigate […]
Star Trek: Alien Spotlight
{4.5/5} “The price for revenge is too high. But I think you know this. You’re not on a Cardassian mission. Your group — these Rom Knights — think they are serving Cardassia, but they are not. Cardassia is moving beyond its old ways. We’ve learned from our mistakes.” — Garak Star Trek: Alien Spotlight (2 […]
Star Trek (season 1)
{4.5/5} “I wouldn’t want to slow the wheels of progress… But then on the other hand, I wouldn’t want those wheels to run over my client in their unbridled haste.” — Samuel T. Cogley, attorney at law Star Trek season 1, aired in 1966-67 When the Starship Enterprise goes through the barrier at the edge […]