Redshirt Rabbit (with apologies to Jefferson Airplane) One shirt means you're dead meat And another means you're bald. And the phasers that they...
"They passed a law. Oh, it started very small. In 1950 and ‘60 it was a grain of sand. They began by controlling books of cartoons and then...
Epilogue: STARSHIP VOYAGER BENDARA, KURT. Maquis rebel (paroled). Telfas mining colony, Ceres. BENNET, RICHARD. Spacefleet Ensign. Sydney,...
That's a Ray Bradbury shout-out, specifically Usher II in which government "Moral Climate Monitors" have banned works of fiction. He'd take the...
Lines of crimson death shot from the gun blisters like the colored rays of science-fiction. The fragmentation shells would have barely scratched...
Chapter XII: THE PSIBORG COLLECTIVE Captain Janeway awoke to find herself still trapped inside the cargo rocket, her head throbbing and her limbs...
Janeway quotes from the Jataka Tales and Desiderata, but that's it. There aren't any sci-fi references in this chapter (except for Worf and Q, of...
Chapter XI: BEYOND THE BLACK STAR A docking between two space-vessels of alien design is a maneuver fraught with danger, especially when the...
Never fear. The Soviets were spurred to create a stingless variant of Triffidus after an outbreak of mass blindness caused by black market vodka...
Given that the communications and helm would have to be manned 24/7, you need more than one character for those positions. Rather than add extra...
Chapter X: THE NEEDS OF THE MANY The next few hours were the longest of Captain Janeway's life. The worst moment had been when they returned to...
Well I did say it was a post-atomic melancholy...
Why an observation deck on a freighter though? You'd have to have a reason for those windows, either related to a past use of the vessel, or a...
Yes I was hoping someone would spot that one. I originally had Tom mentioning a sci-fi B-movie he saw where a rocketship travelled...
An ancient castle, alien in architecture yet unmistakable in grandeur, had been erected on the hull under a huge transparent dome. Battlements to...
Chapter IX: THE CARETAKER It was some time before Chakotay and Nee'Lix found their captain and TuV'k on the shore of a sparkling ocean that...
Try the website Atomic Rockets, especially the following links: http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/crew.php...
While Nee'Lix and Zet argued away, Voyager's officers sorted out the liberty arrangements. "Does everyone have their food tester?" asked...
Chapter VIII: THE ARRAY According to Nee'Lix, the space station orbiting the black star had had many names over the millennia, but nowadays most...
As the marines filed out through the hatchway, Janeway sat herself down on a cargo pallet and studied the alien. It (or 'he' Janeway guessed from...
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